BRUTAL SOCIETY As the July 30 execution date for William Andrews draws closer, I would like to ask my fellow Utahns to consider this article from the Paris magazine Le Monde: ``Opinion polls show that the vast majority of Americans have no real objection to the death penalty.In 1966, 42 percent supported capital punishment, and in 1991, 72 percent. There are two explanations for this American phenomenon. First the history: the U.S. was founded in violence; then...
I WAS shocked to read the results of that survey by a Paris magazine which said 10 per cent of French people use soap.Is it really as many as that?...
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday that he wants to meet with President-elect Bill Clinton before the Mideast peace talks reconvene to determine whether the men share the same approach to the negotiations.Rabin, speaking in an interview on army radio, also repeated his belief that negotiations will resume despite angry reactions to Israel's deportation of 415 Palestinians to Lebanon on Dec. 17. Lebanon has refused to take the men, and they remain in a...
Fourth in a series MOSCOW - Irina Krigova could have stepped off the cover of a Paris magazine as she came forward and greeted us - in French.Slim, with blue stockings, red shoes, plaid skirt and blouse, fluffy sweater and a pageboy haircut, she had a certain look and style hardly expected from a Russian dissident leader who makes her living as a street sweeper.Walking from the Shodenskaja subway station to her fifth floor walk-up apartment several blocks away, her 5- and 3-year-old...
Jean Rouaud yesterday won the 1990 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize, for his first novel, "The Fields of Honor." The 159-page story published by Editions de Minuit explores the mores of rural France through the memories of an old truck driver recalling the significant deaths in his family: grandfather, grandmother, father and aunt.The Goncourt jury awarded the prize on an 8-to-2 vote, with Philippe Labro's...