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...week by the People's Revolutionary Army, or E.R.P., a Marxist terrorist group that numbers about 2,000 guerrillas. The attack came on the eve of parliamentary debates on a new penal code that would clamp down on terrorist activities; for example, it would more than double the maximum sentence for extortion (to ten years). The code, which was approved at week's end, is an emotional issue among the already divided supporters of aging President Juan Perón, 78; they are torn between a concern for protecting civil rights and a recognition that terrorism is getting...
Beyond restoring the canal to its pre-June 1967 condition, Egypt faces a billion-dollar decision: whether or not to widen and deepen the waterway to accommodate the new larger ships, including some supertankers. The canal now can handle ships with a maximum draft of 38 ft.-70,000-ton craft carrying full loads of cargo and 140,000-tonners riding empty. An enlarged canal could take fully loaded ships with a draft of 71 ft. and a weight of 260,000 tons, or any ship now afloat empty...
...suggested a much more modest proposal for a northern-New England, small center in cooperation with a new Federal Bureau of Prisons unit which would include many other programs. The reason for suggesting this in the north is because New Hampshire and Vermont are moving to construct new maximum security facilities to replace their old, obsolete prisons. This new program could be a vast improvement over current conditions and would deal only with selected violent offenders, not for all "troublemakers" of all kinds. A useful model suggested in the report for this approach we found at the small security treatment...
...true that as community programs are developed, as the population of the maximum security prisons are reduced, the remainder is a hard core of inmates needing high security. We are now in need of new programs, new methods to deal with these inmates more humanely and without repressive methods. The report specifically recommends extensive civil rights safeguards and recommends against use of confinement and punishment as an answer to these problems...
Stethan Churover, professor of psychology and brain science at MIT, said, "Behavior modification is similar to the systems of reward and punishment which prisons have used for years. It is simply more organized, with a theoretical background and more powerful techniques. They have changed the words but kept the maximum security. Butner [a federal prison which used behavioral modification theory] does not have guards but counselors, not cells but modules...