Word: crimeeds
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...probe. Despite the admissions and contradictions of top officials who were questioned, including CIA Director William Casey and White House Chief of Staff James Baker, the department argued that there is inadequate "specific" information to warrant a further investigation. Argues the appeals brief: "None of this amounts to a crime, or even indicates the time, place or manner of a potential crime...
...Brooklyn Organized Crime Strike Force are now investigating charges that Sharer or other Schiavone investigators used illegal wiretaps against the Senate committee. The inquiries came after Frank Smist, a University of Oklahoma graduate student, gave federal officials information about the case he had gathered during a two-year study of congressional investigations. Smist and a Washington journalist said Sharer admitted using an "infinity transmitter," which makes it possible to listen in on bugged conversations illegally from a distant phone. Sharer denies that he engaged in wiretapping but charges that another Schiavone spy did so. He says he will turn over...
...SINGLE most frequently committed crime in the United States takes place behind closed doors. Every year an estimated 28 million women are the victims of violence at the hands of their husbands or boyfriends. Nevertheless, a bill is now working its way through the Massachusetts Legislature that would it passed into law dramatically reduce the legal options available to battered women...
...significant study that recently came out of Minneapolis refutes this belief and shows that arrest is the best deterrant to the crime. For a period of eighteen months a group of researchers monitored a police force that had agreed to vary their responses to domestic violence calls. One group of officers arrested the men, another group told the men to take a walk around the block to "cool down" (a common police response to domestic violence calls), and another group tried to mediate between the couple and did not arrest...
...nation. A handful of the 185,000 young teaching volunteers from Managus and other cities went to Pantasma. Many of their students became teachers themselves. They were the first to die at the hands of the Contras. Some of them were beheaded, to serve as examples to others. "Their crime? The crime of these teachers is that they were trying to get people out of their illiteracy situation, which was inherited from the Somocista dictatorship," said Almado Felipe Guittieretz, one of three out of a total of 10 militiamen who survived the day long attack...