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Browne's ruling came on a motion filed last summer by two defense attorneys who took over the case after the defendants had dismissed Heller. The two faulted their predecessor for not seeking a quid pro quo when the youngsters confessed, such as a reduced charge or a promise of leniency. Said one of the lawyers, Al Gaudelli: "There was no deal. How is that in his clients' best interests...
...presence of this obsessive, comforting vision links Dad to Birdy (1979), Wharton's acclaimed first novel about an adolescent boy who wants to become a canary and fly. But Dad is a rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power in prolixity. When Dad goes through his brief recovery, Tremont notes, within a few pages, "he's like a seventeen-year-old . . . he could have some feelings of being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound...
Middle East. As a much stronger supporter of Israel and the Camp David process than Giscard, Mitterrand will almost certainly back off from the overtly mercantile pro-Arab policy of his predecessor. In a rare moment of agreement, both Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres hailed Mitterrand last week as "a true friend of Israel...
This description jibes perfectly with Grass's own fictional methods, particularly in The Tin Drum, a sprawling, picaresque vision of a later war. The Meeting at Telgte is considerably shorter and less ambitious than its famous predecessor, much more an elegy than an encyclopedia. But for all its brevity, the novel fleshes out serious old questions about the place of literature in the lives of nations. Grass allows his imaginary meeting to end on a note of ineffectuality. The inn burns down, and with it a peace proposal that the poets composed: "And so, what would in any case...
...roots of the fiasco stretch back to last July, when Eugenia Charles, 61, was elected Prime Minister of all-black Dominica. Among those she defeated was a predecessor, Patrick John, 44, driven from office in 1979 after a BBC documentary charged that his plans for island industrialization included an oil refinery that would benefit South Africa. John's go-between was said to be Burnett-Alleyne, a convicted smuggler who once recruited mercenaries to invade Barbados. The Charles administration believes the ten Americans, who were apprehended with an arsenal of automatic weapons and plastic explosives, were to enforce...