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One poem in the Advocate collection stands out as a bright example of intention happily wedded to execution: Jean Boudin's "Checkers." On one level it is a word-game played in nonsense verse with a vivaciously comic sense for awkward syntax and incongruous internal rhyme. Boudin writes for the...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: Opening Up the Advocate | 10/2/1971 | See Source »

With the riot and its aftermath still shrouded by secrecy, rumor, half-truths and untruths, the nation was sorely split in trying to decide just why it happened and who was to blame. Since most of Attica's prisoners are black, many blacks saw the event as yet another manifestation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

WAS THERE ANY ALTERNATIVE TO THE ASSAULT? Certainly, if hostages were being killed, force had to be applied. Officials were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the guards were in imminent danger of execution. Waiting could indeed have resulted in more deaths. But there is simply no certainty of that. Criminologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: War at Attica: Was There No Other Way? | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

Fans of Mission: Impossible or The Great Escape could best appreciate the precision planning and bold execution of the Joel Kaplan caper (TIME, Aug. 30). Consider the facts: an American serving a murder sentence in Mexico was plucked from behind the walls of a heavily guarded prison, transferred to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVENTURE: More on the Kaplan Caper | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

Word of the summary execution quickly spread throughout Yemen. Harazi's family refused to bury him unless action were taken. President Abdul Rahman Iryani, a frequent rival of General Amri, reportedly wanted to try the general for murder. So did many members of Yemen's first elected legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEMEN: Crossed Wires | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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