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...reform movement today, in fact, generally favors a moratorium on the building of new prisons. Its reasoning is simple. The only sure thing about an added facility is that it will be filled -and given society's policies, will soon enough become just another hellhole. President Milton Rector of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency even contends that if space is "readily available," the rates of incarceration tend to go up even though serious crime may be declining...
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...have run articles on the rebel movement in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, you said that Ahmed Gailani [Jan. 28] was a rector of the Islamic Center in Copenhagen. This is false. My father Sibghatullah Mojadidi was the rector of the Islamic Center. He is a well-known Islamic scholar, with a specialization in Islamic law. Mojadidi is very much in favor of the unity of Afghan rebel groups. The group of which he is a member is open to everyone and is working for the liberation of Afghanistan and its people...
...documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather. Still, those moviegoers who have a taste for Wise Blood are not going to cavil about flaws. It is enough to ride the wild imaginative waves of this singular artistic adventure. -Frank Rich
...most visible of Peshawar's refugees is Sayad Ahmed Gailani. The 45-year-old Islamic scholar fled Afghanistan with his large family in 1978 and now claims 70,000 soldiers in his National Liberation Front, with another 300,000 Afghans ready to pledge support. Gailani, a past rector of the Islamic Center in Copenhagen who has also taught in Saudi Arabia and Libya, is regarded by his followers asapir (saint), and he claims that his family lineage traces directly to Muhammad. He could become a focus for Western support, although his urbanity offends some ultraorthodox Muslims. Too many...