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...Richter Scale readings nearly everywhere. On the same Tuesday that Proposition 13 swept to victory, taxpayers in Ohio turned down 86 of 139 school tax levies, including emergency outlays designed to save public schools in Cleveland and Columbus from bankruptcy. Conservative candidates for the U.S. Senate won victories in Iowa and New Jersey by campaigning hard for tax cuts. Twenty-three state legislatures have called for an unprecedented constitutional convention to weigh an amendment requiring the Federal Government to operate on a balanced budget. Limits on state and local spending have been enacted in three states (Colorado, New Jersey...
Legras might have fared even worse in the U.S. Almost all U.S. law schools teach the common law doctrine that "spring guns," booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when...
...that the state's civil liability law applied only to bars, restaurants and liquor stores, not partygivers. Said the majority: No one can serve booze "under conditions involving a reasonably foreseeable risk of harm to others." California thus joins a small but growing group of states, including New York, Iowa and Oregon, where a too generous host can be held liable for his tipsy guests' excesses...
...IOWA (June 6). The Republican Party's conservative and moderate factions are competing for the nomination to oppose Democratic Senator Dick Clark. Ahead in the polls so far is Roger Jepsen, 49, a former state senator and two-term Lieutenant Governor who campaigns as "the right Republican." He is opposed to abortion, gun control and the Panama Canal treaties. Carrying the G.O.P. banner of moderation is Maurice Van Nostrand, 53, an ally of popular Governor Robert Ray. Van Nostrand says that a Jepsen-Clark contest would lead to a Republican defeat of Goldwater proportions...
Dick Clark, the Iowa Democrat who had introduced the measure in 1976. They asked his advice on a plan by which the U.S. could channel aid to one of the anti-Neto guerrilla factions in Angola?presumably to pressure the Luanda government to put a tighter rein on both its Cuban and Katangese guests. After some thought, Clark concluded that the scheme would violate the law and that he would oppose...