Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the encroaching influence of Western ways, the Passamaquoddy quietly assert their argument. There is no violent crime on the reservation. The children skateboard, play with their dogs, their many, many dogs. "We don't believe in not letting them live or have little pups," says one Passamaquoddy, unwittingly demonstrating his bond to Catholicism. Passamaquoddy children do not throw rocks at birds and dogs, as some young children do in Western society. They hug their animals and enjoy visitors from the outside. They are ambitious within their community. Despite poverty, they enjoy what they are doing on the reservation...
Whether for profit or for revenge, arson has become one of the most deadly, costly, and, for law enforcement officials, maddening crimes in the country. Deliberatley started fires now exceed 100,000 a year, up 400% since 1967. Last year there were 6,776 reported arsons in New York City alone. In Chicago, arson has tripled in less than three years, and in crime-plagued Detroit it is up 12% over last year alone. But the most shocking statistics come from San Francisco, which has experienced a 700% increase in arson in five years. Says Lieut. James Mahoney, chief investigator...
...federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, insurance companies and city officials plan to create arson information banks to help apprehend torches. Unfortunately, catching arsonists requires enterprising detective work-and luck. The U.S. Attorney for western Pennsylvania, Blair Griffith, for example, has won 20 arson convictions based on the federal crime of mail fraud. Griffith relied on an arsonist turned informant: Merrill H. Klein, 53, a self-styled "business consultant" who worked as a "broker" for landlords eager to torch their property. After pleading guilty in 1974 to helping burn down a hotel in Bedford, Pa., Klein agreed to testify...
Many experts draw a careful line between the ordinary criminal and the terrorist. Explains Rand's Jenkins: "Terrorism is violence aimed at [those] people watching. Fear is the intended effect, not the byproduct. That distinguishes terrorist tactics from muggings and other forms of violent crime...
...ever there was a play that has no business being a movie, Equus is it. This drama about a stableboy's crime of passion owed much of its three-year Broadway run to theatrical devices that cannot be reproduced on film. Strip the stagecraft away, and all that remains of Equus is 2% hours of talky debate about shopworn ideas. The poor play stumbles and falls before it can break from the gate...