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Unusual puni:
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP
year-old son died after sh<
was following a noted
technique, her attorney sa
Betty Mentry, 45, whos
manslaughter is to begin
punishing her son, Steve,
playing with matches, acc
Defense attorney Cyril t
the therapy by the Alum
counselor "complimentec
boy's behavior."
But center Director Gi
Mentry was never given si
"I am just flabbergast)
said. "Child abuse is chilc
You still, as an adult, woui
your child."
The punishment resem
late Dr. Milton Erickson,
hypnotist, a counselor for
Dr. Jeffrey Zeig, direc
dation in Phoenix, said
disciplinary measure - u
Erickson. If used properl)
According to police, she
sitting on him. Her
emergency help after hei
and she found he had stop]
The son, Steven, died M;
"This was not the first t
the technique. "She had <
before."
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FORT COLLINS, Colo,
surprise last week when 1
account and a bank teller I
The man, whom Fort <
nau uui nuutcu iiict l uit;
Bank had a robbery me
Detective Frank Russell.
The message said, "I
armed."
When the teller saw the
button and then began h
money from her cash dra\
The teller explained to
requested, but it was all si
The detective said the ]
me all this money for? I oi
By that time, police h
agents were inside tne Dui
"The kid had no idea
"He was the victim in this
Officials have not loc
message, but they think i
said the detective.
Judge weds
NORTHAMPTON, Mas:
and Joelle Boyd got marr
who wore white - white ?
cast.
Presiding from his hos
with red hearts, William (
be faithful "in sickness ai
on Valentine's Day.
The 33 year-old justice
Cooley Dickinson Hospita
on a flooded road and pit*
and shoulder were disloca
Unwilling to put off the
officiate, Thibido and
O'Riordan's hospital rooi
hearts and Cupids.
Marrying people is one
the peace, said O'Rion
probation officer for the h
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KANSAS CITY, MO (A
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Valentine's Day present
service's operator a holid
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i in Superior Court this week, was am
, for having stolen 6 cents and for 1
:ording to police. 4 4T
\sh said Mentry was advised to use rev
Rock Counseling Center and that a cal
1 her" and said it had "helped the J
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jorce Doub. in an interview, said Pre
uch advice. tha
ed by this attempt at defense," he 'tot
I abuse. The attorney knows better. (IB
Id be aware of when you are hurting tha
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bled a technique developed by the val
, a noted Phoenix psychiatrist and cril
the defense said Tuesday. Cog
:tor of the Milton Erickson Foun- T
the technique - not intended as a Wa
/as described in a 1962 article by son
\ he said, it is not life-endangering. whi
awakened the boy to punish him by woi
10-year-old daughter called for for
* brother's screams awakened her org
:>ed breathing. Kei
ay 31, his ninth birthday. P
ime," Ash said of his client's use of say
lone this on two or three occasions T
ilarms customer [jj
(AP) ? A 24-year-old man got a
le asked for $200 from his checking j
began handing him piles of money. \m
Collins police declined to identify,
withdrawal slip he used at United
issage written on the back, said j?|?
want $10,000 in small bills. I am H
note, she pushed the robbery alarm H
anding the confused customer the H
ver, Russell said.
the man that it wasn't what he'd III
tie had on hand, Russell said.
man replied, "What are you giving
nly want $200." 11
ad surrounded the bank, and FBI |j
lding.
what was going on," Russell said. |||
fhinrr "
:ated the person who wrote the
it was just a "bad practical joke,"
in hospital bed ?
s. (AP) ? When Raymond Thibodo
ied, it was the justice of the peace
*auze, surgical tape and a plaster
pital bed in a nightgown speckled
)'Riordan heard the two promise to |||
rid in health" during visiting hours
of the peace has been in traction in
1 since Feb. 3 when his car skidded
2hed into a ravine. O'Riordan's hip
ted. kr
ceremony or find another person to
Boyd brought the wedding to
n, decorated for the occasion with
of the rewards of being a justice of
Jan, whose full-time job is chief D
lampshire Probate Court.
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ency telephone serivce "the perfect
," but one caller didn't extend the
lay greeting.
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ting 1.1 million people in the Kansas
police dispatchers.
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arc
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department. "I don't IT_
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LTLANTA (AP)- A Presbyterian s
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oad has run into criticism from a i
up called the Institute on Religion 1
1 Democracy in Washington.
'he IRD claims the Presbyterian c
hird World" projects help i
olutionary movements of what it s
Is the "non-democratic left." t
ames Cogswell, co-director of the \
anta-based Presbyterian Hunger s
)gram, said, "The accusation is \
t we assist programs of the
alitarian left.' That is a term they C
:D) use very freely of programs (
tare critical of American policy. c
They put it in terms of democratic p
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ues, uul u reany geu> aown 10 o
Licism of American policy,"
{swell said. c
he IRD is planning a conference in s
shington this weekend to "develop r
le ideas on alternative ways in 1
ich Christians can continue their v
k and still maintain some respect (3
democratic values," said the fc
anization's director, Penn c
nble. *
resbyterian hunger relief officials
they will not attend. c
he Presbyterian program is F
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leach for the sky
Harold Odom, a graduate student and mer
ince Company, jumps high in Susan Earle'
ass.
mory professoi
AP)? Scientific writings on a
nan behavior based on studies in h
noa have kicked the Samoans c
>und "Like a football," says Bradd 4
are, a professor at Emory
iversity. o
Jhore is critical of both Margaret
sad, who wrote ''Coming of Age in
moa" in 1928, and of Derek ?
eeman, an Australian anopologist
who claims that Mead's
servations contained some serious 0
ws. v
Mead's book became a basic college d
thropology textbook. She described r
2 Samoans as a peaceful and gentle
l _ + " 1
opie, wun a iree attuuae about q
emarital sex permitting their youth t
mature without the turmoil which 4
jgues young people in other r
ltures. c
freeman argues that the Samoans d
e intensely competitive and t
ijects aid lefi
jponsored by the Presbyter
Church in the U.S., with headquarl
n Atlanta, and the Uni
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
The IRD is a two-year-old
lependent research institute wl
nvestigates the overseas program
some religious groups. Kemble j
he IRD opposes some progn
vhich "appeared to us not to t
iufficient account of democr
values."
