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...ambassador's residence and bombed several Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants in Lima. Those acts initially imbued the guerrillas with an aura somewhere between Robin Hood mystique and radical chic. In 1990 the group staged its most spectacular stunt when nearly 50 members tunneled out of the Canto Grande prison near Lima, supposedly the nation's most secure jail. The crowning indignity was that the operation was videotaped by the escapees, who included Victor Polay, Tupac Amaru's top leader at the time...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee: The man convicted of slaying civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been hospitalized in critical condition for liver failure and may be near death. James Earl Ray, who has been sick for more than a year, was moved from a prison hospital to Columbia Nashville Memorial Hospital on Saturday night, according to prison officials. Ray, 68, confessed to the April 1968 shooting of King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Three days later, Ray recanted his story and has been fighting for a new court hearing ever since...
...sight of a doctor--the same one, she concluded, who had dissected McDermott--and screamed uncontrollably. She was removed to an insane asylum--"mad as a snake," it was said--and subjected to a regime of cold baths and strait waistcoats. She endured this and was returned to the prison. Staying sane here, she says to herself, is like hanging over the edge of a bridge: you aren't moving anywhere, but it takes all your energy. A young doctor visits, a specialist in mental illness summoned by a group of local sympathizers who have petitioned to have her released...
This is a brilliant impersonation. Atwood has saturated herself in the social attitudes and intellectual currents of Canada a century and a half ago. She is scrupulous in not pretending to know the whole truth of Grace Marks. Who, the author notes, was at last freed from prison after 29 years. And who immigrated to New York State and there disappeared from sight...
SENTENCED. JONATHAN SCHMITZ, 26, guest on The Jenny Jones Show who killed fellow guest Scott Amedure after Amedure admitted to having a gay crush on him; to 25 to 50 years in prison; in Pontiac, Michigan...