Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing population into account, was up 15.3%. For murder, the increase has been 8.9%; for burglary, 14.6%. But one sympton of how haphazardly the U.S. has dealt with lawlessness is that, despite these seemingly precise figures, there is no certain knowledge of just how badly off the country is. Statistics have been kept only since 1930, and their basis-reports of known offenses submitted to the FBI by local authorities-is seriously flawed. In some categories, accurate comparisons between eras and areas are impossible because methods of collecting data have changed and local police departments vary in efficiency and candor...
Negroes do, in fact, account for more violent crimes in the cities than do whites; the poor usually do. Although Negroes make up 11% of the U.S. population, black arrests for murder last yea"r numbered 4,883, compared with 3,200 for whites. The overwhelming majority of victims of violent crime are set upon by members of their own race. That is why Negroes suffer far more from lawlessness of almost every sort than do whites. It explains why 2,000 residents of Watts recently petitioned their council representatives for better police protection. James Jones, Negro owner...
David Kraslow and Stuart Loorv, two Los Angeles Times correspondents, compiled this account of the Johnson Administration's diplomatic efforts to arrange peace in Vietnam after an elaborate research effort which took them literally all over the world. The record they relate is dismal at best, but their conclusion, like their treatment of their data, is low-key and pleasantly devoid of the rhetoric which so often invades studies of the Vietnam problem...
...many case studies in The Secret Search, the author's treatment of the Marigold initiative is most instructive and most exciting. The account of this abortive attempt at arranging talks occupies a full third of the book, and Benjamin Read, chief assistant to Dean Rusk and one of the few people in government who has access to the full story, has assured one faculty member here that the account of this incident from late in 1966 is "90 per cent" accurate...
...asked the people around here, they'd tell you that they don't want us to leave," Deloros said. "We're not opposed to the new housing and all but we think they ought to take the wishes of the people in the neighborhood into account." Several heads of middle-aged men sitting at the bar nodded in agreement...