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Khaki-Clad Knight. The scene in the Khartoum courtroom last August was memorable for more than its drama. It marked the first time that a white mercenary had ever been brought to trial in Africa. Last week the tribunal rendered its verdict: the German-born Steiner, 42, was guilty of aiding the 15-year-old rebellion of black southern Sudanese against the northern Arab government. Steiner was sentenced to death, but President Jaafar Numeiry immediately commuted the sentence to 20 years' imprisonment...
...what his real intentions are. Peretz said, "I think he wants to be President, but he doesn't think he's indispensable. He may think he's better than the other candidates being talked of now. Those of us who worked for McCarthy made him into a white knight and made his every failing a maximum sin. I do not understand why the liberals feel so bitter about...
...time as unobtrusively as possible is also the wish of the average inmate. He seeks only to survive his sentence, accumulate clean time and leave. Escape is on his mind, but it is seen more as a moral right than as a viable alternative. A poem by Ethridge Knight, a black writer who did eight of a 20 in the Indiana State joint at Michigan City, describes one of the most powerful deterrents to escape...
...people but making few friends by imposing rigid discipline on his staff and summarily firing such stars as Baritone Robert Merrill and Maria Callas. Austrian by birth, British and American by achievement, Bing was given the highest accolade of his career last June when the British government made him Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. But in New York, familiarity had bred discontent. All the more surprising when Sir Rudolf-who will retire at the end of this season-walked onstage at the Met opening to make a minor announcement and was greeted by a standing ovation...
...turned up a scattering of sour gripes. The Chicago Tribune shrugged off the Sun-Times disclosures as a "rehash" because some of its material had previously been published elsewhere. Boston's Herald Traveler ignored the revelations of the rival Globe. Detroit News Editor Martin Hayden, beaten by the Knight's competing Free Press, complained that the Pentagon study was "only offered to the so-called antiwar papers." And the Houston Post did not even mention the dis closures until Attorney General John Mitchell moved against the Times, four days after the story broke. The initial reaction of Post...