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...limit." For almost a year now, the black and white communities of Oakland, Calif., arrayed against each other in uneasy enmity, have heard the words with grim fascination. The threat was made by the friends of Huey P. Newton, the 26-year-old ex-convict who heads the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. And the Black Panthers have caught the public eye as the most extreme of the black extremists...
...rest, life on the government side frequently turns out to be far less rosy than pictured. Tagged forever by a tiny asterisk on their ID cards, they often cannot get the jobs that the government has promised. "It's a little like hiring an ex-convict," says one Chieu Hoi official. Even if an able hoi chanh lands a job, he must contend with the jealousy of fellow workers and the hatred engendered by more than 20 years of fighting. A typical reaction is that of one South Vietnamese: "Why should we take the risk of making friends with...
...this cruel narrative that a sentence of death by torture (500 lashes of the cat-o'-ninetails amounted to just that) could be handed out by a kangaroo court of Marine officers as casually as a parking fine would be imposed today. Scarred, starved and brutalized, the convict sub-world could credibly circulate the malicious scandal that the cattle belonging to the officers' ruling caste had died of pox contracted through bestial sexual commerce with their owners...
...story's hero is given what might be called Eichmann's choice: do evil for duty's sake or rebel. Inevitably, there is a convict rebellion; inevitably, it is suppressed by slaughter, in which Halloran must fire (though he fires high), and he later helps a leader of the rebellion to escape. Inevitably, his girl hangs, and he hangs. It is as economical, as predestined as that. The last paragraph is visible from the first page...
...plenty of room to accommodate large families. Each apartment has three bedrooms, and each is equipped with a kitchen, food, linen and TV. There are no guards to interrupt the family's privacy, and for the duration of the visit the prisoner is allowed to put away his convict's uniform and wear his own clothes. Common law wives are not permitted so far, but the possibility is still under discussion. The intent of the program, explains Governor Ronald Reagan, is to "develop family strengths to sustain ex-inmates as they complete the transition from prison...