Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field of crime control, Congress authorized $400 million in grants through 1970 to help states upgrade local law enforcement, plus $150 million through 1971 to combat juvenile delinquency...
...control measures, the first in 30 years, banned mail-order sales of firearms and ammunition. While better than nothing, they ignored the question of registration and licensing...
...occupants. Tucson's police force has so far made no arrests for the bombings. New York lawmen believe, however, that the fuses for the bombs were set four years ago when Joe Bananas was apparently ordered to retire by his underworld peers. Instead, he has attempted to retain control of his narcotics, numbers and loan-sharking rackets by transforming his Brooklyn-based fief into a hereditary barony and installing his son Salvatore ("Bill") Bonanno, 35. In retaliation, the four other Cosa Nostra families in the New York area, according to the theory, have been letting Joe Bananas know...
...power in Panama must face the extremely sensitive task of negotiating a new treaty with the U.S. about the status of the 54-year-old canal and the possibility of building a new one. The political rallying cry in Panama is for the U.S. to give up sovereignty and control of the 557-sq.-mi. Canal Zone. The Zone has been under U.S. administration since the Americans opened the canal in 1914, and nationalist sentiment runs high in Panama to alter that Yankee domination...
...bizarre, rebellion-plagued history of the Congo since independence, Pierre Mulele authored one of the bloodier chapters. Almost five years ago, he launched a revolt against the "profiteers of independence"-the central government-and within months led his ill-equipped but relatively well-disciplined bands to control much of rich Kwilu province in the interior...