Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This kind of double standard has become especially glaring ever since the government launched an unprecedentedly severe crackdown on crime last summer. Although 6,000 Chinese have been executed, high-level party leaders continue to escape prosecution, let alone imprisonment. "Is everybody really equal under the law?" asked the People's Daily. Earlier this year, the paper published the shocking story of Duan Yuanlai, former director of the Changde City Tobacco Plant. In 1969 he was charged with murder. A witness's false evidence won his acquittal. In 1978 he was charged with rape, but no action was taken when...
...during a struggle with police. In Texas, Henry Lee Lucas, who boasts of killing some 360 people, was condemned to death for one of those murders. Against that shocking tableau of recent criminal violence, many Americans might find it difficult to credit some good news from Washington last week: crime, said the FBI, declined more sharply during 1983 than in any other year since...
...number of serious crimes reported to the police last year, according to the bureau's Uniform Crime Report, dipped 7%. The downturn comes after a 3% drop in 1982 and no increase in 1981. The 1983 decrease was across the board; violent crimes (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) were off 5%, while property crimes fell 7%. The biggest declines: burglary (-10%) and arson (-13%). The trend was consistent throughout the country, affecting communities of all sizes...
Harvard Police Deputy Police Chief Jack W. Morse said yesterday that Doherty broke into the building by smashing a ground floor window. When police arrested Doherty close to the scene of the crime at about 11 p.m. Monday, police said, his hands were cut and he was carrying sever it items...
Cenci (David Wingrove) is a man fed up with the hypocrisies of the Renaissance Church, personified by Camillo (Roger Kaplan). We know that Camillo embodies these hypocrisies--he always wears a miter--especially since he denounces Cenci for some unnamed crime, yet wants to punish our hero by taking away his estates in the name of the Church, thereby revealing greed. To demonstrate his contempt for this false system of values, Cenci embarks on a spree of killing and feasting, all leading up to his "defilement" of his daughter Beatrice (Susan Kelly). "For me," he says, "life, death, god, incest...