Word: crime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newest evening newscast contains no crime footage, no clips of Bush and Dukakis trading jabs on the campaign trail, no fluffy features on roller- skating or baseball-card collectors. A typical show last week opened instead with a nearly 6-min. report on the upcoming election in Chile. That was followed by an examination of political unrest in Burma, which began in the leisurely tones of a travelogue: "Burma, a gentle land, devoutly Buddhist, dotted with the spires of golden pagodas, a place where time seems to be standing still...
...those who kill during a drug-related crime, the legislation contains legal procedures designed to permit use of the federal death penalty...
...took a lot of provisions of dubious constitutionality," said Rep. William J. Hughes (D-N.J.) and chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on crime. Hughes said he hoped lawmakers could "clean up" some of the language in a House-Senate conference...
Third, we need to streamline and speed the legal system. Unless we can break the logjam in our courts and prisons, any increase in crime (due to the social stress we will surely experience) may undermine the rule of law entirely. If we must sacrifice certain safeguards and privileges, it will be to retain our basic liberties...
Reynolds ran out of the bar, but Cambridge police arrested him at the corner of JFK and Eliot streets. He was charged with disorderly conduct and assault and battery with a bottle, according to Cambridge Police crime analyst Richard Sevieri...