Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department resembled a police missing persons' bureau last week, as U.S. diplomats from Santiago de Cuba to Berlin to Moscow grappled with a new outcrop of organized diplomatic crime. The problem: organized kidnaping of U.S. citizens overseas-47 in Cuba, nine in Russia, nine in East Germany-to be held until the U.S. pays ransom in the form of diplomatic concession...
...crime laboratory that is second largest in the world (after the FBI's); a 3,700,000-card fingerprint file that also ranks second...
...city's social agencies should be called in to help the family. Kennedy decided that the J.A.B. was dipping too deeply into social work that was not police duty. He put 100 of the J.A.B. men on the streets as a "Task Force" with the more immediate crime-preventive role of keeping an eye on troublesome gangs...
...decisions have aroused protest, particularly from New York City's Youth Board, the municipal agency that allots some $4,500,000 a year of city and state funds for juvenile recreation and rehabilitation projects, also maintains a staff of 100 conscientious street workers who work in crime-ridden neighborhoods to counsel gangs and to reduce their violent activities. The Youth Board believes in allowing gangs to remain intact because they provide a juvenile sense of security and comradeship. The board distinguishes between "bopping" (attacking) gangs and defensive gangs that fight back only when attacked. Youth Board workers "mediate cools...
Premeditated Crime is a chilling exercise in pure atmosphere wedded to a sadly penetrating knowledge of the heart. Arriving at a gloomy country home to settle a property matter, an examining magistrate finds the owner dead. A heart attack, obviously. But was it? Why are mother, son and daughter so rudely anxious to have the judge leave? Why are they so secretive, so oddly lacking in true grief? Combining the technique of the detective story with Dostoevskian insights, Author Witold Gombrowicz unravels a skein of conflicting family emotions and so clears the way to a final tragedy that...