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...wisdom of Meeks and Weil only recently seems patent. The remarkable fact is not that prisons proved to be uncongenial places for moral improvement, but that it took so long for the U.S. to recognize and confess the folly. The outlook always should have been grim. Riots have beset American prisons from the beginning. But those manifest failures along the way were only specifically disappointing, not generally disillusioning. A spasm of violence at a particular prison, epidemic madness at another, each was explained away as a technical error: the cellblock configuration was wrong, the recreation policy too lenient...
...months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that was soon to be repeated in Cleveland (the Press). Instead, the Tribune Co. reversed field and proclaimed it would keep operating indefinitely, but with a daunting proviso: the city's traditionally intransigent news...
...office, a somber President José López Portillo took the podium in the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress last week to give his final state of the union address before retiring in December. Few political leaders have ever had to deliver a valedictory under such grim and humbling circumstances. Mexico's economy is staggering in a profound crisis that threatens the country's political and social stability. Inflation is running at 60%. More than half the population is unemployed or working at marginal, unskilled jobs like selling tortillas on street corners. The value...
Today the grim days of attacks by "Black September",; as the attacks by the Jordanians on the P.L.O. have come to be known, are played down by the Jordanian government in Amman. For the time being at least, King Hussein has made his peace with the P.L.O. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, the King agreed that the P.L.O., not Jordan, would represent the interests of the 720,000 residents of the West Bank, the Jordanian territory that was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Moreover, Hussein had to accept about...
...grim news coincided with further signs that West Germany remains enmeshed in a persistent slump. Last week the government statistics office reported that 5,676 companies had failed during the first six months of 1982, the highest number in 34 years, and 50% more than during the same period last year. Unemployment, which was almost unknown in West Germany during the 1960s and early 1970s, rose in July to 1.75 million, or 7.2% of the labor force. The country's gross national product is expected to rise only 1% in 1982, after declining .3% last year...