Word: felons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backing of Opposition Leader Michael Foot, who said that government concessions would give "sure aid to the recruitment of terrorists." Within hours of the funeral, Home Secretary William Whitelaw announced the government's other response: the intent to plug a legal loophole that had allowed Sands, a convicted felon, to stand for Parliament. Westminster wanted no repetition of the I.R.A.'s ploy when yet another by-election is called in Northern Ireland's turbulent Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency...
Hill, described by New York City police as a "knockabout felon," served as an errand boy for the Paul Vario faction of the Lucchese family. When Hill was arrested on narcotics charges last year, he agreed to testify against his former friends in exchange for federal protection...
...does not promise to turn a felon into a bank president. In any case, a more informed judgment on facial surgery's potential for changing personality probably must await release of a study now under way at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Meantime, prisoners continue to apply for surgical work that may cost taxpayers $2,000 to $4,000. But even at that, it may be the cheapest rehabilitation program going...
...Sounds frightening, doesn't it?" It certainly does, but Carpenter has the solution--guns. Because "in many cases the man of the house must be away from home due to work etc," women need firearms. Big firearms, because smaller ones "lack the stopping power to bring down an advancing felon." Carpenter admits his advice may be legally questionable. "Some states have ridiculous laws, such as one can shoot in self-defense only if the intruder states he intends physicals harm" But fire away anyway, he recommends pithily...
...hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit (Anita Bryant, Art Linkletter, Boxer George Foreman, born-again Watergate Felon Charles Colson...