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Asifa's storm troopers have little in common with the illiterate and ill-equipped irregulars who used to sneak into Israel. Roughly half of them are college graduates or students, and all are rotated regularly in and out their civilian jobs, a practice that makes guerrilla fight ing more attractive and assures Asifa penetration into all levels of civilian life. They undergo formal guerrilla train mg at bases such as the Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like...
Domestic Issue. Of the three issues, Brandt's pronouncements on the Oder-Neisse attracted by far the most attention. By tirelessly maintaining that the former German lands east of the two rivers-40,177 sq. mi. in all-were only temporarily under Polish administration, Bonn hoped eventually to use its nonrecognition as a bargaining point if and when a peace conference is held to end World War II. But West Germany actually lost most of this leverage as Poland incorporated the former German lands into its own country and expelled the Germans there. Brandt obviously feels that the issue...
...saves $4,000,000 a year in prison costs and welfare payments to prisoners' families. The whole prison ethos can be changed. Just as astronauts train by simulating space conditions, so prisons should be located right in the inmates' community, where a vastly augmented treatment staff could use local resources to help the offender identify with an-ticriminal people and succeed at legitimate work...
...this suggests that prisons are slowly absorbing a key lesson of modern psychology: desirable behavior is best induced by "positive reinforcement"-rewards rather than punishment. Thus, federal prisons and 24 states now use work-release schemes pioneered by North Carolina, where 12,000 select convicts have earned $10 million in ten years-even working as court reporters, while partly supporting their families, partly paying their prison keep and landing future jobs. At California's San Joaquin County Jail, one recent prisoner was an ex-airplane dealer who spent all day flying charter planes, duly landed for the night lockup...
...Government support may well be necessary. Beyond that, the group suggested that more of the essentially repetitive tasks, such as drawing a will, processing a divorce or incorporating a small business, could be programmed into a computer that would produce standard clauses on command. Similarly, said the group, greater use can be made of paralegal aides-non-lawyers who are specially trained to do minutiae that re quire an inefficiently large amount of an attorney's time...