Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Rich's review of Frederick Wiseman's PBS film Canal Zone [Oct. 10] does a great injustice to Canal Zone residents. Specifically, I refer to such statements as "Zonians, for all their manic patriotic ardor, are a rootless and unhappy lot; their crime rate and child-abuse rates are well above the mainland rates...
...bureau's investigation shed light on a number of the murkier aspects of the crime. After exploring the mountains of transcripts, memoranda and telex messages, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey sent this summary of the 40,001 pages of FBI documents...
...Chicago, Barney Baker, to "straighten out" a troublesome union dispute at Ruby's Dallas night club. (The commision might have been more interested, of course, had the FBI disclosed that the CIA had recruited Chicago gangsters to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.) There is no evidence that organized crime had anything to do with the Kennedy murder, but the commission's failure to investigate the possibility left a fertile field in which conspiracy theories have flourished...
...materials were imported, an influx of 750,000 refugees from the former African territories and a 30% inflation rate. Of late even the Premier's personal popularity had begun to slip because of the rising cost of food, inflation that has continued to climb to 33%, unemployment, increased crime and other problems...
...state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half of its 60-odd pages to sports and most of the rest to staff-written tales of local crime and kindness (FIREBOMB HORROR; BOXER STILL LOVED DESPITE CHARGES). The Journal has no editorial page. "I like news," says Péladeau, "and my papers don't take political stands...