Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller (who was not). Nixon aimed a P-Shooter at Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey: "three peas in a pod, prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed at both organized crime and what he called "street crime," including legalized wiretapping, legislation to offset Supreme Court decisions that have limited the use of confessions, establishment of a congressional committee on crime, and the upgrading of police, judicial and penal systems...
Nixon was careful to divorce the crime problem from rioting and racial tension. He had dealt with that in an earlier position paper stressing the need for black economic progress (TIME, May 3). Last week his statement on racial accommodation drew praise from an unexpected source-the militant Congress of Racial Equality, which put forward its own plan for Negro selfhelp. Roy Innis, CORE associate national director, said Nixon's speech "opened the eyes of a lot of people" and made him a "contender for the black vote." Until now Nixon has not been particularly popular among Negro leaders...
...year-old schoolteacher was among eight buried alive in a single grave at Duong Xuan Thuong. His crime: he had a son in the South Vietnamese army...
...very carefully, and in my experience with interviewing what I call homicidal minds [Capote has talked at length with 100 murderers in the past nine years], he's simply a man not capable of this particular kind of very calculated and cruel, and exact and precise kind of crime...
...Capote's reconstruction of the crime, in fact, Ray's only function was to throw the FBI off the assassin's trail, first by assuming the name of Eric Starvo Gait ("My theory is that there are two Eric Starvo Gaits"), and finally by planting his fingerprints on the gun that was later to be used for killing King...