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Hill, who was arrested with three others in 1974 for his alleged involvement in the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, was brutally interrogated and repeatedly beaten by British authorities. As a result of fabricated evidence, Hill was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release at the age of 20. Hill spent 15 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement. In April, 1994, after a lengthy court battle, he was exonerated of all charges...
...tabloids really reform themselves? Paul Woolwich, editor of Hard News, a TV program that weekly exposes the worst excesses of the British press, has his doubts: "Who will decide when a right to reply is justified or when there can be an invasion of privacy? The newspapers will." Indeed, the day after the code was signed the Sun was back on the street with a story that began, "Sex-mad Barbara Williams has ditched her toy boy hubby...
DIED. John A.T. Robinson, 64, boldly individualistic Anglican theologian, former Bishop of Woolwich (1959-69) and Cambridge lecturer who scandalized the church world with his 1963 biblical study Honest to God, which argued that traditional concepts of a supernatural God and Saviour were essentially mythical and inadequate in this scientific age; of cancer; in Arncliffe, Yorkshire, England...
...installing wood-burning stoves, hand pumps and compost toilets. Though conventional housing costs up to $40 per sq. ft., homes constructed along Shelter lines can be built for $7 to $8 per sq. ft. The Hennins, who built their own 1½-story, six-room house in Woolwich, Me., for $4,000 in 1975, figure that a graduate who sticks to their rules can build a modest five-or six-room house today for less than $15,000. Not bad, considering that the cost of a new one-family house now averages...
...Like America's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, he scandalized the pious by belittling "our images of God as a Being 'up there.' " His book also advocated what was called "the New Morality," rejecting absolute rules of right and wrong. After he resigned as Bishop of Woolwich and returned to Cambridge in 1969, Robinson wrote The Human Face of God, which criticized traditional formulations of the deity of Christ, particularly the idea that he preexisted in the Godhead before his birth...