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FOOTNOTE: *Weinberger actually distorted the legend of King Canute, who, to chide his sycophantic followers, showed them that the advancing tide paid no heed to his commands...
...testimony heard during a four- week trial, a jury in nearby Fort Myers found her son Steven Benson, 35, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, two of felony murder and five relating to arson and unlawful explosives. Judge Hugh D. Hayes Jr. said he intended to heed the jury's recommendation for life in prison when formal sentencing occurs next month...
...hysteria about drugs heightens, though, we would all do well to heed the words of Judge H. Lee Sarokin, who recently ruled that 16 New Jersey firemen suspended after failing surprise urine tests had to be reinstated, at least temporarily: "No matter how important war against crime and drugs, constitutional rights must not be sacrificed to win those battles...
When a U.S. Air Force C-5A transport plane landed in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz to launch the latest battle in America's war on drugs, the far-off town of Trinidad, 250 miles to the northwest, paid little heed. But the next day Trinidad Mayor Pedro Alvarez was summoned to the local Bolivian air force base for some unsettling news. The gringos are coming, he was informed; the base would need another well. Since that day, the tranquil cattle-farming community of Trinidad (pop. 40,000), capital of Bolivia's northeastern Beni region, has not been...
...three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow every year, and bookstores continue to dedicate more space to books on cassette." Another successful producer, Listen for Pleasure, also refuses to heed the Cassandras. "At first no one understood what we were selling," says Vice President Eileen Rundell. "They thought it was a product for the blind. But now we project earnings of from $10 million to $12 million this year, more than 17 times the first-year volume...