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Many Filipinos doubted that Buscayno, a Communist guerrilla since the age of 16, could have been caught in such a simple, old-fashioned trap. To them it seemed more likely to have been a typical Filipino maneuver: lutong macao, or precooking. Dante might have consented to his own capture because of tension within his movement between younger urban activists and rural guerrillas like himself...
...atop a tower in New Jersey's Brigantine National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month. Two amateur falconers, Daniel Hays and Edward Howard, both 24, are living in a tent near the tower and keeping an eye on the nesting box. They will feed the young falcons through a trap door in the box (so the birds will not become accustomed to taking food from humans) until shortly after they make their first kill. Then, to learn more about the falcons' habits after they begin hunting on their own, Hays and Howard will track them by means of tiny...
...Trap for Whom? Today there seems to be a rise in the number of such claims, but in fact the concept has never enjoyed much judicial support. In 1864 a Judge Bacon of New York remembered that the plea was "first interposed in Paradise: 'The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.' That defense was overruled by the great Lawgiver, and [it] has never since availed." Well, hardly ever. The defense was recognized for the first time in a federal court in 1915. In two later cases-involving a police agent in 1932 who begged an acquaintance...
...enforcement organizations try to police themselves. The Los Angeles and Washington departments have strict guidelines for decoys on prostitute patrols. Plainclothes, for example, means plain indeed-no hot pants or see-through blouses. "The way some of our female officers dress, they look like they couldn't trap a bulldog with two pounds of hamburger," says one Washington cop. But Assistant Los Angeles City Attorney George Eskin concedes that some suggestive acts may not get reported: "The undercover female officer isn't going to say I winked at him and he responded...
...Houston Grand Opera, where the show last week completed an eight-day run. With former American Ballet Theater President Sherwin Goldman joining in as coproducer, Porgy this week begins a six-week engagement at Philadelphia's Academy of Music, and after that it will move to the Wolf Trap center outside Washington, D.C., then to Toronto and Ottawa. If enough people like it during the tour, Porgy will come to Broadway in the fall, where it ran for 124 performances in 1935-36 and again for 305 performances...