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...Local prosecutors select their career violators using individual systems. Louisville targets suspects with two previous felony convictions or five arrests. Washington concentrates on parolees who are arrested again, for a crime of violence; Detroit zeros in on three-time offenders charged with murder, rape, household burglary and armed robbery. Boston uses a "case evaluation form," based on a ten-point penalty system. Penalty points are given for brutality, use of firearms, parole or bail status at the time of the crime, and even strength of the evidence against the suspect. Any suspect who gets ten points or more gets...
...program has cost LEAA only $14 million (of $4.8 billion spent by the agency in the years 1972 through 1977). But federal funding for the project is now being phased out. LEAA officials blame budget cutbacks, noting, however, that successful experiments should be taken over by state and local officials. Most communities are struggling to do just that. Washington, D.C., has been running its version of the program, Operation Doorstop, without LEAA funds for 17 months. When Norfolk's LEAA grant runs out in October, prosecutors plan to work overtime to keep the program alive. New York, New Orleans...
Lake Placid's efforts to bring back the Olympics began in 1973, when local voters approved the idea in a referendum. Congress and President Ford pledged their support the following year. The International Olympic Committee then designated Lake Placid as its choice and also approved Lake Placid's plan to keep the Games within a limited frame...
...have been built for the 90-and 70-meter ski jumps. Construction also has started on a complex to house 1,800 athletes. Once the Games are over, the athletes' village will be converted into a minimum-security federal prison that should provide jobs for some 200 local residents. "Every facility here will have a viable afteruse," says MacKenzie in an obvious reference to the $80 million athletes' housing that has stood empty since the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Like many an Olympic planner before him, MacKenzie promises: "We're not building any white elephants...
...gist of its findings: there is no reason in principle to deny ordination to a "self-affirming practicing homosexual Christian," even one who is "open to" or involved in "full companionship or partnership with a person of the same sex." The new proposal would make it possible for any local congregation to employ a homosexual if it wished. The church's various presbyteries (regional associations) must approve all clergy hiring, and would be free to accept homosexuals, or reject them, without any constraint from the national denomination...