Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diggings into other state agencies had won him a nomination for a Pulitzer Prize. But by late 1975, Bolles began to cut back on his investigative work. He was tired of seeing the protagonists of his feature stories, members of Arizona's new network of organized crime, go unpunished. Investigative reporting had cost him one marriage; he was happy with his second wife and his seven children. At 47, he wanted to settle back in the southwestern sun and enjoy life...
Life on quiet, residential Foch Street in North Cambridge, the scene of a multiple shooting three weeks ago, is back to normal this morning as a 50 year old Brookline man is to be charged with the crime before the Cambridge District Court...
...Lately, however, lessening racism and rapid economic growth have begun to reverse the trend. Many Northern blacks are apprehensive about the South, and some of those who left retain traumatic memories. But countless blacks are moving to the South, fleeing the Northern cities' high crime rates, high prices and deteriorating schools. For the most part, the people moving South are middleclass, educated blacks, who are better equipped than poorer blacks to take advantage of the region's new opportunities. Some of the new migrants gave their views to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce...
...phase plan, for '71 and '72, aimed at achieving 30% black enrollment in all but a few of the county's schools, but also called for the closing of nine of the previously black schools, either because their facilities were inadequate or because they were in crime-ridden neighborhoods. Blacks were particularly rankled by the shutting down of two relatively new schools, while the oldest white school in the system, built in 1898, remained open...
Shiny Motorcycle. Since then Turner has extracted $250,000 in aid from the feds and the state. In the anteroom of his office in Prattville now stands a Burroughs 500 computer terminal that is plugged into Alabama and FBI crime information centers. Near by is a $30,000 radio console. Parked outside are eight patrol cars, a two-tone green 1976 van and a shiny motorcycle. Last week Turner was cruising about in a helicopter on loan from a federal civil defense program. The sheriff has also spent half of his grant money to train his staff, which has grown...