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Cover
At the North Platte, Neb., sheriff’s office on that morning of Oct. 18, 1975. The press photographs Erwin Charles Simants in Sheriff Gordon Gilstad’s custody. Since then a local murder case has grown into a major confrontation between two constitutional rights: fair trial and freedom of the press. Page 16.
Photograph by Sebast Brei
6
Sunday Observer
Adversity
By Russell Baker
15
Isabelita’s terrible legacy
All Argentina can offer her—or she the Argentines—is more of the same: political violence, the world’s highest inflation and the continuing corruption of Peronism.
By Juan de Onis
16
A crime and its aftershock
Erwin Charles Simants, arrested for rape, murder and worse, was already notorious. But as with Fred Scott and Miranda, chance and politics have combined to make his case the focus of a historic constitutional debate.
By Fred W. Friendly
19
The wizard of LaGuardia
To New York’s tangled finances, Felix Rohatyn, M.A.C. chairman, brings a love of the city and ferocious tenacity in stripping down a crisis to its essentials.
By Peter Hellman
20
Pot luck
With everything from mentholated rolling papers to gold-plated bongs, young entrepreneurs get rich selling legal paraphernalia to use with illegal marijuana.
By Anthony Astracan
40
In a word, the Capitals are atrocious
By Paul Witte
42
They love him in Seattle
Thomas Pasatieri is a young American composer who writes operas and actually makes a living.
By Peter G. Davis
72
Design
Museum at home
75
Fashion
Lengthwise
78
Food
Earthy or elegant
By Craig Claiborne
with Pierre Franey
82
Letters
On computer procreation and college admission.
91
Puzzles
Last week’s answers, Page 88
111
Endpaper
Vogue words are terrific, right?
By William Safire
Picture credits, Page 80



