Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gangster movie on late-night television, but the script is from life. It is a chillingly real conversation that took place among three Mafia hoodlums in their hangout. The subject of the session: methods of dispatching associates to a better world. This and other candid peeps at organized crime became available last week when a 2,000-page transcript of FBI tape recordings was filed in Federal District Court in Newark, N.J. The tapes were presented by the district attorney in connection with extortion-conspiracy charges against Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De-Cavalcante, a New Jersey Mafia leader...
...York's Mayor John Lindsay is beset by Republican conservatives in tent on denying him G.O.P. renomination this week, and by middle-class voters discontented over late garbage trucks, rising rents and the high crime rate. He has somehow managed to endure a campaign of catcalls and criticism. It was obviously the last straw when a radio chatter host named Barry Gray, awaiting Lindsay's overdue appearance on his nighttime show, began berating him in absentia for city ills ranging from street violence to pavement potholes...
What have they said about our millions? Eighteen white men assisting in the crime of genocide. What do they say about our murdered innocents? How many black dead make one missing white? Mathematicians, please answer me. Is it infinity...
...threw out that conviction last week,* the U.S. Supreme Court indicated that the military's jurisdiction over such civilian crimes would henceforth be severely limited. In peacetime, ruled a 5-to-3 majority, unless the alleged crime is "service-connected," an accused serviceman in the U.S. may not be deprived of his constitutional rights to a grand jury proceeding and a trial by a jury of his peers. In O'Callahan's case, Justice William Douglas wrote for the majority, "there was no connection-not even the remotest one -between his military duties and the crimes...
...dissenting opinion, Justices Potter Stewart, Byron White and John Marshall Harlan complained that the decision furnishes few guidelines for selecting the type of crime that would be considered "service-connected." The ruling, they argued, puts the law into a "demoralizing state of uncertainty." The three Justices contended that the military has the right to purge criminals whose attitudes might corrupt others in the ranks. "The soldier who acts the part of Mr. Hyde while on leave," they said, "is at best a precarious Dr. Jekyll when back on duty...