Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening in 1976, Woodcutters Rene Vermeulen, 31, and Andre Rousseau, 30, climbed over the fence outside Legras' cottage, forced open a door and broke into the cupboard. Vermeulen , turned the radio on, and the cartridges exploded. He was thrown to the floor, his chest ripped open and his right hand blown away; Rousseau, partially blinded, went for help. Vermeulen died; Rousseau, one eye permanently damaged, was charged with attempted burglary...
French law recognizes a right of "legitimate self-defense" for crime victims who are put in fear of their life. But Legras' home was not occupied when the burglars broke in, and the damage done by his device was deemed out of proportion to the petty thievery the burglars presumably had in mind. For these reasons, the judges decided that traditional definitions of self-defense did not apply in Legras' case. But many others disagreed. The case spurred the formation of a Paris-based Movement for Legitimate Self-Defense, which counts several lawyers and former magistrates among its members. Their...
...booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when his spring gun shot a teen-ager who tried to steal some musical instruments from his garage...
...International League in batting average, home runs and RBIs, a performance that made him minor league Player of the Year. When he joined the Red Sox full time in 1975, he was 22 and a born star. From the third week of the season until he broke his finger at season's end, Rice was Boston's starting leftfielder. He batted .309 with 22 home runs and 102 RBIS and fielded without an error in 144 games protecting Fenway's famous wall. But 1975 was also the year the centerfielder Fred Lynn became the first rookie MVP in baseball history...
Campus sit-ins were nothing new in 1971 when demonstrators seized part of the Stanford University Hospital, but student editors of the Stanford Daily (circ. 15,000) covered the event anyway. A wise move. Violence broke out, and nine policemen were injured. Three days later the police, armed with a search warrant, barged into the Daily's offices looking for photographs that might help identify their assailants. They found nothing of use, and the Daily filed suit. Eventually, two lower courts found that the paper's constitutional rights had been violated, and the police were ordered...