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...cold-blooded murder, contends Rubin, but "was just acting out a television script." The defense has claimed that circumstances of the crime were eerily similar to two recent episodes of Kojak and a Dracula movie Zamora watched the night before the murder. For its part, the prosecution disputes the plea of insanity, pointing out, for instance, that after the murder, Zamora treated four friends to a long weekend of fun at Disney World, compliments, he told them, of his father...
...Beautiful," Paxton calls his wife, "the loveliest women a man ever knew." Paxton runs the risk of using enough saccharine to kill a tubful of Canadian rats, but this sentimental ode at least provides a suitable contrast to Paxton's political commentary. "There Goes the Mountain," Paxton's plea for preservation of nature, also combines sweet and bitter in just the right proportions. Steve Goodman harmonizes as Paxton personifies the mountain, the "avalanche-maker, heaven's caretaker." Paxton stimulates nostalgia for Earth Day with his revival of concern for the environment...
...that Campbell's charge was wholly unsupported by anyone else, that no one on the committee had asked him about the claim before the report reached the press, and that Campbell had consistently told his lawyers, the prosecuting attorneys, and the federal judge who presided over his guilty plea that no one had conspired with him in his thefts. Yet headlines had, indeed, linked Lance with the embezzlement charge-inevitably, considering the Senators' statements...
...adults. Yet prosecutors found more than half the cases so flimsy they refused to press charges. Judges tossed out an additional 8%, and in 6% there was no action at all because the defendants simply vanished. The upshot: only 33% of those arrested were ever brought to court for plea or trial. The report acknowledges that factors in the poor conviction record may include the shortage of policemen and such restrictions on police power as the still controversial Miranda rule, which requires the arresting officer to inform the suspect of his rights to counsel and to remain silent...
...parents who despair that their children will ever receive a proper public education. "These quality programs exist in reality in only a few places, while hundreds of thousands of children are totally neglected," reports Narrator Patricia Neal, herself once paralyzed by a stroke. The program ends with a plea to see that the act is properly implemented ("Talk to your P.T.A., principals, to the school board"). After the film, 109 of the stations are to broadcast follow-ups in which special education teachers, legislators and parents of the handicapped will be available to answer phone-in questions...