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Smithies proceeds "on the assumption that the first alternative, which is clearly preferable, is also feasible." He is unable to envision a coalition government somewhere in between, a government that would combine collectivist holding patterns with a non-Communist framework...
...prison reforms. But for those growing numbers who are becoming intransigently ideological, reforms may seem irrelevant, even a dangerous distraction from their goal of eliminating the "racist system." After George Jackson's death at San Quentin and after Attica, penologists wonder whether any reforms within the current prison framework would mollify such prisoners. "Their anger is not directed toward the prisons but toward society," says Peter Preiser, New York State's Director of Probation. "The problem of the militant inmates festers beneath everything we are trying...
...course is not designed for consciousness--raising," Kahne said. "It will not be an encounter group, nor a cookbook course on life--styles. This is a time when institutions are in flux, and we hope to examine within a factual framework the present value system and the dynamics of those decisions which women pursuing the professions reach...
...amendments to the constitution that are aimed at a fundamental overhaul of Yugoslavia's political and economic life. He knows his time is short, and he fears that his system of participatory and highly innovative Communism may not survive him. Thus he is seeking to revamp the governmental framework so that the country's future will depend not so much on individuals as on stable institutions designed to prevent a power struggle for dictatorship or, equally undesirable, a return to a deadening centralized bureaucracy. Tito is also seeking to ease Yugoslavia's severe regional tensions, which could...
...film is based on a LIFE series by James Mills. Its fictional framework does not mesh well with its documentary approach. The screenplay, by Novelist Joan Didion and her husband, Journalist John Gregory Dunne, is disappointing; it never explains enough about the main characters. When a resolutely middle-class girl from Indiana winds up in New York turning tricks for smack, there should be more behind it than the mere suggestion of a repressive family situation. Of Bobby we know still less...