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...nothing else, Pasqualini's captors insist on form. The inmates are kept near starvation and Pasqualini is horrified by the sight of his body in a mirror: His skin sags slack and bruised from contact with the communal plank bed. Nonetheless, when someone filches food, it cannot be from hunger, and he is "struggled." After three days of hooting, Pasqualini begs relief from the warder for everyone involved: "He admits he stole the bread. He was hungry. Isn't that enough? Do we have to make him say he is a dirty bourgeois because he was hungry?" The warder responds...
Klammer, Italian Herbert Plank, 21, and Swiss Veteran Bernhard Russi, 27, should dominate the downhill schuss. "Go for maximum speed, but never force it," says Russi. Forcing it, however, is Klammer's credo. The straighter-and steeper-the course, the better Franz feels. He likes a sheer drop of ice, so Innsbruck's curvy Patscherkofel Trail is not ideal for him. Two Canadian daredevils, Dave Irwin and Ken Read, have recently scored upsets in European events...
...frontal assault on them could turn into a major issue for the Democrats in next year's presidential campaign. Indiana Senator Birch Bayh last week became the ninth Democrat to announce his candidacy, and he made a proposal to break up the oil companies a prominent plank in his platform. He has already held hearings on his own bill to dismember the majors...
Unlike most of his fellow councilors, Danehy is a strong supporter of the universities in Cambridge. He feels they work well with the city and are an integral part of it. Something else rare for an Independent, Danehy has a small pro-student plank: the universities, he said, should not be taxed by the city because the costs would only be passed on to the students...
Control Fertility. The American delegation had lobbied for an amendment proposing that governments grant women complete freedom to "control their fertility." Though abortion was never mentioned, Third World women voted down the amendment as too radical. They passed, however, a surprisingly liberal plank stating that "individuals and couples" should have the means and the right to determine the spacing and number of their children...