Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cecil A. Roberts, deputy crime chief, said that some of the remaining American survivors in Guyana could be released late this weekend. Eight elderly survivors have already been allowed to return to the United States because of their...
...where is there greater evil than in Metropolis, the image of Manhattan right down to the grit on the sidewalks? Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) lands a job on the Daily Planet, where he can keep a watch on crime and corruption, and then, with cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial...
...president of the Detroit city council in the early 1970s by taking on the federal bureaucracy?and winning. He did so by deciding to tear down thousands of abandoned houses that had been taken over by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and had become breeding grounds for crime. When HUD's lethargic officials threatened to prosecute Levin and Mayor Coleman Young, the two city officials ordered the housing razed anyway?and HUD did nothing. Challenging Republican Senator Robert Griffin this year, Democrat Levin again campaigned against overgrown government. Yet he never recanted his basically liberal philosophy, bridging...
...Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, a former assistant district attorney running for Congress from the New York borough of Queens, beat Republican Alfred DelliBovi by ten percentage points. She campaigned on the issues of crime, neighborhood deterioration and help for the elderly...
...principle, there is nothing wrong with it. Practically speaking, it is impossible to implement. What could be done about crime? A man could commit a theft in East Jerusalem and get off scot free by running away to West Jerusalem, and vice versa. I'm afraid that divided sovereignty would soon mean the same walls, mines and barbed wire...