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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial last month, guess what? Erik denied doing the shooting. It did not help. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years to life. Says Whalen: "He showed no awareness of conscience or remorse. He grinned like crazy. He probably figures that prison is not a hell of a lot worse than other places he's been...
Cloud Seeding. In Vienna, Ga., home town of President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, Dooly County Farm Agent Mack Sloan manages a weak wisecrack: "If it don't rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week...
After all the squabbling, the fact remains that the Carter Administration has made clear its impatience with Jerusalem as well as its conviction that, in return for peace. Israel must withdraw from virtually all conquered territories and accept some kind of home for the Palestinians. That leaves a lot to be negotiated, including what sort of peace and when, but the basic U.S. position seems sound and inevitable...
...Administration is persuaded that the Caracas regime can play a valuable role as a bridge-one of Pérez's favorite words-to the nonindustrial countries. The U.S., says a White House aide, needs "the support of a key leader of the Third World on a lot of major is sues. Venezuela has influence where we have none or little." Carter listened with interest to Pérez's advocacy of a new economic deal for the Third World because "for better or for worse," as one U.S. diplomat put it, Washington recognizes...
...punk's pleasure. Swing-bred parents of the 1950s may have found Elvis Presley corrupt (as did CBS-TV, which cut him off above the pelvis), but the kids loved him. Folk-and rock-bred parents of the 1970s may not love the Dead Boys, but a lot of the kids do. The biggest catastrophe for punk rock would of course be huge success. How does a rebel maintain his pose while earning $ 1 million a year...