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Brubaker, like Murton, discovers that the horrors of prison life are not waste products of idle sadism; they are manifestations of a wider corruption. The penalty for exposing these evils is death - a sentence carried out by the venal trusties and implicitly condoned by their civilian counterparts, the local politicians and businessmen. It is the discovery of the victims' graves that brings Brubaker to its ambiguous climax...
...leaders today yearn to get better educated recruits. Said Army Deputy Chief of Staff Glenn Otis to the TIME panel: "We would like to have more high school grads. They have a better understanding of life and what they're about. They're better prepared to take on a wider variety of tasks and this gives us more flexibility in their assignments...
Last year the alumni procession lasted 50 minutes, 20 minutes longer than scheduled. "The trouble spot was in front of Widener. People squeezed into one lane," Aloian, who serves on the Happy Committee, says. "This year, we'll aim for a crisper start to the parade, better movement, and wider lanes. We're going to try to keep the walkway wide--three abreast--to break the Widener bottleneck," he adds...
DIED. Ida Kaminska, 80, longtime star of the classic Yiddish theater and best known to a wider audience for her role in the Oscar-winning Czech film The Shop on Main Street (1965); in New York City. Born to actor parents who had their own company in Warsaw, Kaminska made her stage debut at four, began directing at 17, and, with her first husband, Zygmund Turkow, founded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. She fled the Nazi invasion in 1939, but returned after the war to reorganize her theater. With Polish government support, her troupe gained international renown, but officially inspired...
...plot to take revenge against Palestinians for the Hebron ambush. Barring more surprises, Sadat's decision made it virtually certain that the autonomy talks would remain deadlocked until well after May 26. That in turn raised speculation about the possibility of pursuing other roads to a wider Middle East peace. One such course is outlined in a Western European proposal to supplement U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 with a new resolution calling for the Palestinian right to self-determination. (Resolution 242, passed in 1967, calls on the Israelis to return to the prewar borders; it also refers...