legal notes. Mr. Jack C. Miller of Collegeville, Pennsylvania has been convicted, fined $10,000, and sentenced to 90 days in the stir for the federal crime of smuggling bull semen into the country. Mr. Caleb Eugene McCauley, appealing his conviction for assault and battery with intent to kill, has failed to win a reversal with the argument that the prosecution had failed to establish that his victim was a human being: the judge ruled that the victim’s testimony in the original trial was proof of his humanness. Miss Jacqueline Florence Frewin, a Canadian tourist, was nailed on a morals charge and fined $36 for walking down the main street of Lamu, Kenya in a bikini “and thereby causing a common annoyance to the public.” Mr. Garret D. Zwart of Anaheim, California was the recent victim of a mistaken identity drug raid by federal officers. The officers quickly realized they had the wrong suspect when they found no drugs in Zwart’s apartment. All they found were a few hundred forged credit cards, driver’s licenses, and birth certificates, and six submachine guns, four of them Russian-made.
Over 100 Republican candidates gathered in Washington recently to discuss and be instructed on strategy for beating Democrats this fall. Ignore President Nixon—except perhaps for foreign policy—was one piece of advice. One candidate observed that George Bush, chairman of the Republican National Committee, had made impeachment legitimate when he said that the important thing was that “the system work fairly and expeditiously the Republican Party will accept the result.” Turn the inflation issue against the Democrats, others advised, and stress the horrors of a veto-proof Congress—a political catastrophe, said Vice President Ford, that would be “the demise of individual freedom.” Republican strategy—1974: don’t beat us too badly or you will soon regret it.
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