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...Illinois, death row is up on a bluff in a sandstone prison opened in 1878. The 49 current inmates have a 19th century landscape artist's view-the Mississippi River and miles of rich farmland beyond-except for the bars and razor wire. Menard Correctional Center (pop. 2,600) is the principal industry of Chester, Ill. (pop. 8,000). The inmates, two of whom are scheduled to be electrocuted this spring, are alone in their cells for at least 21 hours a day. When they are in transit, once a day to the law library and once...
...James Menard, a spokesman for the State Department's East Asia Bureau, said the treaty specifically rules out extradition for political purposes...
...asked the Provost, Walter Rosenblith, to revoke permission for the event because some of the advertising for the event failed to bear the logo of "MIT Seekers'," the official sponsors. The posters bore only the imprint of "Jews for Jesus," a movement not recognized at MIT, according to Louis Menard, special assistant to the Provost, who cited both technical and moral grounds for cancelling the event...
...Savage Menard...
Regular Payoffs. Though Pratte was known to have had a hand in almost all airline decisions, down to the choice of the plastic forks for in-flight meals, he insists that he knew nothing about Menard's actions-and the evidence supports him. Yet last month Tory M.P. MacKay documented charges that the airline had been regularly paying off Canadian travel agents' "fraudulent" commission claims. What he means is illegal kickbacks on tickets. Pratte's reluctant resignation soon followed...