Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been censured or face disciplinary action in the affair, including the officer who supervised Billig's recruitment, Commander Reginald Newman. The recruiter was convicted of perjury at a court-martial in January, fined $10,000 and docked $2,000 a month in salary for ten years. His crime: withholding information from an investigating team regarding Billig's competence. Perhaps because the Navy has difficulty attracting experienced surgeons (their average pay is $70,000, vs. nearly $240,000 in private practice), it apparently had decided to overlook Billig's poor record and his poor eyesight...
...accord, drafted with U.S. help following the Nazi Holocaust, makes the mass murder of national, ethnic, racial or religious groups an international crime. Over the years, U.S. opponents of the treaty, most of them Senate conservatives, have said they had no quarrel with its sentiments but argued that the pact would permit foreigners to meddle in American domestic affairs. Last May the Senate passed a resolution that allows the U.S. to exempt itself from World Court jurisdiction over treaty cases. That provided the cover Congress needed and finally cleared the way for the U.S. officially to endorse...
...victory; a battle is won, but the was isn't over," said Jeremiah O'Sullivan, head of the New England Organized Crime Strike Force and chief prosecutor in the case...
Koch heralds their refutation of "environmental" theories of crime as the last word, the "slap in the face" to the perceived arrogance of liberal "intellectual elites...
...real-world implications of this misguided intellectual dilettantism are unpleasant. It is questionable whether a politician whose rhetoric is so polarized and whose actions are so unprincipled will be able to deal realistically with the difficult yet manageable problem of crime. It is to be hoped that Koch's recently-intensified repressive attitudes will not result in equally repressive policy, as other New York Democrats uphold the state's prohibition on capital punishment...