Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faithful followers if they wanted to work with the clandestine Revolutionary Committee, a Los Angeles-based feminist faction of the Weather Underground that was looking for new members, especially people who knew about firearms. Ralph's purported experience in the military and Dick's in armed crime made them perfect candidates...
...Crime. From 1960 to 1975, the rate of violent crime in the U.S. tripled, from 160.9 to 481.5 incidents per 100,000 people; by 1976 the rate had declined to 459.6. Among industrialized countries, the U.S. had by far the highest homicide rate: 9.8 per 100,000 people in 1973. (In 1976, though the book does not go that far, the rate dropped...
...rest of Italy's notorious problems, however, have not only endured but even multiplied. Crime and political terrorism have continued to rise, with 76 kidnapings in 1977. Four shootings, presumably the work of political extremists, took place in Rome last week alone. A right-wing politician, suspected of participating in a fatal attack on a Communist Youth Federation member in 1976, was killed; two young leftists and the wife of a journalist working on the far-right newspaper II Secolo D'ltalia were wounded...
Miami's high crime rate has increased the office staff to 315, including 105 lawyers...
White backlash, neoconservatism, a national move to the right. It's all the same pnenomenon, and it boils down to fear and disillusionment in white urban America. Liberal reformers, and the society that has gone along with the ideas and plans of the liberals, see crime and poverty and continued racial tension despite all their efforts in the '50s and '60s to create the Good Society. The renewed interest in ethnicity to distract from the issue of race and class, the stiffening resistance to affirmative action (or reverse discrimination, depending on your viewpoint), the call for more law and order...