Word: calhouns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Coast Guard later encountered the Shevchenko and the Snechkus, seizure was recommended by the State Department, and the President gave the green light. Carter explained his action to reporters who stopped him outside the First Baptist Church of Calhoun, Ga., where he was observing the Easter holidays. "We just had to draw the line somewhere," the President said...
Jimmy Carter is not unaware of the problems he has caused. In order to avoid creating even more chaos, he has decided not to go home for Easter this year. Instead, he will travel to Calhoun, Ga., where Son Jack lives. When the President discussed this plan with his brother by telephone, Billy told him he could come home if he wanted. "You being here won't make it any worse than it already is," said Billy to the leader of the free world...
...precocious, negative 14-year-old--a big, tough kid," Calhoun recalled. "He locked two nine-year-olds in a refrigerator and killed them, then knifed another kid. He wasn't schizophrenic--just a malicious character with violent tendencies." Calhoun said the boy was now serving a sentence at Concord. "In a couple of quirky cases," Calhoun said, "the kid's definition of manhood is Walpole...
Crucial to the success of community-based programs such as NYPUM and Hastings House is participation by creative judges, staffers and acceptance in the community. In some courts, this kind of dedication exists, but in others, lack of interest is such that "the courtroom's empty by 2 p.m.," Calhoun says...
...Calhoun describes Feloney's court as "one of the best in the Commonwealth. In a system that is not standardized, where fiefdoms and mini-kingdoms abound because of life-time appointments, Judge Feloney has proved a benevolent baron...