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...orphaned in the timberlands of Australia's Great Divide. Craig returns to the high country to conquer the wild horses responsible for his father's death, and to win the love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg, an eye for women and a proverbial "heart of gold...
Between the book reviews and the science notes, the third gang rape of the past two months. This one occurred in the Charlestown section of Boston, where seven young men have been charged with kidnaping a 17-year-old girl and raping her repeatedly for seven hours in an apartment belonging to one of the men. The incident followed the more widely publicized attack in New Bedford, Mass., some weeks earlier, in which four men raped and tormented a woman for two hours on a pool table in Big Dan's bar, while onlookers cheered. That one was preceded...
Reading of such incidents, women are horrified because inevitably they identify both with the victims in particular and with the entire condition of victimization, of which gang rape may be the harshest instance. But why do men recoil so strongly? The straightforward answer is that the vast majority of men disapprove of rape, and their disapproval is intensified when a gang is involved. Yet the idea of gang rape is repugnant to men for reasons of identification as well. Few men would associate themselves with those who actually "did it to her." But quite more than a few know what...
...Gang rape is war. It is the war of men against women for reasons easy to guess at, or for no reasons whatever, for the sheer mindless display of physical mastery of the stronger over the weaker. In the wake of the reports from Charlestown, New Bedford and the University of Pennsylvania, conjectures are bound to arise about the frustration of contemporary man at the growing independence of women, and there may be some truth to that. But men have never needed excuses to commit rape in gangs. The Japanese in China, the Russians in Germany, the Pakistanis in Bangladesh...
...destruction of someone's will and spirit. No wonder those same soldiers in Viet Nam spoke of dragging girls into the woods "for a little boom-boom." To "bang" a woman remains part of the idiom. The sound is a gun, the body a weapon. In a "gang bang," murder becomes a massacre...