The IRD has criticized the W<
Council of Churches and the Natic
Council of Churches of Chi
Maiming that their social jus
trograms aid leftist movements
leveloping countries.
"What we're trying to do in
-.uiuerence is reauy lO CUSC
itrategies of agricultural deve
nent which respect human rights
iberties and see if we can't comc
vith some ideas for Third W<
levelopment which promises to
etter both for body and soul that
hurches could be supportin
Cemble said.
Cogswell said he believes the IR
riticism of the Presbyterian Hun
*rogram may be only one of a sei
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Paul Simmon*
that many di(
W ednesday.
them well can
be any reason
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one of the dec
Capt. Harold (
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Orangeburg a
sides of the cit
Dr. J.E. SI
Hospital, perf
initial report.
"I'm a long
adding it coul
was done.
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dying of crib d
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"is probably <
one month." ?
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liber of the USC said. "They h
s beginning jazz when babies s
believed caus
"They thouj
answer. Not y
r critical of S
iggressive, with high rates
lomicide, assault and rape.
onienas tnai tney have an inte
'cult of female virginity."
Shore studied in Samoa for four;
>ne-half years. He said he's anno
it the controversy.
'It seems to me that the Samo;
re being kind of kicked around lik
ootball in the literature," he se
These are real people, not the kin<
ne-dimensional photos that peo
/ant them to be."
He said he believes the curr
lebate is yet another replay of the
tature vs. nurture argument.
But it also involves some ba
[uestions about the science of
I 1
hi upuiogy. r or example, ne as
'How is it possible that I
easonably intelligent observers <
ome back from the same society t
tescribe it in virtually oppoi
errns?"
lists, group says
ian of such attacks against social justice
ters and developing programs among
ted Protestant denominations.
He said the PHP spent $3.5 million
in- in 1982, and representatives of the two
rich major Presbyterian denominations
sof decided how the money would be
said spent.
ims
ake Cogswell said the problems of
atic trying to feed the hungry go much
deeper than simply finding those who
)rld need the help.
mal "Hunger work, especially when the
*ist, churches first became deeply contice
cerned and involved, was something
i in that just had 100 percent unanimous
support from everybody, because it
this was dealing with an issue that
:uss everybody could understand," he
lop- said.
and
i up "But as the struggle with the issues
)rld grew deeper, you had to go beyond
do relief and development projects, to
our see there are structures that keep
g," people hungry. People have become
victims of systems tliat keep them
D's from being able to provide food for
ger themselves, and that's where it
ries becomes controversial.''
* crib deaths
rentlv unrelated
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URG (AP) ? Three babies who died within
sther of sudden infant death syndrome were not
ere treated by different doctors, said Coroner
>.
- 4 months old, 5 months old and 6 months old r.
Preliminary autopsies showed they died of
death syndrome, or SIDS.
erience in the last 15 years, I have never seen
; m one day from crib death," Simmons said
PHESE children were healthy infants, all of
jd for," the coroner said. "There didn't seem to
for the deaths."
isitated to say all three died of SIDS ? comas
crib death ? until final autopsy results are
ssts for poisoning.
1. "There's nothing to indicate anvthinc pIsp 1
u / o
> injuries to the children. They didn't appear to
sed."
; city police will continue an investigation into
iths until the final autopsy results are known,
barter said.
VNT came from outside the immediate |
irea, while the other two were from opposite
y of 33,000, Simmons said.
tiippey, pathologist at Orangeburg Regional
ormed autopsies on the infants and gave the
way from finishing my work," Shippey said,
d be "maybe months, maybe days" before he
iatrician, who asked not to be identified, told
urg Times and Democrat that three infants
leath in one area on the same day was "way out
*y unusual."
octor added that sudden infant death syndrome
)ne of the leading causes of infant death after
le said birth defects are the leading cause.
f sudden infant death svndrome is unknown, he
ave suggested aspiration," he said. "Years ago
ilept with their mothers, it was suffocation they
ed it.
ght it might be the thymus gland, but there is no
et," the pediatrician said.
iamoan studv
M
of He said he believes that both
He Freeman and Mead present a onense
dimensional view of the Samoans,
adding that Mead acknowledged later
and that she might have missed some
yed aspects of the Samoan culture.
"She comes out with extraordinary
ans integrity in the end," he said
e a Shore, 37, was a Peace Corps
lid. volunteer. He later returned to the
iof South Sea islands to work on his
pie doctoral thesis. For his research, he
chose a village which appeared to be
ent "conflict-prone."
old He said he found his hypothesis
uncannily accurate when a village
isic chief with whom he lived was muran
dered by the son of a rival chief,
ks, "Eventually, I found myself stuck
:wo between mourning this man and
:an having to collect data," he said. He
ind used the mnrdpr us a ?;nrinr*hniirH for
site his examination of aggression and
how Samoan society controls it.
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