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...Janice Wylie, a Newsweek research assistant and niece of Author Philip Wylie, and her schoolteacher roommate, Emily Hoffert, were sadistically beaten and stabbed to death in their Manhattan apartment. Picked up eight months later for questioning about another crime, Whitmore, a black laborer, had a picture of a white girl on him that looked to police like Miss Wylie. Within hours, interrogators had extracted a confession not only to the Wylie-Hoffert murders, but also to another stabbing murder and to an attempted rape...
...current issue of Newsweek magazine contains an article describing current efforts by wives of Pakistani POWs to make people aware of the plight of the prisoners. The article says that they have followed the pattern of their "American counterparts...placing full-page ads in the Western press, touring the U.S. and Europe and buttonholing every foreign newsman they can find to tell their story...
...only bargaining point that Pakistan's President Bhutto can resort to is the 160,000 Bengali detainees being held in Pakistan. And, according to the current Newsweek article, "Bhutto fears that if he recognizes the Dacca regime, the Bengalis and the Indians will only demand more concessions...
...Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta and, as the dying High Lama, Charles Boyer, of all people. It is a long way from the Casbah...
Chomsky said that Henry Kissinger '50 distorted the January Paris agreement on Vietnam and that even the sophisticated press like Newsweek "bought Kissinger's fabrications hook, line and sinker...