NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Torture Confirmed An interesting footnote to Sean Cronin's article, elsewhere in this issue, about tensions in Ireland is supplied by the 14-volume report lately issued by the Council...
...They also plan on purchasing a van, which would transport people who arrive by bus or train in a nearby town...
...in Prison The federal reformatory for women in Alderson, West Virginia, is out in nowhere...
...Thus substantiated were charges originally made by the Government of the Irish Republic that British security forces in Northern Ireland violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights forbidding "torture and inhuman and degrading treatment...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...26: ELECT NO ONE...
...28 to Dec...
...The techniques involved hooding, subjection to continuous hissing noise, standing against a wall with legs spread apart for long periods, deprivation of sleep, and denial of an adequate diet...
...In this same context, officials of the Irish Program of the National Council of Churches are sponsoring a "Journey of Reconciliation" to Ireland, Nov...
...Was it symptomatic of anything...
...Endorsing an appeal for funds are Jessica Mitford, the author, Sister Dorothy Donnelly of the National Coalition of American Nuns, Sister Margaret Ellen Trax-ler of the Institute of Women Today, and Jesuit Fathers Daniel Berrigan and Richard T. McSorley, among others...
...My second, until Oct...
...Contributions may be sent to the Alderson Hospitality House Project, c/o 1331 N St., N.W., Washington, B.C...
...CBS commentator Bill Movers' facetious bit of election-night wisdom on why there are more Democrats than Republicans in the U.S...
...I didn't see my first presidential bumper-sticker until Oct...
...Dieter and Louden view theirs as a new extension of concern for the plight of women in prison...
...The British Compton Report had argued that such techniques constituted "ill-treatment," not "torture...
...They have assurances from the owner of buying a large 18-room house, which house would become a supportive and informational center for relatives and friends calling at Alderson...
...Inquiries about the tour may be directed to Father Bowman at the National Council of Churches of Christ, 475 Riverside Drive, New York City, 10027...
...The evidence of some security forces witnesses is described in another instance as "incredible...
...NEWS& VIEWS Torture Confirmed An interesting footnote to Sean Cronin's article, elsewhere in this issue, about tensions in Ireland is supplied by the 14-volume report lately issued by the Council of Europe's Commission on Human Rights...
...It is a situation, in sum, that heightens the isolation from family and friends for the 580 plus persons confined in this main federal facility for women...
...The report also revealed that the British Government instructed its witnesses at the,Commission's hearings in Strasbourg, London and Norway not to reply to questions about interrgation-in-depth techniques, and that "certain politicians who had been responsible for the pot-icy of internment" were informally invited to give evidence but had refused...
...It will not be a comfort-tour," said Jesuit Father David Bowman, director of the Council's Ireland Program...
...Our risk will be pitifully small, however, compared to that of the extraordinary 'ordinary people' who live in the conflict-situation every day...
...The project, including some repairs on the house, will run at least $25,000...
...The nearest town with adequate housing for visitors is 20 miles away, and since neither bus nor train stops in Alderson, travel to and from the town must often be made by taxi, a not inexpensive proposition...
...The report, which Britain sought to have withdrawn, found the British Government "guilty" of using torture in the interrogation of internees in Northern Ireland five years ago, but "not guilty" of discriminating unfairly against the Catholic minority in the application of internment...
...Republicans sleep in twin beds...
...20005...
...The Times Literary Supplements, judgment on the Ehrlichman book, The Company: A failure, for not making fiction stranger than truth...
...It is certainly high time there was another English Pope," wrote Michael Brown, church correspondent, adding that it's been a long wait since 1159 and Hadrian IV...
...Odds and Ends -The Yorkshire Post, one of Britain's most influential newspapers, is trumpeting for Pope the new Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume...
...24 (Carter/ Mondale...
...If you went by bumper stickers," he reflected a few days before the election, "SAVE THE WHALES would win 5-3...
...Two individuals connected with the Zacchaeus Soup Kitchen in Washington- Ridhard Dieter and Margaret Louden-are seeking to do something about Alderson's lack of hotels, motels, or tourist homes, and thus end the phenomenon that "most women" at Alderson serve their entire sentence without a visit from the outside world...
...The telephone number is 212-870-2812...
...Dieter and Louden plan to open a house of hospitality within walking distance of the prison...
...We shall be taking some risk, of necessity...
...Those responsible for introducing internment into Northern Ireland included Prime Minister Brian Faulkner of Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Edward Heath of Great Britain, and the British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling...
...In rejecting this rationale, the Commission of Human Rights revealed that the five techniques-as well as "interrogation-in-depth," which was lumped into the same category-were taught to members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary at a seminar conducted in Northern Ireland by the English Intelligence Center...
...5. Participants will go in the spirit of Selma, and bear witness for peace, justice and reconciliation at the final rally of 1976 in the Valley of the Boyne...
...Appropriately they make theirs the words of Dorothy Day in a recent Catholic Worker: "It is cruel and inhuman punishment not to make it more possible.for prisoners to see their children or parents...
...A Maryland official seemed similarly amazed...
Vol. 103 • November 1976 • No. 24
