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Call It Hate Economically, they are the "marginal" whites who earn be tween $5,000 and $10,000 a year and represent 40% of American families. They are factory workers, storekeepers, small farmers, cab drivers, policemen, firemen, longshoremen, post al clerks, many public school teachers - and a number of the elderly. In theory, they have never been so prosperous...
...code, the result of a six-year study by a special commission of the Connecticut general assembly, reforms a number of antiquated Connecticut sex laws, some dating back to 1642. Accepting the commission's recommendation that all sexual activity be tween two consenting, mentally competent adults "is no business of the criminal law," the code eliminates adultery, homosexuality and lascivious car riage as punishable acts...
Elsewhere, most sexual relations out side marriage - and some within - are criminal offenses. Adultery and forni cation are commonly outlawed. Sodomy is illegal in nearly every state, even be tween spouses; New York is an ex ception that does not bar it within marriage. Until a new code goes into effect next July, a too ardent lover in Kansas can get up to five years at hard labor for successfully luring his girl friend to bed, and up to 21 years for merely trying. In Indianapolis, simply entering the motel room of a person of the opposite sex (subject...
...represents a compromise be tween West Germany's two major political parties over how to cope with the burden of the Nazi past. Arguing that the German people can only expiate their national guilt by bringing the wartime offenders to jus tice, the Socialists favored abolishing the statute of limitations on all forms of mur der, including even homicide by civilians in peacetime...
...already unhappy relations be tween the U.S. and Peru took another turn for the worse last week. The latest trouble was caused by the seizure of an American fishing boat. The boat - the fourth U.S. tuna clipper taken captive this year - was fined for having violated the 200-mile limit claimed for Peru's territorial waters (the U.S. recognizes only a 12-mile limit for fishing rights). In some exasperation, Administration officials in Washington leaked the news that the U.S. was suspending arms sales to Peru...