Lead Stories
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Tough guys: In Paris in December, just before being convicted of the murders of two counterespionage agents, international terrorist Carlos the Jackal was sentenced to ten days’ solitary confinement for calling a prison guard a “gnu.” Two weeks later, Montreal Canadiens defenseman Dave Manson underwent surgery to remove a Christmas tree needle that had gotten stuck in his ear.
Compelling Explanations
The Continuing Crisis
City council member Ed Walker of Brier, Washington, was charged in September with spitting on a neighbor who had put up a yard sign supporting Walker’s opponent in the upcoming election. Said the neighbor to a reporter, “We’ve got him dead to rights. All we need is a sample of his spit [for DNA testing].”
Latest attempts by women to use the law to enforce prostitution contracts: In November three teenage girls were arrested after they called police in Oneida, New York, to ask for help because a man had paid them for sex with a check from an out-of-state bank that the girls couldn’t get cashed. And in June a judge in Salt Lake City dismissed Kathleen Ferguson’s lawsuit against her bank for repossessing her truck. Ferguson had claimed she could keep the truck because she worked out a deal by having sex with the repo man.
