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...assault marked the first time that Communist Poland's martial-law troubles have spilled over into violent protest in the West. It gave Poland's government an opportunity to vilify the suspended Solidarity trade union, only a week after a harsh crackdown on tens of thousands of Polish demonstrators took to the streets to commemorate the second anniversary of Solidarity's founding. Said Warsaw's Communist Party daily Trybuna Ludu: "Solidarity extremists are now switching, as proved by numerous facts, to terrorist activities." But the terrorist action was energetically denounced by spokesmen for Solidarity, who disclaimed...
...author of the crackdown, according to some Western analysts, is Vitali Fedorchuk, who replaced Yuri Andropov as head of the secret police last May. Fedorchuk, who won a reputation for harsh treatment of dissidents when he was the KGB's chief in the Ukraine, is believed to be more sensitive than his predecessor to police complaints that there is too much contact between Soviet citizens and the outside world...
...Israeli rejection of those proposals was harsh and specific. The Cabinet communiqué included a detailed examination of how the Israeli government believes Reagan's proposals deviate from the Camp David accords. In so doing, the Israelis disclosed some details of Reagan's proposals that he did not make public in his speech. For example, the President on television said only that "Jerusalem must remain undivided, but its final status should be decided through negotiations." In his letter to Begin, according to the Israelis, Reagan proposed to let the Arab inhabitants of East Jerusalem vote in elections...
...Wayne Justice, who ordered, among other things, that the prisons provide at least 40 sq. ft. of cell space for each convict. The state has partly complied by putting 3,100 inmates in jury-rigged twelve-man tents. The strict prisons of Texas are not, by Southern standards, atypically harsh. In 30 states, prisons are under court orders to end unconstitutionally cruel conditions and practices, whether inadequately treating sick inmates, improperly ventilating cellblocks or simply jamming in too many prisoners...
...observers on the outside, the ' I ' purpose of prisons is to keep criminals on the inside. To the inmates themselves, prisons are for other things: to kill time; to learn, perhaps; above all, to wait. Life behind walls may be harsh and occasionally dangerous, but it is primarily boring-the undemarcated succession of hours in which the dreariest routines must either be given some importance, however contrived, or be ignored entirely through an effort of will or imagination. Many inmates conclude that the experience of prison makes someone other, and worse, than himself. Perhaps. Surely it makes...