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ONLY nine months ago, the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence was able to report that the U.S. "has experienced almost none of the chronic revolutionary conspiracy and terrorism that plagues dozens of other nations." To be sure, plots and skirmishes have footnoted American history, and bomb blasts sometimes provided the punctuation. But they were usually isolated cases tied to a specific labor dispute, racial confrontation or criminal feud. For many decades, the specter of the political bomber has been as alien and anachronistic as the caricature of the bearded anarchist heaving a bomb the size...
five millionaire families who kept their workers sentenced to life terms of illiteracy, malnutrition, chronic illness, racisin, and powerlessness. Now the large majority of the jails are museums or have been converted for use as school buildings...
...varsity will only lose three men by graduation, and two of these slots will probably be filled by transfers who have been sitting out this year. Next year's varsity will have tremendous depth at the middle and upper weights, but still will face the chronic lower weight problem and the lack of a heavyweight...
...effort to conserve potatoes and grain, they continued a World War I liquor prohibition into the mid-1920s; during one six-month period, the Soviet militia uncovered no fewer than 75,296 illegal stills. Since then, sales of vodka, profits to the state and the number of chronic alcoholics have all grown right along with the population. The Kremlin does not publish official statistics, but one count of Soviet souses in 1965 put the number of heavy drinkers at 10 million. Today, says the government, drunks are responsible for a major portion of violent crime, including 60% of all murders...
...legalize "preventive" pretrial detention, imposing it after the safeguard of a full hearing. Other reformers place greater emphasis on speeding trials to shorten the time in which an arrested suspect's rights might be abused or he might commit additional crimes. In view of the nation's chronic court congestion, however, the reformers also urge judges to take more immediate steps, freeing most defendants on reasonable bail and using ways other than jail to assure that they reappear for trial and behave lawfully. Obvious techniques include ordering close surveillance or frequent check-ins with court officers...