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James Thompson, the Thailand silk millionaire who has been missing since March; of a brutal beating inflicted by an unknown assailant in the bedroom of her mansion 15 miles west of Wilmington, Del. Her death was as mysterious as her brother's disappearance: there was no sign of forced entry, and none of her valuables was missing...
...trying to help. All three become ruinously involved with a right-wing tycoon who controls several top city officials and now wants to lead a cryptofascist "moral" crusade. Stone's theme is the inextricable grip of the underworld on its inhabitants; he draws a sure-handed diagram of brutal power and its victims...
...medicine man has steadily tightened his reign of terror. And ever since last April, when two bombs rocked downtown Port-au-Prince during a na tional party celebrating his 60th birthday and his tenth year in power, Papa Doc has been exercising his authority with a vengeance. In four brutal months...
...supposedly challenging church doctrine, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431; so were Czech Reform Leader John Hus in 1415 and the impassioned Dominican Savonarola in 1498 (he was hanged first for good measure). In recent history, however, punishments for heresy have grown less brutal, and the charge has only rarely been invoked. Doctrinal disputes are increasingly resolved by debate within a church, or by the dissidents leaving of their own accord. The last time the Episcopal Church resorted to heresy procedure was in 1924, when it was employed to depose a retired and aged bishop...
...Francisco's hippies live by flower power. Last week the city's psychedelic enclave, the Haight-Ashbury district, was shaken out of its roseate trance by the brutal murders of two hippie drug peddlers...