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Invoking blessings on the country, John Paul mentioned the casualties of war, the sick and the bereaved, but, to the disappointment of many Argentines, omitted any direct reference to another category of victims: the desaparecidos. The "disappeared ones," variously estimated to number from 6,000 to 24,000, vanished during...
The decision by California's three-member board of prison terms was harsh but expected. Sirhan Sirhan, 38, the lone killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, had earlier been scheduled for parole on Sept. 1, 1984. But public outrage prompted an appeal by the Los Angeles district...
The surprising outbreak of protest, by far the largest demonstration against the regime since martial law was declared last Dec. 13, was hardly a morale booster for Poland's junta leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in...
In the 1978 attorney general's race. Burke's opponent Deukmejian, made frequent reference to her stand on the deat penalty. Although she had never taken an active stance on the issue. Burke explains, "I had voted to substitute life imprisonment without possibility of parole for the death penalty, and...
In connection with your review of Pinball, I would like to inform you that I have not "supported and later repudiated the parole of Convicted Murderer Jack Henry Abbott" [March 22]. As president of American PEN (1973-75), I corresponded with Mr. Abbott, who was part of PEN'S...