Word: commits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes a thick-skinned and disciplined swimmer to thrive in Randy's program, a swimmer who can live without ever hearing a word of congratulation from the notoriously hard-to-please coach. But for the upward-bound athletes who are willing to commit their bodies and souls to Randy--like Tracy Caulkins, who will be joining her sister at Florida this fall--the results can be very heartening...
...Outreach counseling centers have been particularly helpful in giving guidance to veterans still overcome by combat memories and alienation. The center in Atlanta has counseled 1,500 veterans in 14 months. One veteran stopped by to talk on his way to commit an armed robbery. He was dissuaded. Another, Daniel Parker, 30, tries to exorcise his nightmares. Sometimes when he sees his three children sleeping, he flashes back to the day his patrol swept a village. Trained to shoot at anything that moved, he fired at a basket. When he turned it over, he found three dead babies. After being...
...have more of the CIA's dirty tricks? They toppled popular governments and substituted oppressive dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...
There are few reliable statistics on Hispanics involved in crimes, since states and localities tend to classify them differently. Generally, they commit proportionately more crimes than do whites and fewer than do blacks, and they are victimized in this midrange too. In California, where 16% of the population are Hispanic, they constitute 19% of the prison inmates. Like other ethnic groups, they tend to join neighborhood gangs. In Hartford, Conn., so many newly arrived young teen-agers from Puerto Rico have become victims of gang warfare that some parents have sent them back to the island for their own safety...
Statistics also show that young people commit most of the violent crime in America. Fully 57% of all arrests for such offenses in 1979 were of criminals under the age of 25; one-fifth were under 18. Although the female prison population doubled through the 1970s, women account for relatively few violent crimes: about 11% of all such arrests...