Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of the needle giveaway point out that it places city government legally at odds with itself. Says Sterling Johnson, New York City's special prosecutor for narcotics: "To give an addict a needle to shoot drugs is facilitating a crime." New York Archbishop John Cardinal O'Connor, a member of the presidential AIDS commission, blasts the proposal as an "act born in desperation that drags down the standards of all society." Moreover, he strongly questions "whether it will accomplish its purpose," inasmuch as the free needles will probably be shared...
...first four centuries. The last two hundred pages, devoted to "the strategies and economics of today and tomorrow," predict the eventual rise of Japan to great power status and the United States' abdication of its dominant position. It is here that Kennedy commits a historian's most dreadful crime: trying to predict the future from the past. In fact, it leads one to wonder whether Kennedy has not interpreted the past in light of his understanding of the present. Current worries about the critical gap between American commitments overseas and her declining resources may have led Kennedy to overlook important...
Gardiner said statistics indicate that the rate of violent crime actually increased when laws making it more difficult to obtain handguns were enacted in the past...
...advocates of gun control said that tougher legislation would greatly decrease the rate of violent crime...
Brady said she supported a plan to delay delivery of guns by seven days to allow authorities to check the purchaser's background and to discourage impulsive crime...