Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captured. The others managed to escape into the countryside, either going into hiding or fleeing toward the Dominican border. On the one plane that did not get away, the B-25 that had bombed Port-au-Prince, the government claimed that it had found anti-Duvalier leaflets ("Down with crime! Down with misery! Down with Duvalier!"), implicating New York's Haitian Coalition, a group of exiles bent on Duvalier's overthrow. To try to fix the blame, Duvalier had the eight prisoners flown to the capital and grilled them personally for eight hours. Then, wearing camouflage uniforms with...
...time the Administration's anti-crime bill passed the Senate last week, it had grown and changed mightily. For one thing, the Senators had added a measure that would permit court-ordered wiretapping by federal and state authorities investigating almost any serious crime; federal authorities would not need a court order in emergency situations involving national security or organized crime. The legislators also authorized a ban on the mail-order sale of handguns, as well as $100 million in federal funds for local law enforcement. And, as many civil libertarians feared, the Senators voted to repeal some Supreme Court...
Comment on recent court rulings added considerable heat to the debate. Arkansas' John McClellan, his voice hoarse and quaking, asked: "Do you favor a continuation of rulings that push the spiral of crime upward and upward? We had better quit trying to find alibis and excuses as to why the law cannot be enforced and get down to enforcing it." In one remarkable bit of rhetoric, Louisiana's Russell Long explained why American Bar Association lawyers opposed the attempt to curb the court. "They have a vested interest in crime," said Long. "Why should they give...
...Chicago American never leaves his desk, built a spectacular career on telephone impersonation. Known to admiring colleagues as "the Heifetz of the telephone," Romanoff achieved his greatest performance in covering the 1966 mass murder of eight Chicago student nurses, when he 1) extracted the gory details of the crime from a policeman by pretending to be the Cook County coroner, 2) landed an exclusive story on Suspect Richard Speck by convincing Speck's mother that he was her son's attorney...
...plainclothesmen is undoubtedly justified in many situations, especially in combatting organized crime. But this should not hide the fact that disguising the police always has a social cost...