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Just offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most dreaded penal colony. A short distance away, piranha-infested rivers course through the rain forest. Yet out of this equatorial backwater on the steamy coast of French Guiana last week roared a gleaming, cream-colored three-stage rocket emblazoned with the flags of eleven European nations. The fiery liftoff, heard for miles around, was a noisy, jubilant awakening for an independent space effort in faraway Europe...
...created to help train prison personnel "for the sensitive role they should perform." Burger admitted that his proposals might not, in the end, really succeed in helping more released prisoners go straight, but, he pleaded, "we must try." Burger's proposals clash with the experience of most penal officials, who have virtually abandoned rehabilitation as a practical possibility in prisons...
...proposals that hold the most prom ise in experts' eyes, like speedy trials and penal reform, are widely deemed to be too expensive ever to come to pass...
...Mamedov, press officer at the Soviet embassy in Washington, said yesterday that his government would probably not allow Dershowitz to attend the trial. Although Mamedov added that Brailovsky "engaged in anti-Soviet propoganda, spread gossip and slandered the Soviet system,"--all crimes under "a special section of the Soviet penal code"--Dershowitz said Brailovsky faces trial "because he is a Jewish human rights activist...
...such terms as ailurophobia (fear of cats) and erythrophobia (fear of blushing) may be added brownophobia (fear of other Governors) or worse, delanophobia (fear of fear itself). Visitors are bound to watch their language as well. Few will mention penal reform...