Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most areas. Twice as many (45% to 22%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on education; three times as many (51% to 17%) favored more rather than less spending on health care; more than six times as many (59% to 9%) favored increased rather than decreased spending on fighting crime. A slim margin favored increased spending on defense and transportation. The only areas where a large majority of voters advocated cuts were in welfare and foreign aid. Just over 50% said that welfare spending was too high, whereas only 25% said it was too low. Although the U.S. now spends...
...recruited serviceman cannot be court-martialed. Thus the Marines had to drop a case against an enlisted man who was charged with stealing TNT from his unit at the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe, Hawaii, because his recruiter had forged his high school diploma and concealed his juvenile crime record to qualify him for service...
...crews are at work fixing broken water lines and restoring electricity. People who intend to stay on are stocking their shelters with Israeli canned goods. The Christians' ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. Throughout the civil war, their sections of Beirut were free from garbage and crime, in marked contrast to the areas under Palestinian control. Once more the Maronites are demonstrating their competence and courage. When a group of Christians trying to escape from East Beirut came under Syrian machine-gun fire, their leader shouted, 'Let's keep going! It's better...
...crime and trial created an enormous stir, which Director Claude Chabrol has depicted - there are angry crowds and balladeers singing laments in the street outside the courthouse - but his main interest is in the spoiled innocence of Violette. She is played with astonishing virtuosity by an extraordinary young French actress named Isabella Huppert. Violette's twisted mind seems to have been truly monstrous. The incest story was pure invention. She got her parents to swallow poison by telling them it was medicine. Yet something in her character was capable of generating sympathy. What we see in Actress Huppert...
...period trappings - but Huppert gives astringency to the scenes. The camera lingers on her plump, spoiled, intelligent face, and it is possible to see the wall that she has built between herself and the world. Behind the wall is Violette; what she may be is only partly guessable. Her crime is solved, but the mystery remains...