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Discontent deepened after Founder Flanagan's ailing successor was replaced last October by Father Robert P. Hupp, a fatherly former Navy chaplain. Hupp recruited psychologists, counselors and social workers-including an ex-convict -to bring the community out of the 1940s. Boys Town also bought a house in Omaha to aid older boys with their reentry into society...
What to do about these attacks of violence? Spurred by police statistics and women's rights groups, some state legislatures are now rewriting their rape laws. To convict a rapist, most states require evidence to support the victim's claim: cuts, bruises or torn clothing, a medical report stating physical penetration and sometimes even an eyewitness who can identify the assailant. Believing that such rules were making it too tough to get convictions, Connecticut and New York recently repealed them...
...survey indicates that the House will probably vote to impeach Nixon by more than a narrow margin. On the other hand, it suggests that the vote may not be spectacular enough to move the Senate to convict the President by the necessary two-thirds majority and thereby remove him from office. In any event, the mood in both chambers of Congress will be greatly influenced by the historic decision now facing the Supreme Court...
Started 21 months ago, the program has so far handled 58 felons chosen at random from convicted thieves, forgers and the like in Minnesota prisons. The victim and the convict must work out a written contract. Forger Jerry Bixby, for instance, is now working to pay a debt of $643 in installments of $33 a month. When the victim refuses to cooperate, a symbolic contract establishes a set number of hours of unpaid volunteer work to make good the crime...
...Donald David DeFreeze, 30, nominal leader of the S.L.A., a black who called himself General Field Marshal Cinque and whose belligerent voice threatened and denigrated the Hearst family on the tapes that the S.L.A. periodically released. An escaped convict and a reputed onetime police informer, DeFreeze took part at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville in the activities of the Black Cultural Association, an organization that attracted a few embittered whites and eventually was to help spawn the S.L.A...