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Longer-term results are more difficult to gauge. After release, program members commit far fewer offenses than others. But Cook admits that "sometimes we can only cut down the type or frequency of crime." In any case, he has high hopes for the current group, will recommend that half be taken out of the program immediately and given full freedom...
...longer an innocent freshman questing, but rather a jaded graduate detouring. He revolves in typical refugee circles, begins to bed down casually, regards paternity indifferently, soon marries carelessly. Although still a painter, he has also started to dabble at writing -in Swedish-but he has yet to commit himself fully either to art or to his own life...
...reinforcements soon overcame Brown's defense. After taking a look at his blood-spattered apartment and German Model Eva Marie Bohn-Chin, 22, lying semiconscious below his balcony, they arrested the former Cleveland star on charges of felony battery against a peace officer and assault with intent to commit murder. The prosecutor later dropped the assault charge when Eva refused to name Jimmy as the assailant...
...three Democratic candidates last week took off the gloves and began punching barefisted. Eugene McCarthy, for the first time, directly charged Robert Kennedy with a major role in the initial decision to commit U.S. military power to Southeast Asia, declaring that Camelot II might lead to "further involvements like Viet...
...longer run, he questions whether his comparatively small (pop. 12 million) country can afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...