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Thirteen states have now abolished the death penalty, in whole or part. But while the rest of the country is reluctant to discard it, endless appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. At the beginning of last year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the...
On the Diplomatic Nose. The Russian embassy in Peking bore the brunt of the Chinese assaults. Since Chinese students and Russian police clashed two weeks ago in Red Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a...
* Bowie, on leave from the University to become Counselor in the State Department, and Henry A. Kissinger have been conducting extended projects on the nature of international systems and on the ways in which varying concepts of the international environment influence the making and execution of foreign policy.
The master spirit of this society is the convict Harcamone, in solitary confinement, awaiting the guillotine. The execution, described by an inmate as "making two of 'Pretty Boy,' " dominates the book. Harcamone is in everybody's mind, and he is the principal figure in the homosexual love...
Joan Baez thinks so. In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being...