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Danton the latest film by Andrzej Wajda (Man of Iron), sees the upheaval from the moderate perspective. Wajda retells the familiar story of Georges Danton, a popular Parisian killed by the revolution he helped create. Danton's attempt to slow down the ruthless waging of the revolution threatened Robespierre and...
James David ("Cowboy") Autry, 29, spent much of last Tuesday talking calmly with a Presbyterian minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with...
At the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Byron White, who oversees the Fifth Circuit, was standing by for a possible new plea in the Autry case. While the circuit court's opinion was being read into a Supreme Court tape recorder, Alvin Bronstein, executive director of the A.C.L.U.'s...
As the police reconstructed it, all five were abducted from the restaurant following an after-hours robbery the weekend before last. The thieves apparently ordered the five to walk 120 yds. down an oilfield service road and lie face down side by side. Then they pumped bullets into their victims...
Formidably acute and full of zest for life, she found no event too humble for her observation: haymaking, a ramble in the woods, the delight of fresh Breton butter. At the same time she produced brilliant set pieces of aristocratic life: Fouquet's trial and imprisonment on dubious evidence...