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Offensive Execution
At precisely midnight the kidnapers cited the family appeals among their reasons for lifting the execution threat. The captors seemed intrigued, however, by remarks of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres concerning the 400 Arab prisoners. While Peres declared, "Israel cannot and will not act according to ultimatums," he added that...
Bradfield was an Upper Merion English teacher and is now serving three life sentences for conspiracy in the Reinert murders. The actual killings were done by Jay Smith, the school principal, who was sentenced to death and awaits execution. How Smith ever got to be an administrator of impressionable youth...
The Paris Elektra was the most daring in concept but the tamest in execution. Schneidman rather naively promised an "arena of the psychodrama buried deep in the tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real...
In a pair of thoroughly mixed signals, Moscow frees some political dissidents but cracks down hard on refuseniks. -- A threatened execution of Beirut hostages does not take place, but little hope for their freedom can be found. -- Mexico is seized by a swelling current of discontent. -- A new generation of...