Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distinguishing between excessive force and legitimate self-defense can be difficult. In Cordele, Ga. (pop. 12,100), for example, the local prosecutor did not see fit to bring a charge of manslaughter against a store owner who responded to small thefts from his cigarette machine by booby-trapping it after business hours with dynamite, an act that resulted in the death of a teen-aged tamperer. But a court awarded civil damages to the boy's mother. Traditionally, though, juries asked to consider burglars' rights sympathize with the property owners rather than the intruders. It may be only a matter...
...kept missing a big national break. He had a national hit single in 1969 with his hard-driving Ramblin 'Gamblin 'Man, but trouble with his band kept him from touring to promote it properly. By the time he had finished his third album, Seger, with half a dozen local hits behind him, was back to living on $7,000 a year...
That song made Bob Seger a national star after a decade of hard traveling. Now he has a fine new record, Stranger in Town, out just a few weeks and already following an unerring trajectory to the headier regions of the charts. It should prove that this particular local boy is not only a national star but something of a vital natural resource...
...current of sadness that runs through his music, Seger remains a modest, ebullient figure who still drives him self home from local concerts in a red BMW. A working-class kid from Ann Arbor, Seger lives with his steady girl in a modest ranch house 50 miles from Detroit. Fans have discovered the address, and "just the other night," Seger reports, "a girl tried to get into the kitchen...
...have generally been reluctant to send uncooperative reporters to jail. In fact, after last week's decision, Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti said that the Justice Department would draw up procedures limiting federal searches of newsrooms and would seek subpoenas before search warrants. He could not guarantee, however, that local judges and police would show similar restraint...