Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power ended in 1949 when Americans learned to their dismay that the Soviets had cracked the secret. They suspected that spies were to blame. In April of 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the defendants. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb... has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea ... and who knows but that millions more of innocent' people may pay the price of your treason...
...says. "Same with the tax revolt business, the middle class is saying we want more for us, screw the poor. That same attitude is why you won't have reform in the Teamsters." Brill points out that the course was set long ago, when Jimmy Hoffa cooperated with organized crime to achieve power in the union, when he acquiesced and participated in the corruption, extortion, and violence that cemented his power. If Walter Reuther, organizing the United Auto Workers at the same time and in the same city as Hoffa, didn't need the Mafia and their kind of tactics...
Dukakis was defeated in last September's Democratic primary by Edward J. King, who went on to become governor. King defeated the one-term Dukakis in a closely contested race that centered on the issues of taxation and crime...
...complaint, but the return address was a surprise: 245 Whalley Avenue, the site of the county jail. Signed by the residents of Cell-block C, the letter was written by an inmate serving time on a drug conviction, who said his wife was afraid to visit him because of crime in the prison area. "If you are not safe entering and leaving a correctional center," lamented the cons, "where are you safe?" City officials agreed: they increased lighting in the area and beefed up police patrols...
...rate of capture is not rising along with the rate of crime. In San Francisco, for example, the rate of arrest and conviction is only 50%. Part of the reason it is not higher is that the FBI, which once gloried in stopping John Dillinger and Willie Sutton, is now turning its attention toward the bigger-money white-collar crimes, such as embezzlement and bribery. "We have not been able to maintain our bank-robbery enforcement at previous levels," admits an FBI spokesman...