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...happy ending seemed in store for the distraught family of Patty Hearst - though the week began on a distinctly optimistic note. Relieved by the Symbionese terrorists of their original demand for a "sign of good faith"- a monumental food giveaway to every low-income or aged person or ex-convict in California, which could cost up to $400 million - Randolph Hearst proceded to outline a more modest offer. It was a food-distribution plan, called "People in Need," or PIN, modeled on a highly successful Washington State program created in 1970 to provide basic groceries for families that could...
...terror whom he would meticulously interview for the next 23 years. He was struck by a bitter paradox: prison offered the possibility of discussing freely what was unthinkable "outside." Meetings with prisoners led him, for the first time, to question his faith in Marx and Lenin. One old-time convict, a former associate of Lenin's, told him: "You're a mathematician. Don't forget Descartes. Subject everything to doubt. Everything...
...Ujifusa said he did not think the chances for a conviction in the Senate were good. A coalition of conservative southern Democrats and western Republicans could probably muster enough votes to stave off the two-thirds majority needed to convict a president and remove him from office, he said...
Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...
When you come right down to it, the CRR is just a kangaroo court where the Faculty can try people it dislikes according to rules that let it convict whenever it wants to. It's a kangaroo court the Faculty doesn't use or seem to need much any more--in view of the lack of student demonstrations in the last couple of years--but that doesn't make having it around any more palatable, or make legitimizing it by putting students on it any more sensible...