Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Island last week. "We're talking about anarchy. One reason we're gonna be elected President is because we're the only one that's talked out against this sort of thing." Ronald Reagan gets his loudest applause when he refers to the issue of crime in the streets. "We talk of sending a man to the moon," he observed in Alabama, "but we can't even send a man safely across the park...
Utmost Concern. Richard Nixon last week enlisted a 20-man task force to explore the problems of law enforcement. The National Governors' Conference, meeting in Cincinnati, adopted a resolution "recognizing crime in the streets of America as a problem which demands the utmost concern and attention of all Americans." For all their concern and attention, however, the Governors refused to endorse gun-control legislation, which is favored by police chiefs around the country. "Gun control isn't going to solve the problem," said Georgia's Lester Maddox. "Punishment and apprehension is the answer...
Longer-term results are more difficult to gauge. After release, program members commit far fewer offenses than others. But Cook admits that "sometimes we can only cut down the type or frequency of crime." In any case, he has high hopes for the current group, will recommend that half be taken out of the program immediately and given full freedom...
...resolution," he said, "the fact remains that we are at war." It is enough to know that hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen are in combat in Viet Nam. Just how many G.I.s make a war he did not say. Presumably, the number in 1964, when Anderson committed his crime, was more than enough...
...field--Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Party leaders on both sides, as reports from the governors' conference in Cincinnati suggest, view this prospect with something less than riotous enthusiasm. They seem to think that the screaming, grabbing, tugging, and titers may be more than discontent over rising crime rates and Vietnam...