Pleading Entrapment in Howe Utah Case Sparks Debate
The Howe entrapment defense in Utah raised questions about police role and law in undercover operations. Courts have wrestled with whether officials planting criminal intent invalidate prosecutions, while observers note entrapment’s limits and enduring use in drug and prostitution cases.
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Allan T. Howe
Utah
Salt Lake City
Tom Goldstein
New York Times
U.S. Supreme Court
Goldstein
Congressman Howe
Fayetteville
Raleigh
Howe
N.C. Civil Liberties Union
High Point
Misleading Claims by Senator McNeill Smith on Power Costs
The Guilford senator advocates peak price plans to curb consumer costs and criticizes private power firms for building costly plants. He cites a 38 percent capacity usage claim, omitting that steam units require regular dismantling and that hydro plants vary with water, while plants were planned before the recession and construction slowed as demand fell.
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Guilford
McNeill Smith
Smith
Bell book and candle origins in excommunication rite
The phrase appears in Cervantes and Shakespeare and in Barham’s The Jackdaw of Rheims. In church history the Greater Excommunication, adopted in the eighth century, involved ringing a bell opening a book and extinguishing a candle to mark the cursed person as cut off from prayers and the life of the Book of Life.
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Cervantes
Shakespeare
R.H. Barham
Rheims
John Myre
Lilleshall
Lawrence Sterne
Stout Receives Housing Leadership Honor In High Point
The Housing Authority of High Point and the Rotary Club honored former Mayor Carson Stout for long service as chair and his role in major housing advances. A framed resolution from Richard Barnwell lauded his leadership in replacing ghettos with 1161 public housing units and 150 low rent units, plus 571 new homes in East Central Redevelopment. The event included a standing ovation and remarks on his civic impact across business, religion, and community life.
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High Point
Rotary Club
Carson Stout
Housing Authority
Richardson Preyer
Stout
Ford
Congressional Hall
Mart
Tial
East Central
Richard Barnwell
Office of Housing and Urban Development
Authority
James L. Roberts
High Point College
General Greene Bay Scout Council
Greensboro
Ben Assery
Columbus, Ohio
General Greene Council
Richardson Foundation
H. Smith Richardson
Jim Morgan
United States Jaycee Organization
Bob Benton
High Point Lions Club
Guilford County
Jotn A. Shuler
Oakview Lions Club
Jaycees
Dick Behrends
Executive Digest
Thomas D. Tyson
Untibe
Quaker Lane
Westwood
Peacemakers Try to Unite Ford Reagan Ticket at Kansas City
Republican insiders seek a Ford Reagan ticket to beat Carter Mondale. A priority list includes Howard Baker Connally Richardson with others considered by Ford. Reagan aides hedge with a Ford Reagan fallback while Ford wary of credibility gaps and South impact. Carter and Mondale face early leads as Democrats probe defense and reform stances.
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Washington
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Ford Camp
Reagan
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Treasury
John Connally
Commerce
Elliot Richardson
Ford
Britain
Ann Armstrong
Christopher Bond
Missouri
William Brock
Dan Evans
Charles Percy
Illinois
Robert Ray
Iowa
Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale
South
Jimmy Carrier
Sen
Baker
Senate
Everett Dirksen
France
Senate Sp
Carter
Connally
Richardson
Northeast
Busing and the elusive gains in desegregation
A Riverside California 10 year study finds that voluntary desegregation through busing did not improve minority students achievement or motivation. White pupils from low income families showed some self esteem gains, but minority grades declined or stagnated. The authors caution that busing alone does not raise minority education.
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Boston
Riverside
Calif
Norman Miller
University of Southern California
Harold B. Gerard
UCLA
Psychology Today Magazine
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Staten Island
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Heathfield
England
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Point Comfort
Chesapeake Bay
America
Roberts
HPC
Humanics Foundation
Department of Human Relations
High Point Memorial Hospital
Indianapolis
Boy Scouts
Milwaukee
Missouri Valley College
Marshall
UNCG
Milwaukee Hospital
Butler College
Guilford and
Randolph
Trinity Townships
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REE Journal
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