Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down despite Menten's capture following a Swiss newsman's tip. Before fleeing, the art-loving SS man did some homework, if not quite enough. He calculated correctly that the Swiss statute of limitations on his offenses had expired. But the Swiss can expel those who commit "crimes against humanity." Doing so, however, requires a decision by the full Swiss cabinet, which will meet soon...
...quick CCNY quintet came out pressing in the second half, forcing Harvard to commit a slew of turnovers. Both squads spent most of the half scrambling for loose balls as center court looked like a grabfest between gregarious octopi...
Roger Rosenblatt's short piece "Growing Up On Television" suffers from different problems. Rosenblatt, literary editor of the New Republic, does not commit Coles's stylistic abuses. But he provides so little analysis and arrives so infrequently at conclusions about television's actual role in adult life that the piece seems ill-fitted for an analytical journal. Instead of coming to terms with the crucial role television has played, Rosenblatt adopts the posture of those television critics who prefer to deal with the subject from on high. Thus, instead of a focused critique of the cult of money...
...States, with the full knowledge and sometimes the assistance of the CIA.................Answerable only to the Shah of Iran, SAVAK has become one of the most feared secret police agencies in the world. It uses terror and torture to achieve its ends....(There is) documentary evidence that SAVAK agents...commit burglaries, forgeries and other crimes in behalf of the Shah. Dr. Richard Cottam, a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh, (said) that a trusted State Department source had warned him that Iranian hit squads were on their way to the United States..........................."I was told by someone...
...murder night, began calling friends at 9:50 after finding his mother's body, and was waiting outside his house when police arrived at 10:02. No trace of blood was found on Reilly, and this time table would scarcely have allowed him to commit the savage crime-his mother had been extensively mutilated...