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...connection between frontier-style crime and economic backwardness is more than a mere alibi. In an era when the downtrodden of Asia, Latin America and Africa make more drastic claims on the world's sympathy, Sicily, the home of one of Europe's oldest civilizations, gets scant foreign attention. But of Sicily's 4,700,000 people, 900,000 are officially classed as totally destitute, 1,200,000 more "semi-destitute." In Palermo, a recent neighborhood survey found 498 people (74 of them infants) crowded into 118 rooms. There was only one toilet in the whole area...
...Whose grandfather, Henry Cabot Lodge, defeated Honey Fitz by a scant 30,000 votes in a 1916 Senate race...
...York Post proposed that Eichmann be prosecuted "in Germany by the German republic"-a suggestion that found scant favor in Germany. The Washington Post complained that "everything connected with the proceedings against Eichmann is tainted with lawlessness. If, as reported, he was abducted from another country, international law was violated. The crimes with which he is to be charged were committed in Germany and Austria; Israel has no jurisdiction to try the case. In any event, Israel can try him only under ex post facto statutes...
Peking finally got Nossal's point, granted him a temporary visa last October, later extended it for six months and thereby made him the Western Hemisphere's only Red China-based newspaperman. In his eight months on the job. Nossal gave his hosts scant cause for offense, generally depicted Red Chinese life in the most glowing terms (TIME, April 18). But even that was not enough: last week the Globe and Mail announced that the Chinese Communists, accusing Nossal of inaccuracy, had ordered him to leave. Correspondent Nossal could not understand why-and neither could anyone else...
From the vast snake pit of Manhattan's Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital, Drs. Emanuel Messinger and Benjamin Apfelberg reported that, of 57,000 lawbreakers ex amined over 25 years, a scant 5% had ordinary mental illnesses rated as treat able. Most of the rest were, in some de gree, what psychiatrists call psychopaths or sociopaths - individuals whose consciences are either lacking or inert, and who choose to do what they want when they want. These are notoriously the patients with whom psychiatry has the least success. And in many courts, psychopathy is excluded from the catalogue of mental illnesses that...