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...question here (for those readers who have been ignoring Cincinnati since its heinous transgressions of the will of God in the world series last fall) is freedom of the press, the press being a smut magazine which manages to offend more people than all its competitors combined. But more interesting than any of the legal issues raised by the conviction is the ambivalent nature of the anger which surrounds it. Everyone who has voiced public disapproval of the court decision, from Nat Hentoff and Nora Ephron to the New York Times, has prefaced his comments with a strong statement deploring...
These "quirky cases" in which some heinous crime has been committed comprise only about 5 to 10 per cent of all juvenile offenses in Massachusetts. For these juvenile offenders--deemed dangerous to themselves and to others by the courts--the governor has included a clause in his proposed budget for fiscal year 1978 that would allocate $1.7 million toward the implementation of 50 new secured slots. The state hopes to be able to utilize and expand upon existing secured facilities, rather than constructing new ones...
...which brings me to a certain fear I have, the fear of misunderstanding. Today--taking in the spectacle of Suze Craig in a terrible mess for doing nothing more heinous than things I do on every teaching day--today, I feel just a bit desperate. A line of a song from the sixties comes back to me: "Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood!" Larry Weinstein
...hope that Mr. Schorr, through the power of his pen and his vote, will continue, as I will, to prod the correction system into implementing the vast improvements it urgently needs. But let us not be slipshod and misdirected in pointing the accusatory finger; misplaced guilt is no less heinous a crime than its absolution. Mitchell Weiss
...Reagan and Schweiker claimed they found some areas of general agreement: skepticism about the Government as the primary means of solving social problems, opposition to busing, amnesty, gun control and abortion, criticism of the Ford Administration's handling of détente, resumption of the death penalty for heinous crimes. Reagan was especially impressed by Schweiker's devotion to religion and his family. According to an aide, Reagan concluded that Schweiker was "a guy he can live with." Yet on many of the topics discussed, the conversation was strained-until Reagan said, "Dick, I'd like...