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...said she likes to write too, disagreed. "This man is a writer and writers are strange. He is not stranger than they are because he was infatuated with Jodie Foster. He shot four people." The argument turned on whether poetry should be considered factual or if, as Prosecutor Roger Adelman had insisted during the trial, fictional. "Poetry is not fiction," Lassiter argued vehemently. They all tended to agree. To make sure, they requested a dictionary to look up the definitions of "poetry" and "fiction," but the judge turned them down...
...prosecution contends that Hinckley, who is charged with trying to kill the President and three others, was sane and responsible for his act. The crime, declared Chief Prosecutor Roger Adelman in his opening statement to the jury of seven women and five men, was "a deliberate, planned, premeditated, indeed a calculated attack." In his presentation, Defense Attorney Vincent Fuller told the jury that "the basic underlying facts of the tragic events are not in dispute." The case for the defense: Hinckley was legally insane at the time of the shootings and could not understand or control his actions. Said Fuller...
Carter aides figured a 15% to 20% run-up in oil prices as part of their 1980 forecast. M.I.T. Oil Economist Morris A. Adelman argues that OPEC has adopted a tactic of "permanent brinkmanship," which will keep the oil supply just short of world demand, while continuing to raise prices. The U.S. must fight back by substantially cutting consumption. But Adelman fears that "our national rhetoric is balanced by our reluctance to do anything...
...ADELMAN: If the Administration wants to be taken seriously, it must tax the energy that it wants saved. It is a disservice to control prices because you feed bum dope to consumers. When prices go up, people will use less. Seven cents more for gasoline will not make much difference, but the knowledge that prices are going to keep rising will change habits...
...ADELMAN: If we had not been in such a rush, the reactor accident might have been avoided, but nuclear is now back to the drawing boards. We need less regulation and more development of low-sulfur coal. Solar will grow only slowly, but that is where a lot of R. and D. money ought to be put. Energy R. and D. spending won't help solve anything for ten years, but something may come in big and leave us in a better position at the end of the decade...