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...investigation, 98 of whom are being held on immigration charges. Others are being held for identification fraud and even traffic violations. In light of these numbers, it seems that the Justice Department is detaining these individuals for minor crimes while they search for new evidence. While we all yearn to see those responsible for the attacks brought to justice, evidence should be collected first and arrests made later. The Bill of Rights says we are innocent until proven guilty, not arrested and then proven guilty...
...Despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor, menace and misery lurk just across the border. East Timorese refugees?mainly former militiamen and Indonesian soldiers and their families?yearn to return from their squalid camps in West Timor. But Indonesian authorities are already unable to cope with the crisis, and the pressure on East Timor will grow when the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees quits the island in December. Although the militias have disbanded, a small core of hard-liners, scattered from West Timor to Jakarta, still harbor dreams of vengeance. "There are problems for years ahead," says...
...adds, "given the size of the investment, the new policy does encourage broadcasters to be cautious. No one wants to ruin their chances." If the plan goes through, China's couch potatoes are in for a whole lot more programming?though it might be so mild they'll yearn for the good old days of pirated signals...
...Above all, though, Yorkin and Lear yearn to make it in the movies. The failure that each nurses most lovingly is a film. With Yorkin it is "Start the Revolution Without Me," a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is "Cold Turkey," a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always caught...
Thank you for the complex portrait of teenage school shooters behind bars [SOCIETY, May 28]. Most of them are not heartless villains. They feel great anguish over their crimes, and often yearn to make amends. Their crimes stem not so much from innate evil as from heedlessness, impulsiveness, mental disorder and immaturity. Which of us would like to receive a lifetime sentence for things we did in our boisterous, unstable youth? ROSWITHA M. WINSOR Chestnut Hill, Mass...