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Steven Allen Butler, 28, a Houston shoeshine man, faced a grim future. Butler, already on probation for an indecency conviction involving a seven-year-old girl, confronted a possible life sentence for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old neighbor. Last week a Texas judge approved Butler's request to be surgically castrated rather than go to prison. The victim's family, who knows Butler, approved of castration to spare the girl from testifying at a trial...
PRIVATE LIVES. It seemed impossible anything could erase the grim memory of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton mangling Noel Coward's comic souffle of marriage, but Joan Collins far outdoes them in ickiness in this overdressed, undertalented Broadway revival...
...from United Press International and reported in New York before moving to Rome. Perhaps the overseas experience did it, but what , she likes best about Miami is the exotic, not-quite-America feel of the place. Is this the South Florida portrayed in TIME's grim "Paradise Lost?" cover story of 1981? Booth reports that guns and drugs remain big local businesses but that "Miami is no longer the nation's murder capital, or even its money- laundering capital. Miami Beach is a symbol of change. These days they're shooting models ((with cameras)), not criminals, in trendy neighborhoods...
...will not address all forms of discrimination. "If you have cancer," says Irene Card, insurance adviser to the NCCS, "no one wants to sell you health or life insurance." The situation is so grim that many doctors advise their patients who have coverage through their employer (or their spouse's employer) to never, ever change jobs. This leads to predicaments known as "job lock" or "marriage lock...
Pretoria, 4 p.m. Piet Rudolph, 54, a grim, potbellied former policeman wearing a khaki uniform with swastika-like emblems, slips into an empty basement restaurant. Run by a trusted friend, it is one of the places where he can hide if the police are looking for him. He prefers to stay in the shadows with the lights off as he settles into a corner table...