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Weekend furloughs are a useful tool even for inmates serving life sentences. When a prisoner has no hope of release, he has nothing to lose. He becomes more likely to escape, act violently, and riot...
NATIVE Chilean Isabel Allende's third novel, Eva Luna, takes us away from the military dictatorship and riot police of her previous works and into a world where guerrilla fighters, African saints and women who sleep in coffins dominate...
...students who favor unification of North and South Korea and an end to American influence have been clashing with police. However it played on foreign television screens, in Seoul these confrontations had the feel of street theater, not revolution. Students knew just how far they could go, and the riot police knew their roles...
...museum, want the proud hug of philistinism. The film archivist Henri Langlois knew this when he opened a Paris movie museum 16 years ago in his Cinematheque Francaise. Inside the front door, Psycho's mummified Mother Bates lurked behind a window. Against the back wall, German expressionism ran riot in a full-scale set from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The museum was like an EKG of a national intelligence that can find value in both Jean-Luc Godard and Jerry Lewis...
Widespread public support for the students as they bravely stood their ground against pepper-gas-firing riot police transformed Roh the Chun Puppet into Roh the Democrat. On June 29 Roh invited a television crew to remain behind after he had addressed a routine meeting of the D.J.P. To the amazement of those present, Roh announced that he would resign from all his party positions unless the Chun government agreed to eight democratic reforms, including direct presidential elections, freedom of the press and pardons for political prisoners. The June 29 Declaration, as it is now known, stunned his party...