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Besides buying such standard gear as pistols and window grates, residents are purchasing attack dogs, alarms that scream out "Burglar! burglar!" and even armor-plated cars usually made for export to the war zones of Central America. George Wackenhut, who heads a giant Coral Gables-based security firm that bears his name, has watched his business in South Florida grow by 22% this year. "When I was growing up, a murder story used to be good for ten days in the papers," says Wackenhut, a onetime FBI agent. "Here a morning kill may not even make the afternoon news...
President Bok called the quick fund raising testimony to a "virtuous man" and said Harvard had done something shape Halberstam, who was killed when he surprised a burglar late last fall...
...scholarship, which will pay for four years of education for one needy student in every class, is in memory of Michael J. Halberstam '53, who was killed in his house last December by a burglar...
...offenders in Washington, D.C., showed that 7% of the criminals arrested in a 4½-year period had been apprehended four times-and this 7% accounted for 24% of all the serious crimes considered solved in those years. In one startling example, in suburban Evanston, Ill., the arrest of one burglar cleared up 163 break-ins. Says Evanston Police Chief William McHugh: "Eighteen hundred burglaries doesn't mean we had 1,800 burglars." The fact that the repeaters are released to strike again and again says a lot about the nation's system of criminal justice (see following story...
Returning from evening church services with his wife, Mary, 65, he surprised a burglar in their home. Both Hiborns were stabbed three times. No arrest...