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Responding to an emergency motion filed by Partisan Defense Committee (PDC) counsel Valerie West and Geronimo's long-time counsel Stuart Hanlon, Federal District Court Judge Weigel granted a temporary restraining order compelling prison officials to grant Geronimo single cell status...
Roughly 10% of the correspondents, however, were furious with Milken for his confessed criminal activities, which included the manipulation of securities prices. John Weigel, a financial consultant in Costa Mesa, Calif., called Milken "merely a financial extortionist on a Capone-esque scale that demands punishment on a similar scale." Concurred Miami attorney J.B. Spence: "It will be incredibly disheartening to the American public if the sentence is a mere slap on the wrist...
...Christiane and her boyfriend Detlev (Thomas Haustein) spiral into the lower depths, the movie becomes as exhausting and repetitive as a reprobate's confession. But this is Screenwriter Herman Weigel's point. There is no drama in this drama-no rush, no reason, no alternative, no future. The junkie's world is not a series of adrenaline highs and remorseful lows; it is one endless anguish. The victims are zombies, gray-faced, living dead. Director Ulrich Edel hews to a semidocumentary style, but his message is out of the classic German monster movies: There is a golem...
Woodstock led; it did not follow. Its theological superstars paced U.S. Catholicism into Vatican II thinking before the Second Vatican Council existed. Woodstock's Gustave Weigel was more than anyone else the father of American Catholic ecumenism. The late John Courtney Murray, the nation's most brilliant Catholic political thinker, was the prime inspiration behind Vatican II's decree on religious liberty...
Died. Helene Weigel, 70, Vienna-born actress-director and flinty widow of Playwright Bertolt Brecht; in East Berlin. Already an accomplished performer when she married Brecht in 1929, Weigel later starred in his drama Mother Courage on the Berlin stage. Anti-Nazi and proCommunist, the couple fled Hitler's Germany in 1933, lived in Denmark and the U.S., then returned to East Germany after the war. For the past 15 years Weigel directed the famed Berliner Ensemble, the repertory company founded by Brecht. "What Brecht prescribed," wrote Critic Kenneth Tynan in 1961, "his widow embodies: the maxim that there...