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...need of repair. One reform is suggested by Osborn Elliott, dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism: Let no editor "get off the hook by oversubmitting" let editors narrow their own entries, "and face their own internal politics more directly." For the Washington Post, Ombudsman Green had a harsher recommendation: "The scramble for journalistic prizes is poisonous . . .Maybe the Post should consider not entering contests...
...reform our criminal justice system and get control of violent crime without becoming too severe, then let's do so. But if all our reforms prove futile, then we will have to resort to harsher measures. Otherwise the American people out of desperation will eventually have to sacrifice their rights and liberties for the safety and security of an authoritarian state...
...speech on crime's "reign of terror" at the American Bar Association convention [Feb. 23] was characteristically wishy-washy. At the same time that he cited the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences, he told us the war on crime "will not be won simply by harsher sentences...
...France and take refuge in Italy, at the home of the latter's mother, that the picture comes alive. For these are the backward boondocks, where women are expected to toil for their keep. Poor Albin, forced to live not a fantasy of femininity but one of its harsher realities, finds himself scrubbing floors and harvesting grain-all of which distinctly goes against his grain. He is also pursued by an inarticulate rustic type, who is apparently smitten by the hearty figure he cuts in a peasant skirt. There are good laughs in this unlikely obsession...
...documents indicated that two U.S. officials, William Daugherty and Malcolm Kalp, were CIA officers. In addition, a notation ("Show to Tom A.") in the margin was taken by the militants as evidence that another embassy official, Thomas Ahern, was also connected with the agency. The three Americans suffered harsher treatment than most hostages...