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Veterans Administrator Max Cleland, 36, whose right arm and both legs were blown away by a grenade near Khe Sanh, has begun pushing programs to alleviate some of the Viet vets' problems. Among the initiatives...
...rather than under Iran's penal code. Trials are conducted by a five-man panel of judges. Verdicts in the trials, some of which have lasted less than an hour, are reached by a majority vote of the judges; the sentence is handed down by the senior judge, whose appointment is approved by Khomeini, and carried out immediately. There are no appeals. The new regulations allow for defense attorneys, though none were seen at last week's trials in Tehran. The guidelines also allow for "open" courts; in practice, attendance has usually been limited to witnesses, relatives...
...Israeli assault rifles and machine pistols. The National Guard, which is commanded by the dictator's half brother, Colonel Jose Somoza, is now so preoccupied with battling the rebels that routine police work has been sacrificed and street crime is rampant. Complains the manager of a bottling company whose trucks were robbed 51 times in March alone: "The average citizen doesn't know who is going to hit him over the head or put a gun in his ribs and take the money from his pockets...
...grisly methods. Some details, however, came out at an inquest on Jean Jordan, the Ripper's seventh victim. At that proceeding, a pathologist reported that the victim had been slashed and mutilated in a style reminiscent of the original Jack the Ripper. In 1888 a rapacious killer whose identity has never been established savagely murdered five prostitutes in London's East...
...Ramon, Calif. He is the author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (Times Books; $8.95), a guide for survival in "the next recession, which will happen some time shortly after the publication of this book," as it states on page 15. Says Ruff, whose tremulous text has gone into its fourth printing and is in fourth place on TIME'S nonfiction bestseller list: "There is cynicism about Government and institutions and an immense searching for someone who looks like he knows where he is going...