Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most inmates of the state penitentiary in Parchman, Miss., are run-of-the- mill, old-style cons. But a few may have switched to high-tech crime, diverting prison products for profit. When a trailerload of cotton rolled out of the pen, its weight seemed in good order on the institution's computer records. Yet two weeks ago it was discovered that when the cotton arrived at a nearby gin, it was light by more than 90,000 lbs. The missing cotton, worth $20,000, seems to have been shipped elsewhere...
...about the threat of rape. Probably more Harvard men will rape someone than anyone of us would like to guess. I, for one, would like to guess that none would. But I also know this is not the case and that, in fact, some have probably already committed this crime. Let us assume, though, that "the guys we know" would never do such a thing. Somehow, this is not very comforting. Because rape is only the tip of the sexist iceberg. We all know about the paucity of women professors; that male students dominate section discussions; that many women have...
...only charge any of the hundreds of organizations and thousands of people watched by the bureau are guilty of is their disagreement with U.S. policy in Central America. Though some people would like to think so, this is no crime, just as protesting the Viet Nam war was no crime...
...race relations in America. Perhaps not everyone agrees with this attitude. I did not; I've always had a more cynical approach to the future of American race relations. But this is a difference in attitude, not an offense. It is an issue to be discussed, not a crime to be reported. An optimistic outlook is not an indication of insensitivity...
...much a part of Noriega's criminal empire that U.S. Attorney Kellner considered classifying the entire institution as a corrupt organization. According to investigators for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Affairs, which will hold hearings this week, Noriega demands a cut of almost every crime-related dollar deposited in Panama's 130 banks. Drug traffickers and money launderers who refuse to pay may have their shipments hijacked at gunpoint...