Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control legislation has not been effective in reducing violent crime, and it infringes on the constitutional right to bear arms, a leader in the movement to ease restrictions on gun posession told an audience of 30 last night at the Kennedy School...
...others at the Institute of Politics panel discussion urged states to adopt stricter gun control laws as a way of cutting the crime rate...
...control has nothing to do with violent crime," Gardiner said. "The law is not working at all. It's a total disaster, in fact...
...face, the idea was ludicrous. Why would anyone send the Attorney General of the U.S. a memo suggesting, in effect, that a crime should be committed? Yet reports surfaced last week that such a note had been sent to Edwin Meese in 1985, shortly after he became the nation's top law enforcement officer. The suggestion allegedly came from E. Robert Wallach, a Meese friend and his former personal attorney. The purported proposal: that a bribe be paid to an Israeli official, perhaps Prime Minister Shimon Peres or his Labor Party, to ensure that Israel would not sabotage a proposed...
Uzbekistan, one of the Soviet Union's 15 republics, is rich in cotton, fruit -- and corruption. According to Pravda and other publications, the republic's leading government and Communist Party officials shared in the embezzlement of $6.5 billion during the 1970s and early 1980s. They also permitted Mafia-style crime families to thrive on such supposedly capitalist rackets as drugs, prostitution, gambling and murder for hire. A number of officials helped themselves to the republic's cotton-growing revenues by overstating the size of the republic's cotton crops, then skimming off part of the proceeds. Among those recently arrested...