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Brutally Beaten. Though the FBI declined to admit it, the break apparently came after agents offered to pay $25,000 for inside information. And "somebody," as one bitter Philadelphian put it, "finally went and opened up." The informant, whoever it was, knew what he was talking about. The federal men had to dig only one hole to find the bodies. Schwerner and Goodman had each been shot through the heart with a single .38-caliber bullet. Chaney had three slugs in his body and, according to an unofficial autopsy, had been brutally beaten. "In my 25 years as a pathologist...
...Knowing that he is in danger of being pensioned off from his job as an apartment-house superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks from the tenant committee. Hirsch portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever might solve his problems, from a union lawyer to a Mafia don to "Dr. Friedrich Engles," a purported psychoanalyst. He too is hiding, from a daughter who wants to supervise his risky behavior. When at last she catches up with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place...
...Whoever injures us," vowed Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres in a speech before the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee "we will injure." All week long, the world waited for the seemingly inevitable counterstrike by Israel, or possibly the U.S. against the perpetrators of the Dec. 27 terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports that left 19 people dead and 112 injured. All signs pointed to Abu Nidal, the shadowy leader of a renegade Palestinian group currently based in Libya (see following story), as the man who masterminded the slaughter. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi taunted...
...evil simply because many individuals are very capable of being very deadly. Moreover, some states are almost fair, some are bad, some are lethal. And since writers are, or at least ought to be, in the subtleties department and in the precision department, it is our job to differentiate. Whoever ignores the existence of varying degrees of evil is bound to become a servant of evil...
...Whoever it is who keeps the annals of sport should make a new entry in the chapter on fabled rivalries. No two chess masters have ever played each other so many times in such a short period as Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov: an extraordinary 96 games during the past two years. When they finished last week, Kasparov had won the latest match and, by a single point, the entire series...