Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this question always being addressed to the victim of aggression? The 4 million Palestinians have the highest rate of education in the Middle East, and yet they are not recognized by many countries. This is immoral; it is an international crime. What have we done to have suffered 30 years without a home, a passport, a nation, living as refugees, without rights...
...surge of the underground economy reflects a troubling shift in American attitudes. So many people are fed up with inflation and high taxes that they no longer feel morally obligated to obey tax laws. Reports TIME Correspondent John Tompkins, who has covered organized crime for many years: "The underworld and the upperworld have converged in their morality over the past several decades. The underworld has not moved over to us, but we have moved in its direction." The victims, of course, are the honest taxpayers, who will have to fork over more and more to carry the load...
...Last month in New York, the conviction of Eric Michael, 24, for robbery, burglary, rape and sodomy was overturned because he had been tried twice for the same crime. The first trial had been terminated by Criminal Judge Arnold G. Fraiman...
From Missouri came a request that the sheriff in Austin, Minn., arrest Ramona Van Oster and hold her for extradition on a charge of passing a bad check. She was promptly jailed. Her alleged crime: writing a $3.39 check on a closed bank account, which is a felony in Missouri. She made the check good and the charges were dropped. The sheriff then angrily announced that he would send Missouri a bill for $460, which was the cost of keeping her in jail five days and paying for her court-appointed lawyer. Said he: "This is one of the reasons...
...sleuth, have become two of the most beloved figures in detective fiction. An engaging mix of upper-class sang-froid and Sherlockian intellect, Wimsey set new standards in highbrow snooping. As viewers of the PBS series can testify, only Wimsey would drive a Daimler to the scene of the crime, sport a monocle, and dine out with marquesses and murderers...