Word: wisconsin
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...opinion. In two successful murder defenses of recent years, feminists succeeded in "raising the consciousness" of the national public about the emotional problems of Southern black women in the Joan Little case and rape victims in the Inez Garcia trial. Now they hope to shift the spotlight to a Wisconsin trial and the battered-wife syndrome...
...defense fund has been formed by Wisconsin feminists to "inform the public of a woman's right to protect herself against physical and emotional attack." Though self-defense is still an adequate excuse for violence only in immediate, severe danger, now, notes New Jersey Lawyer Robert Ansell, "the cumulative effect of beatings on a woman's consciousness is often considered. A woman may well be allowed quicker resort to a weapon than a man." That worries some lawmen. Says Sheriff Lawrence Schmies of Waupaca: "I wonder if these people know what they're doing. If they...
...recorded the lowest goals against average in Italy (hey, it may not be much, but it is something you can tell your grandchildren) while leading the S.G. Cortina Doria Club to the Italian ice hockey championship. Bertagna returned to the states last year to play for a team in Wisconsin while attending Marquette's School of Journalism. But the rough and tumble semi-pro existence, complete with 12-hour bus rides, booster clubs and other low life proved too seamy for Bertagna, who turned to the typewriter instead...
Most worrisome of all, though, is Carter's continuing failure to set a strong direction on economic policy. "We're adrift," complains Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee. "Carter will never win businessmen's confidence by saying that he wants to be loved. What businessmen respect, rightly, is mastery...
...effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just fed up with being equated with evil if they vote against Nader...