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...TIME'S Press section of Jan. 24, you reported the arrest of Courier-Journal Reporter Frank Ashley in Owsley County, Ky., on charges of impersonating a lawyer in order to interview prisoners in a jail. Ashley had earlier written several articles about nepotism in a federal job program in Owsley County. It was a clear case of a reporter being harassed by local officials who disliked his stories. Ashley came to trial, after a change of venue, in Lee County Circuit Court in June. The jury acquitted him of the charges after deliberating only 23 minutes...
...five judges last week unanimously accepted the Israeli government's view that Lansky was a threat. American authorities had accumulated enough evidence to prove Lansky a criminal, the judges ruled, however minor his actual proven crimes. More than that, wrote Chief Judge Shimon Agranat, a Louisville, Ky. native, in the 83-page precedent-setting decision, "the particular phenomenon of organized crime as it has developed in the U.S. has not yet struck root here in Israel. Heaven forbid that we should encourage opening a door...
...Ashland, Ky...
...Prine's most yearning songs is Paradise, which is not about heaven but a place named Paradise, Ky. "Until I was 15 I didn't know that the word paradise meant anything other than the town in Kentucky where all my relatives came from," explains Prine. The relatives migrated to the Chicago area where John was born, raised (with summers back in Kentucky) and given a high school education of sorts. "But we never took much to the city," says Prine, whose twangy accent, parted-in-the-middle haircut and beltless blue jeans mark him as a Chicago...
...standards are very low," says Yvonne Morris, wife of a blue-collar worker in Decatur, Ga. "There's too much discontent," argues Rhoda Friedberg, a New York City store clerk. "It's a home problem-there is not enough parental supervision," counters Nell B. Coakley of Louisville, Ky. Joan Lefkowitz of Philadelphia sees other factors: "The courts are lax. They allow criminals to walk the streets. Also, drugs are too available...