Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...person cannot have a genuine respect for laws unless he respects the law and himself. Changing the laws will not help. Our attitudes need to be changed. I will not argue whether or not income tax evasion is comparable to violent crime. But the attitude that a little transgression is all right definitely is not healthy and clearly points to this nation's need for moral leadership...
...Hoppes are not happy. The world they were born to, a white world of upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...field of crime control, Congress authorized $400 million in grants through 1970 to help states upgrade local law enforcement, plus $150 million through 1971 to combat juvenile delinquency...
Bonanno is better known as "Joe Bananas," the gangster overlord of a New York Cosa Nostra "family." A Sicilian-born Mafioso who entered the U.S. illegally in 1924, Bonanno rose to a seat on the twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head...
...West German government's commendable attempt to pay reparations to the victims of Nazi cruelty is the most remarkable effort in history to treat sin as crime and then atone for it in cash. In absolute terms, the whole idea is preposterous: How can one recompense a man for his own death? And though payments, of course, are made to next of kin, the Wiedergutmachung (literally "making good again") is a legal anomaly that intentionally permits all sorts of quasi-legal advantages to the claimants. It is a "beautiful piece of liberal and humane legislation," as one of Lionel...