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...where they left off. "Krazy and Ignatz" (120pp.; $14.95) reprints the full-page, Sunday strips from 1925 and 1926, and will continue to reprint two years-worth of Sundays every year until the end. The common thread throughout is love. And love, in "Krazy Kat," sounds like this: "Zip?Pow...
DIED. SHELLEY MYDANS, 86, LIFE magazine war reporter who, with her photographer husband Carl, spent 21 months in a Japanese POW camp; in New York City. She wrote The Open City, a novel based on the experiences of Americans captured by the Japanese during World...
...accord POW status to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 4]? They could be incarcerated without trial until the war against terrorism is over and then released. This is what happened in World Wars I and II. I don't suppose the legal profession would be too keen on this idea, but it makes a lot of sense to me, as it would probably mean the prisoners would never go free. DAVID WILLIAMS Hadleigh, England...
According to the Geneva Convention, classification as a non-POW is done by an independent third party, not on a whim. And if those who are detained are not pows, they should be charged with a specific crime. LEIF STORM Regina, Sask...
...found out later that the French author Pierre Boulle got his story idea while he was a POW under the Japanese. He saw himself as the human and the Japanese as apes," says Oyamada with a laugh. "But since Cornelius' character is a sort of intermediary between the apes and humans, it kind of makes sense for me to have that name...