Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called Last Year in Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding," says his film-school friend Stanley Weiser, who is collaborating with Stone on a script about Wall Street crime. "A real macho man who carried the torture of Viet Nam with him but never talked about...
...uneducated and overflowing with rage. In their fierce battle to gain control of communities like Soweto, they have become the chief users of necklaces, the executioners who make the night a time of terror for the black populace. Barbara Harker, training manager in Johannesburg for the National Institute for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders, has studied the comrades. She concluded that the poverty and hopelessness of life in the townships make them impulsive and largely incapable of compromise. The primary object of their wrath is anyone suspected of collaborating with the government. The victim's "crime" can be trivial...
...demand for Hamadei could hit a legal snag. Under terms of a 1978 U.S.-West German extradition treaty, Bonn will not extradite suspects who would face the death penalty in an American court for the crime involved. Hamadei could be executed if he is convicted in the U.S. At week's end American and West German diplomats in Bonn were discussing other possible means of bringing Hamadei to the U.S. besides formal extradition. Said a State Department official: "It's just a question of working out procedures." A Justice Department spokesman refused to say whether the U.S. would waive...
...emigres gave various reasons for their departure, ranging from simple homesickness to plaintive criticisms of American society. Some complained of intense competition and difficulty making ends meet. Others cited a paralyzing fear of crime, while at least one woman expressed concern that her teenage daughter might start using drugs if she stayed in America. In the Soviet Union, she reasoned, her daughter would be safe...
...reversing a long-standing policy virtually barring the return of emigrants and then scheduling a large group to return on one day. The Soviet press gave heavy play to the arrivals, including some Jews, pronouncing that the sorry souls had found "ruthless competition, the spirit of money-making, crime and drug addiction" in America...