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...avowed supporters of the death penalty in murder cases think the Texas proposal would be a bad idea. "If you give the same sentence for molesting a little girl as for molesting and killing a little girl, it seems an incentive to go ahead and kill her," said Michael Rushford, head of the pro-death penalty Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif...
...Delbert Kahoun, 57, and his cheery wife Christine, 60, like to tell how their 600-acre dairy farm near the southeastern Minnesota town of Rushford (pop. 1,500) has survived through six generations, beginning in 1864. "All the timber on this farm, every acre here, was cleared by my great-grandfather and my grandfather," says Kahoun. "My grandmother had tree cutters to feed all winter." Now the white two-story farmhouse, where the Kahouns had lived for 37 years, is occupied by their son Philip, 26, his wife Debbie and their three children. The elder Kahouns have moved into...
Equally precarious is the fledgling government of Sir Paul Scoon, the island's Governor-General. Two weeks ago, Antony Rushford, a Briton who was appointed by the Commonwealth to be Scoon's legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore democracy to the island. The leaders of Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer the country until elections can be held, admit that they may be dangerously out of touch with some of their poorer countrymen who benefited from Bishop's rule. "The revolution...
...problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked Grenada in recent years. Scoon's legal adviser, Commonwealth Constitutional Scholar Antony Rushford, says that Grenada's British-style Independence Constitution of 1973 will be revived in stages, returning the island to a two-house parliamentary system and a majority-elected Prime Minister. Trouble is, the island's political parties are, according to one high-ranking U.S. official there, "in various stages...
...ball had been set rolling. Farm prices were riding high, and other farmers began to tithe. This week Pastor Rushford preached his first sermon in a bright new church, complete with a modern kitchen, social room, children's department, and a 60-ft. spire. The church cost $100,000; of this, $60,000 is already in the bank, and the remaining $40,000 is scheduled to be paid off within five years...