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Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, said yesterday that in order to convict the five, the government must prove that it was their specific intention to obstruct the operations of selective service and that this intention was carried out by direct solicitation and incitement rather than by just general public discussion...
...writing about convicts, as in writing about anything else, there are few substitutes for experience. Malcolm Braly did a stretch for armed robbery at San Quentin, and knows only too well that prison is the only world a convict has. Cons either adapt to it or it destroys them. In On the Yard, this inescapable fact is driven home by the sadistic breaking of "Chilly Willy," a boss con who traffics in cigarettes and Benzedrine inhalers. Prison officials frame him in a homosexual plot, and he is shunted into the psychiatric ward. Though a swift, engrossing narrative...
...parents don't love him-and rightly so. Old-fashioned as it may seem, children still need discipline, guidelines-even the supra-self imperatives of religion. In Seattle, a permissive father's 14-year-old daughter who had been slipping out at night to date a paroled convict was straightened out only after a community-relations officer bluntly told her father that he had to show some stern authority. "The girl was screaming silently, 'Help me; make me stop this,' " said the officer. "What she wanted was security-a dad behind her. She wanted...
Among Che's possessions they found a 30,000-word diary, written in his own hand in Spanish and detailing all his activities from the time he arrived in Bolivia in 1966 almost up to the day of his capture. The government used excerpts from the diary to convict French Agitator Jules Regis Debray for aiding the guerrillas. It also arrested some 20 Bolivians who were mentioned as collaborators. Then, once the political usefulness of the diary had been exhausted, it was put up for sale...
Three separate private and official investigations turned up the facts that prompted the grand jury action. So far at least three possible murders have been uncovered. One convict was tied to his cot and burned to death behind the locked gate of his cell; another man was found hanged by his belt after he begged to be moved from his cell for fear of being killed; a third inmate was allegedly beaten to death. The stories of two former inmates, reported in the Chicago Sun-Times, suggested that murder was merely the end result of the constant brutality and venality...