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Just how firm that resolve is received startling corroboration in Paris last week with the publication of Une Jeunesse Francaise (A French Youth): Francois Mitterrand 1934-1947. Written by investigative reporter Pierre Pean, this 616- page study exhaustively documents a period of Mitterrand's life that has long been the subject of speculation, rumor and innuendo. Friendly biographies have heretofore ignored or glided around the question that haunts every French member of Mitterrand's generation: Just what did he do before and during the World War II Nazi Occupation...
...bills under debate in Trenton echoes a "sexual predators" provision in the crime bill approved by Congress last week, which requires certain offenders to check in with police every 90 days for the rest of their lives. The New Jersey proposal would require police to notify neighbors, schools, churches, youth groups and the media within 45 days of an ex- offender's moving into a neighborhood. Governor Christine Whitman, who wants community notification only when an inmate is "really at risk of committing these kinds of offenses again," argues that too broad a law risks deluging the police with paperwork...
Others questioned Chavis' claim of increasing N.A.A.C.P. membership from 490,000 to more than 600,000, including 100,000 new youth members. The more accurate figures, noted in an internal report, according to another Chavis critic, are that the actual membership is 401,000 and the youth membership only...
...billion worth of prevention programs is harder to tar uniformly. "Hope in Youth," which awards $20 million for "multi-issue forums for public policy discussion," is unadulterated pork. On the other hand, the widely derided late-night sports programs ($40 million) are meant to duplicate the inner-city "midnight basketball" games that many cops praise for helping keep idle kids off the streets...
Three months later, Jones, Reed and another teenager were arrested for arson. All three were tried and convicted; Jones and Reed were sentenced to prison; the other youth was released because he is a juvenile. Why did they do it? "There was no reason," says Calvin. "I'm just sorry I didn't do more to stop it." Perhaps it was just another attempt to change the bitter reality of Lake Providence...