Word: misbehavior
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Michigan statute holding them civilly liable for a minor's malicious damage up to $1,500, or making their children wards of the court. Neither method worked well, partly because officials were loath to punish middle-class parents. As a result, parents tended to be tolerant about offspring misbehavior. "Their attitude was that it's kid stuff," says Chief Richardson. "Now that attitude changes when the police say 'If it happens again, you're the one in trouble because of the kid stuff...
...Supreme Court nominees made most of Washington jittery about predicting how President Nixon's third choice would fare. Certainly, if only in a show of consistency, the Senators will carefully examine the credentials of last week's nominee, Minnesotan Harry A. Blackmun. Barring any disclosures of judicial misbehavior, the general approval greeting the nomination makes it all but certain that the President has finally come up with a winner...
...trip (see following story). Their stories so angered Nigerian officials that the newsmen were detained at Port Harcourt for two days until diplomatic protests freed them. Later, at a press conference, Gowon defended his troops: "We don't expect miracles. Is anyone willing to say there is not misbehavior in their own armies...