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...closing ceremony took place at Judaism's holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. There, the 4,000 from abroad were joined by an equal number of Israelis. As 6,000 candles flickered-each representing a thousand Jewish victims-Prime Minister Menachem Begin made an impassioned Zionist plea to the visitors to "come and bring your children to Israel." With that, the survivors dispersed, singing the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah-The Hope. -By Patricia Blake, Reported by Marlin Levin/Jerusalem
Having signed a bill nixing exemptions from jury duty on the basis of certain types of employmentt Jerry Brown, 43, could hardly cop a plea when called to spend some time in the box himself. So last week, with about 30 reporters and photographers, half a dozen plainclothesmen and several aides in tow, the California Governor became plain ole Citizen Brown and trooped into a Sacramento courtroom. Elected foreman, he announced a unanimous "not guilty" verdict on the misdemeanor charge being heard. Were his box mates hesitant to disagree with him? "No," said Sacramento Housewife Anna Holmes...
Nonetheless, the riots in Michigan seemed to emphasize the urgency of Burger's plea. They began in the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson, a dreary, 57-acre fortress built in 1926 to hold 4,000 inmates, but currently filled with 5,600 convicts. Most are hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes ranging from arson to rape and murder. Jackson's undermanned staff -there is only one guard for every 100 inmates-admits that it cannot cope with the heavily armed prisoners; according to one estimate they hone and hide more than 50 knives...
...repeated instinctively. A woman who had been standing near the Pope told a reporter confidently: "It was a Browning 9." She had heard the sound of shots many times in her native Northern Ireland, to whose warring factions the Pope in September 1979 had made an impassioned but vain plea, "on my knees," for an end to violence...
...political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing. They may be the first generation of comics to forgo the funnyman's implicit plea: love me by laughing at me. The post-funny comics can do without both...