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Folsom, for all its notoriety, is depressingly typical and illustrates the turmoil faced by penitentiaries and local jails across the U.S. In April a Justice Department study reported prison overcrowding was worse than ever, with 463,866 men and women jammed into facilities that are filled to twice their capacity. Prisons in a record 37 states have been found unfit by the federal courts. Meanwhile, the bloodshed born of such stock-pen conditions is spreading beyond the wire-topped walls of prisons, clogging the entire criminal-justice system, forcing the early release of dangerous convicts and cycling their pent...
...activity would lead to any real progress in the exasperating and nearly moribund Middle East peace process. The answer to that question was eagerly awaited by the Reagan Administration. The White House was engaged in some substantial fence mending of its own as a result of the international turmoil that followed the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise liner (see following story). In addition, the Administration suffered a painful and perhaps unnecessary blow last week to its Middle East peace efforts as Congress effectively squelched, at least until March 1, a $1.5 billion U.S. arms deal with Jordan's King...
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...Morgan Stanley, split from J.P. Morgan's financial empire by regulators in 1935, has rarely seen such turmoil. For now, the brand remains strong. Stock and bond trading have been minting gold, and the firm has advised on seven of the 10 biggest takeovers in the world this year. But the increasingly bitter spat between Purcell, a master survivor, and eight former Morgan bankers led by another ex-president, Robert Scott, threatens all that...
...latest cycle of South African violence began last August with demonstrations against a new constitution that gives Indians and Coloreds (people of mixed race) representation in a new tricameral parliament. But blacks, who represent 70% of the population, continued to be excluded. The turmoil came to a head in March when police gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape. For a while the violence subsided, only to resume last month as anger grew over the slow pace of racial reforms and a recession in which thousands of blacks have lost their jobs...