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...Year's Eve, Belfast was rocked by eight explosions. Gunmen fired on a police precinct house, while soldiers had to break up a riot between Catholic and Protestant youths. Earlier in the week, a sniper in Londonderry killed a patrolling soldier. The trooper, 20-year-old Richard Ham, was the 43rd British soldier killed during 1971, and the 206th person since the major riots of 1969. As if to emphasize the sense of despair that pervades the province...
When eleven-year-old Elizabeth Lee reached into a lion cage at an Anchorage amusement park, a 300-lb. lioness named Cleo seized her arm in its teeth. Alaska State Trooper Frank Johnson raced to the rescue, pulled out his pistol and shot the lion in the head. As the lion fell dead, both Johnson and the girl went sprawling; Johnson's gun accidentally went off again, and the girl was wounded in the thigh...
Elizabeth eventually recovered, but she filed a $65,000 damage suit against the trooper, the amusement park and the state of Alaska. The jury decided that the amusement park should pay her $ 15,000 in damages because the cage was inadequately guarded. It rejected the rest of Elizabeth's claim...
...Trooper Johnson, the law has taken a strange twist. The Alaska Supreme Court has now reversed the ruling absolving him. As an officer, said the court, Johnson was under a legal obligation to provide aid; he cannot be protected by any good Samaritan statute. Elizabeth, now 15, is therefore free to press her complaint of negligence. The court added, however, that if Johnson is found at fault, Alaska too would be liable. In that case, the state would presumably pay the bill...
...finishing school toward the end of the Civil War. A ten-year-old student named Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin), stumbles on a gravely wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood). Instead of turning him over to a Confederate patrol, the girls and their two teachers (Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) nurse the trooper to health. The gently held prisoner coolly plays off his jailers against each other, hinting marriage to one teacher, making advances toward the other, titillating students. When his duplicity is uncovered, The Beguiled concludes in violent retribution and double-edged revenge...