Word: commit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altogether. Such was the cold welcome given to onetime Black Militant Eldridge Cleaver, 40, who stepped off a plane from Paris at New York's Kennedy Airport after seven years of self-exile in Cuba, Algeria and France. Facing charges of parole violation and assault with intent to commit murder, stemming from a 1968 Shootout with police in Oakland, Calif., Cleaver was immediately arrested by FBI agents and flown to San Diego. "It's a new situation now. Black people have undergone a fundamental change for the better," said the author (Soul on Ice) and former Panther Information...
...authorizes warrantless domestic security wiretaps on short notices. It also permits conviction of defendants for committing crimes that they were induced to commit by police pressures or entrapment...
Whether the Rosenbergs were technically guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage as the government charged, or whether Alger Hiss actually turned over confidential State Department documents to Whitaker Chambers during the late 1930's, may seem to be somewhat particularistic and historically insignificant questions. But if these specific cases can shed light on the entire McCarthy period, if the Freedom of Information Act can help explain the FBI's method of investigation in two cases which contributed so much to the creation of a national anti-communist hysteria, then clearly Weinstein's research and that of Hiss and the Meeropols...
Still, Casciola won't commit himself to saying anything inflammatory about an upset. "We haven't played a good game at both ends of the field for a few weeks now, but we've had some close games the whole time," he said yesterday...
...National Health Service's hospitals, which in many areas are the only hospitals. The pledge was popular with labor unions, which felt that the so-called pay beds diverted scarce medical resources from patients who depended on NHS; they also attacked the notion that people with money could commit the very un-British offense of "jumping the queue." But Labor's promise was viewed as a betrayal by physicians, who felt the government was placing political considerations before human needs...