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...prepared to come down except as part of an overall peace agreement, Levin and Halevy discovered, although the reasons for remaining vary from kibbutz to kibbutz. Some settlements have been established by religious Jews with visions of recovering all the land encompassed by the Israel of biblical times. Says Gideon Bachau, 24, a former paratrooper who lives at Kibbutz Keshet: "This area is more Jewish than some other parts of Israel. Tel Aviv, for instance, was always Philistine country." Other settlers cling to the Heights for more down-to-earth reasons. Explains Zipporah Harel, whose husband...
Poirot: deceased. Maigret: retired. Martin Beck, Commander Gideon, Inspector West: gone, all gone with the recent deaths of their creators. Of the old breed, only Nero Wolfe is still doing business at the same old stand, his orchidaceous town house in Manhattan, backed and fronted as always by the ineffable Archie Goodwin. Like his corpulent hero, Author Rex Stout, 89, continues to confound the actuarial tables-and his followers. In this latest outing, Stout ups the stakes of the game he plays with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes...
Every high school civics student is taught that "in all criminal prosecutions," the Sixth Amendment guarantees defendants "assistance of counsel." It was not until 1963, however, that the Supreme Court's Gideon decision extended that right to all those accused of felonies in state-court proceedings. Yet most defendants still did not benefit because 90% of them were tried for non-felony offenses in lower state and local courts-the so-called sausage factories of the criminal-justice system. Not until a 1972 decision involving a Floridian convicted without a lawyer of a misdemeanor did the court finally rule...
Died. Jack Hawkins, 62, robust, husky-voiced British actor often cast in the role of a steadfast military man (Bridge on the River Kwai) or a true-blue police inspector (Gideon of Scotland Yard); following a long battle with throat cancer; in London. In 1966 Hawkins lost his larynx to cancer. Last April, hoping to regain his full voice, he volunteered to undergo an experimental procedure in Manhattan for the surgical implantation of an artificial voice-box, but his throat never healed...
Alger was no Charles Dickens, but he shared Dickens' social indignation, if not his gift for expressing it. "Fair" and "just" are two of his favorite words, and genuine feeling enters his prose when he describes a skinflint like Snobden or a hypocrite like Gideon Chapin, his chief clerk- Alger's American Murdstones and Uriah Heeps...