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...attention to the efforts of her public defender lawyers, who have been trying to get her sentence reduced to life, with parole then a possibility after 12½ years. She does not know whether the courts will heed her request, but she dreads the prospect of a long, drawn-out appeal: "If the court says you're guilty and you're going to die, why spend all this money to fight it? Let them carry it out. They will be satisfied, and I will have peace...
Alva Myrdal was appointed Sweden's Ambassador to India in 1955. As the head of Sweden's delegation to disarmament talks in Geneva between 1962 and 1973, Myrdal developed a pointed and somewhat naive cynicism about the intentions of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in their drawn-out negotiations to scale down the arms race. Says she: "They had been playing games with us, and often with their own delegates, pretending those years at the negotiating table were important, when all it was was a kind of occupational therapy. It was the two superpowers who were...
...with a Spanish-American literature paper almost entirely lifted from the work of a famous scholar. When pressed by her professor. Napolitano admitted that more than the passages which had been footnoted belonged to someone else. The paper was that of Josefina Ludmer, almost word for word. Following a drawn-out disciplinary process. Princeton denied her a diploma...
...thousands of Argentines turned out to welcome 189 soldiers and civilians who finally returned home after their capture by the British on April 25 on remote South Georgia Island. There seemed no reason to doubt the resolve of President Galtieri, who warned once again last week that if the drawn-out Falklands battle turned into a broader war, "we will be forced to reply with every means at our disposal." -By George Russell. Reported by Bonnie Angela/London and Barry Hillenbrand/Buenos Aires
Washington policymakers looked on all the pronouncements and maneuvers as initial "posturing" in what may be a drawn-out coalition-building process. Cheered by their apparent success in softening up the rightist opposition, U.S. officials had recovered some of their earlier optimism by week's end. The Administration was "more than hopeful," said a senior official, that whatever ruling coalition emerges will not only pay lip service to the required reforms but will actually carry them out. "It is not who runs the next government that's important," said Everett Briggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter...