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...very least, a measure of the bankruptcy of the U.S. prison system. Yet many if not most Americans seemed to feel that the attack was legally and morally justified. The Atlanta Constitution, in a singularly savage editorial, suggested execution of "the animals of Attica" for trying to impose "kangaroo justice" on the hostages...
...yourself guide to revolution by Yippie Abbie Hoffman. It has earned hefty profits from 200,000 customers who have ignored the title and forked over $1.95 each. But does Abbie really deserve all the loot he is getting? Not according to Tom Forcade, who charged before a counterculture kangaroo court of Manhattan radicals that Abbie owes him some $8,500 for editing and helping publish the book. And not according to Izak Haber, who says he conceived the idea for Steal, did 90% of the research, wrote a 700-page manuscript that Abbie merely edited, and was promised...
...Londonderry and half a dozen smaller towns in Ulster, rounding up some 300 suspected members of the I.R.A. "We are acting," said Faulkner, "not to suppress freedom but to allow the overwhelming mass of our people to enjoy freedom from fear of the gunman, of the nightly explosion, of kangaroo courts and all the apparatus of terrorism." Then in a mild concession to Catholic opinion, he slapped a six-month ban on all parades, including the potentially explosive Apprentice Boys of Derry march scheduled for last week...
...Students Day, Plattsburgh Day. The day has also come when the baggy woolen uniforms of old are giving over to the pajama-like stretch-nylon duds worn by the Pittsburgh Pirates. In Oakland, Vida Blue & Co. turn out in uniforms of Kelly green and California gold with kangaroo-leather spikes dyed wedding-gown white...
...John Bear, 33, a freelance writer, erstwhile adman, and co-inventor of the once popular Beethoven sweatshirt. Having sweated out a real doctorate in communications at Michigan State University, he found himself feeling less than charitable each June as he read about such instant academics as Dr. Captain Kangaroo, Dr.Bob Hope and the late Dr. Dario Toffenetti, a Manhattan restaurateur honored by the University of Idaho for "promoting . . . the Idaho potato...