Word: hinckley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NORTH AMERICAN ANIMAL ALMANAC by Darryl Stewart Stewart, Tabori &Chang; 351 pages; $14.95 May is the best month for observing the grizzly bear, from a proper distance, of course. March is the best time to study the turkey vulture, especially in the tiny hamlet of Hinckley, Ohio, to which, like the swallows that regularly come back to Capistrano, the scavenging birds return every year. February, however, is not the ideal time to look for groundhogs. The woodchuck does awaken from his winter torpor earlier than most other ground animals but rarely as early as Feb. 2-unless roused from...
...preposterous to hold creators responsible for the indirect effects of their speech or publications on certain dangerously impressionable members of society. Ought President Reagan to be able to sue Jodie Foster and Martin Scorsese because they inspired John Hinckley? One is reminded of the trial in Florida a few years ago, in which a juvenile delinquent claimed that his crimes stemmed from a Kojak addiction...
SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...
ALTHOUGH STUDIES have shown that local gun laws do have some effect in reducing crime, ultimately these laws are undermined by the lack of federal guidelines. Washington, D.C. itself provides an excellent example of how local controls can be nullified by weak laws elsewhere in the country. John W. Hinckley Jr., a man with a history of psychiatric problems, shot four men in downtown Washington with a gun he had easily purchased in a Dallas pawnshop. The absence of strong controls in Texas rendered the D.C. law moot...
...addition, opponents of the bills said yesterday that the media coverage of would-be Presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr.'s trial had exaggerated the problem of the insanity defense, which they said is rarely used...