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...catalyst of these emotions is Mumia Abu-Jamal, 41, a prizewinning journalist. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 p.m. on Aug. 17 for a crime he insists he did not commit: the 1981 slaying of police officer Daniel Faulkner. Sympathizers around the globe from Dublin to Soweto hail him as a political prisoner punished for taking journalistic aim at politicians, police and the prison system (most recently in a book entitled Live from Death Row). If he is put to death, they argue, he will be the first American since Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...prosecution's case, both then and now, begins with a traffic violation. Just before 4 a.m. on Dec. 9, 1981, Faulkner stopped a Volkswagen going the wrong way on a one-way street. The driver was William Cook, Abu-Jamal's brother. The prosecution contends that when Faulkner tried to handcuff Cook, Abu-Jamal, who was moonlighting in the vicinity as a taxi driver, jumped from his cab and ran to his brother's defense. By this account, Abu-Jamal shot Faulkner in the back. When the policeman returned fire, hitting Abu-Jamal in the chest, the journalist straddled...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known as South America's William Faulkner with good reason. Both added new territory to the map of fiction. Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha is an imaginary county that contains nearly all one needs to know about the old South, the Lost Cause and the rise of the scalawag class. Garcia's Macondo is a conjured region of Colombia's Caribbean coast that holds the essence of Latin America's ruinous history. The power of these microcosmic worlds brought Nobel Prizes to both men and ensured their subsequent work the utmost attention...
...Faulkner endured but did not prevail after Stockholm. Booze and boredom can be cited for his declining powers. Garcia, on the other hand, has gone on to get the most out of his literary property. His epic One Hundred Years of Solitude took more than 20 years to fully develop. Since then, he has spent his energies Macondoizing-turning his broad conception into small, enchanting units. Nearly all the characters of his shorter subsequent books could have been folded into the pages of Solitude...
...Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills in the absence of men on the powder-puff campus of Converse." TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark...