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...interim three prisoners were stabbed or strangled to death by fellow inmates who suspected them of serving as informants. Moore agreed to allow representatives of the rioters to air their grievances about living conditions in the penitentiary, which have improved little since a state circuit judge declared them unconstitutional in 1983. The Governor also promised amnesty for those who took part in the uprising--but not for anyone who participated in the murders. CHICAGO Redrawing the Political...
...that seriously overstates the case. Present and former trial lawyers populate state legislatures and Congress in numbers large enough to wield formidable blocking power. There is a question, too, of whether the courts would uphold any serious tort reforms that might be enacted. One omen: the Cook County, Ill., circuit court last year ruled that major parts of a newly enacted law stretching out damage awards in medical malpractice cases violated the Illinois constitution...
DIED. Henry J. Friendly, 82, judge for 27 years on the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals; an apparent suicide (by pill overdose) one year after the death of his wife of 55 years; in New York City. An Eisenhower appointee, Friendly wrote lucid and precedent-setting opinions on civil, criminal and constitutional issues that earned him a reputation (along with the late Learned Hand, among others) as one of the greatest U.S. jurists never to sit on the Supreme Court...
DIED. Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
Until his death in 1980, Cy Taillon was known to the initiated as the "World's Greatest Rodeo Announcer." Around the circuit, which could extend from Puyallup, Wash., to Baton Rouge, La., and into Madison Square Garden itself, no exhibition of bronco riding or calf roping seemed quite complete without Taillon's booming, animated commentary. He became something more than legendary to those who followed the sport. Said one admirer: "I don't know what God looks like, but I know what He sounds like." In 1977 his daughter, Cyra McFadden, created a literary stir with her first novel...