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...Nobody can get you out," warned the TV spots announcing Massachusetts' new Bartley-Fox law. It imposed a mandatory one-year sentence for those caught carrying guns away from their homes or places of business without the necessary permits. Because registration requirements were unchanged, even gun clubs joined in supporting the law which went into effect April 1, 1975. And up to a point it worked: 100,000 gun owners "living in sin" rushed to get authorization for their weapons that first month-ten times the usual number. But what was the effect on the crime rate...
That debacle probably convinced Rockefeller that there was no future in Eastern Establishment positions. Rockefeller has compensated with a vengeance for his earlier heresies, breathing reactionary rhetoric with the worst of them. He pushed through a one-year residency rule for welfare recipients in 1970, bragging later that "I decided to get the cheats and chiselers off the taxpayers' back." This action was followed by repressive (and ineffective) mandatory sentencing measures for drug dealers and users, as well as the Attica murders...
...good reason, therefore, do many of Africa's most respected leaders privately express their revulsion for Amin. At last week's annual summit meeting of the Organization of African Unity, where Amin's one-year term as chairman ended, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda pointedly refused to shake his hand. Several days later, a Kenyan government statement probably best summed it up, with some exaggeration, when it pitied "the peace-loving people of Uganda" for living under "the world's greatest dictator...
...One of Kauper's major accomplishments in office was to lobby successfully for stiffer penalties against price-fixers (threeyear prison sentences for individuals and $1 million corporate fines v. the previous one-year sentences and $50,000 fines). But after 19 months on the books, the new felony penalties have never been successfully invoked. More to Kauper's credit has been the rise in public awareness of antitrust and its relation to consumer wellbeing. Says one department official: "There is now a constituency for antitrust." Unfortunately for Kauper's successor, who may be Cornell University Law Professor...
BOSTON--The NHL yesterday declared Bobby Orr, all-star defenseman of the Bruins, a free agent, along with 81 other players whose contracts have expired or who have played out their one-year option period...