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...after he persuaded the legislature to impose mandatory prison sentences without parole for such crimes as murder, aggravated rape, armed robbery and arson; about 75 such "Class X" inmates are now in state and county jails. By 1982 conditions had grown so bad that U.S. Judge L. Clure Morton declared the entire system unconstitutional because of overcrowding and poor recreational and health facilities. Alexander has proposed that Tennessee contract the privately run Corrections Corporation of America to build and operate two 500-bed prisons, a suggestion that has been shelved by skeptical legislators. Before recessing last week, however, the legislature...
...handguns is considered dead. Indications are that Congress may even loosen the already weak restrictions on guns. The 1.8 million-member N.R.A., with an annual budget of $30 million, forms the nation's most powerful single-interest group. One pro-N.R.A. bill, sponsored by Senator James Mc-Clure of Idaho and originally called the gun-decontrol bill, already has 61 sponsors in the Senate. It would loosen interstate trade in firearms and allow their possession by some categories of felons. In addition, Reagan plans to cut back or abolish the agency that now enforces federal gun laws...
...Government rat-extermination program ("In Payette we kill our own rats"). He ran a smooth campaign against Idaho State University President William E. Davis, 43, shrewdly tying the moderate Democrat to unpopular McGovern positions. When it came out that Davis endorsed the farm workers' lettuce boycott, Mc-Clure staffers passed the word: "Will a potato boycott be next...
Chomping on a homemade stogie, Stewart tackles the chore with relish. Sometimes he saunters to the little cemetery in the hollow to talk to his late beloved Martha, gone these 16 years. When a young Rebel officer (Doug Mc-Clure) wants to marry his pretty daughter (Rosemary Forsyth), Stewart gives the whippersnapper a little lecture on the secret of handling womenfolk...
...library tables of most genteel U. S. homes ten years ago lay at least one magazine of high-grade fiction & belles lettres, and one heavy review. The fiction-belles lettres ranks, which once included Everybody's, Munsey's, Century, Mc-Clure's, Scribner's, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, have been heavily decimated. All but the last three have died or been transformed unrecognizably...