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Died. Franz Stangl, 63, Austrian-born commandant of the Nazi death factories at Sobibor and Treblinka in Poland; of a heart attack; in his prison cell in Dusseldorf, Germany. During 1942 and 1943, when he ran Treblinka, Stangl supervised the slaughter of over 400,000 people. Wearing a spotless white SS jacket and sporting a long riding crop, he often arranged for brass bands to entertain his captives as they were herded into Treblinka's infamous gas "showers." Captured by American troops and turned over to Austrian authorities, Stangl escaped in 1947 and fled to Brazil, where he worked...
...Pakistan's President Agha Mo hammed Yahya Khan was loath to let Mujib attain power in the central government, and he was even less inclined to grant greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The subsequent crackdown by Pakistan's army, resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of East Pakistanis, has made a political settlement even more remote...
Pastiche of Satire. El Topo begins with the kind of burning, indelible imagery that promises great moviemaking. Dressed in black leather, the protagonist comes riding across the desert, his small son naked behind him on the saddle. Reaching a town that was recently the scene of a massive slaughter, he guides his horse over festering corpses, through puddles of blood steaming in the desert sun, and rides out again, seeking vengeance. He finds the villains, homicidal clowns wearing elaborate bandit outfits, and dispatches them in an orgy of dispassionate bloodletting...
...know that by now almost everyone has finally come to see the depravity of the American involvement in Southeast Asia. There's little point in shouting and waving banners today. The student movement discovered last spring that no amount of shouting would move the Nixon Administration to stop the slaughter, that no amount of shouting would persuade Congress to step in and attempt to save America's soul. We had learned the year before that neither shouting nor reasoned arguments could persuade even this University to face the facts of the war's insanity and of the University's deep...
...Class of '71 picks up its stack of diplomas. It is a class resolute in its hatred of the war and the sicknesses that produced the war, but it is a class still at a loss to know how to cure the sicknesses and stop the slaughter...