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...readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize Macaulay's revision of the Indian penal code? And then, after half a thousand pages, Macaulay's masterpiece plus 20 years of his life still lie ahead-for this is only the first volume from an academic biographer who knows everything and tells all, not ungracefully but sometimes twice...
...issue with conditional amnesty as embodied, for example, in a bill proposed by Republican Senator Robert Taft that would grant amnesty to draft evaders who agree to serve two years in either the armed forces or a civilian service like VISTA. "Such a practice would equate military service with penal servitude," said Benade, "and this is contrary to the history and tradition of our country, which holds military service to be a citizen's duty and privilege...
...levels of privileges. A higher level could be reached only after a prisoner's minutely monitored behavior at the preceding level passed muster. The prisoners' suit claimed unconstitutional violations of due process and privacy, among other allegations. Last month, after court-appointed investigators filed unfavorable reports, U.S. penal authorities finally caved in. The remaining START prisoners were transferred to other institutions last week. In December, the A.C.L.U. also won a court order ending parts of a federal program at Marion, Ill., that prisoners called "psychogenocide" because of its acknowledged goal of breaking troublesome inmates with psychological techniques...
...What recourse do prisoners have when penal discipline goes too far? As punishment for making "noise after hours," three prisoners in the Baltimore city jail were strung up naked from handcuffs, and a fourth inmate was badly beaten when he resisted similar treatment. The quartet sued their jailers for damages, and last week a federal-court jury awarded them $2,000 each. Three-quarters of the total is to be paid personally by Jail Lieutenant Ernest Barbosa and the rest by Guard Donald Brogden. In a joint statement, the inmates' lawyers refrained from trumpeting about a major precedent...
Responsibility for the attack was claimed last 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...