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...decision by California's three-member board of prison terms was harsh but expected. Sirhan Sirhan, 38, the lone killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, had earlier been scheduled for parole on Sept. 1, 1984. But public outrage prompted an appeal by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and after a rehearing at Soledad Prison, the board last week took back the parole date. Sirhan will come up for a new review in November...
...reliance on public opinion is unconstitutional. Fain is not the only California prisoner with a direct stake in the outcome. Another is Gregory Powell, whose murder of a Los Angeles policeman was the basis of Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field. He is due for release in June. Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin, becomes eligible for parole in 1984, and somewhat further in the future, Murderer Charles Manson too may be up for consideration. But if their fates are in the public's hands, they should not be making any plans. So long as the community...
Some may complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and Rosie Ruiz, we have been wanting for heroes. And it will be a long time before anyone romanticizes budget cuts--besides they're boring things to sing about...
DIED. Emile Zola Berman, 78, New York trial lawyer and attorney for countless underdog clients and unpopular causes, who was best known for helping to defend Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy; in New York City. Berman first came to national attention in 1956, when he defended a Marine sergeant who was court-martialed for the drowning of six young recruits during a disciplinary march through a tidal creek at Parris Island, S.C. While representing Sirhan, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1969, Berman explained: "I'm not defending his crime, only his rights...
...Secret Service keeps a list of some 25,000 people believed to pose potential threats to the President, and 300 to 400 considered especially dangerous. Yet none of the persons involved in wellknown assassination attempts since 1963 -Sirhan Sirhan, Arthur Bremer, Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, Sara Jane Moore and John Hinckley-ever appeared on the Secret Service list...