Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most visible of Britain's detention camps in Ulster for suspect members of the Irish Republican Army is H.M.S. Maidstone, a former submarine supply ship anchored in Belfast's harbor. One evening last week, seven prisoners sawed their way through porthole bars, lowered themselves into the icy water by knotted bed sheets and swam ashore. The fugitives hijacked a bus, drove into the market area of Belfast and vanished from sight...
...overestimating the WASP-both as hero and as villain -he underestimates everybody else. One would never guess that the most talented playwright in American history was a black Irishman named Eugene O'Neill, or that the wisest philosopher was a half-Spaniard, George Santayana. One would never suspect that America's only native art, jazz, was the invention of Americans who were neither Anglo-Saxon nor white...
Some observers nonetheless suspect forgery. Handwriting analysis will undoubtedly be the focus of the case; Hughes' lawyers may ask for an Internal Revenue Service investigation, saying that he never received McGraw-Hill checks. The noted New York handwriting experts Osborn Associates have verified that the handwriting on those documents matches samples of Hughes' handwriting dating back to 1936. At that time, Hughes was booked in a Los Angeles police station, where his fingerprints and signature were recorded after his car struck and killed a pedestrian (the charges were dropped). The present handwriting is also said to match Hughes' signatures...
...Buenos Aires since 1921. "The last pleasures left her," writes Borges, "would be those of memory and, later on, of forgetfulness. She recounted historical happenings, but always using the same words in the same order, as if they were the Lord's Prayer, so that I grew to suspect there were no longer any real images behind them. Even eating one thing or another was all the same to her. She was, in short, happy...
...Case Load, the climax-and a neat one it is-comes when Detective Hamilton, desperate to solve a case. frames and murders a suspect he had concluded was innocent. The victim is actually guilty, and Hamilton gets away with the crime. But Author-Convict Johnson knows that that is an unimportant detail. Whether Hamilton actually goes to prison for his crime matters only to society. For each man, there is prison enough in himself...