Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect to observe a flight from megacounties as people begin to reflect on the quality of life there. I am a refugee from the highly touted San Diego megacounty, and I left because I disliked the air, noise, traffic, crime and stress of living with 2.2 million other people. I moved to a town of about 300 residents, where I live on 67 acres of land, which includes a barn and a pond teeming with bass and bluegill. To the person who claims life in Southern California is "like being on vacation except you get to live here...
...widely quoted 1983 speech. At least 28 of the continent's 53 states have only one political party, and 27 African nations are under military rule. Countries ranging from Guinea in West Africa to Somalia in the east have gone so far as to declare dissent a treasonable crime that can be punished by death. Notes British Historian Lord Blake: "The political tradition in many parts of Africa is authoritarian, and that's what has taken over...
...case of People v. Bernhard Goetz raised such basic and emotional questions about a man's right to defend himself, about street crime and racism, that the jury decision on this inherently inconsequential shooting prompted headlines around the world. SUBWAY VIGILANTE CLEARED, said the London Times. SCARY SUBWAY, SELF-DEFENSE, said Tokyo's Sankei Shimbun. "Despite the virtuous denials of the jury," declared Paris' Le Monde, "no one believed, of course, that the verdict would have been the same if the accused had been black and the 'victims' white...
This was a jury of ordinary people, people who ride the crime-ridden subway and know how things are down there. Six of the twelve had been victims of street crime. Anyone taking a subway ride last week could hear similar views. "I can understand what Goetz did," said Eileen Dudley, a black secretary. "I was held up once. You would do anything in that situation...
...acquittal raises questions about an individual' s right to self- defense, about street crime and racism. -- The President prepares for battle as Congress moves toward a tax increase. -- A retired CIA director stops by KGB headquarters on a trip to Moscow. -- Once again Oliver North refuses to testify. -- The Administration is accused of using the Saudis to fund Angolan rebels...