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DIED. Arturo Umberto Illia, 82, courtly, honest and respected President of Argentina from 1963 until his ouster in a 1966 military coup; of lung disease; in Cordoba City, Argentina. A country doctor by profession, he was elected to the National Assembly in 1948 and dared openly to oppose the dictatorship of Juan Perón. On this national reputation, he was elected President, but his ineffectual administration could not reverse the country's economic slide or prevent the inevitable takeover by disgusted officers...
Gandhi is enjoyable largely because of its ability to evoke what P. R. men call the sweep of history. The excitement of masses of people in a huge flux-the same kind of excitement one finds in Reds or which David Lean Created in. say. Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago is present in abundance and animates Gandhi. Long shots of a crowd standing with umbrellas in a heavy downpour chanting for Gandhi or of converging columns of people marching behind the Mahatma as he marches to the sea to defy the government drive in this impression convincingly...
Wilkerson's first trial ended in a hung jury, but the second resulted in his conviction. [For reasons of strategy, prosecutors limited charges to the murder of the doctor.] Says Sherman Ross, now a judge, who represented Wilkerson both times: "The district attorney's office good-old-boyed him into a death penalty." For his part, Wilkerson tries to make the best of life on death row: "It takes a great deal of personal effort to not become hard within yourself and hate the free world...
Encouraged by a national rise in religious fundamentalism and political conservatism, the so-called "Right-to-Life" forces have proven unscrupulous in recent years in their campaign against abortion. One tactic has been violence. Several abortion clinics have been torched in the past year alone, and a doctor and his wife, heads of an Illinois clinic, were kidnapped for more than a week by anti-abortion fanatics last summer...
...American police departments under control and in line with reality seems to be picking up steam in a few places. With new guidelines on the use of deadly force. Flint's police have begun making progress in shooting less often at the unarmed and the innocent. As one Flint doctor involved in police issues put it. "Police have often precipitated riots, and the police here want to avoid that...