Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning were the words. At the top, verbal missiles fired in magisterial wrath: Ronald Reagan denouncing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" that had committed "a crime against humanity" when its fighters shot down a Korean jetliner; Yuri Andropov responding that the Reagan Administration had "finally dispelled" all "illusions" that it could be dealt with. At a baser level, crude vilification: American caricatures of Andropov as a "mutant from outer space"; Soviet comparisons of Reagan to Adolf Hitler...
...paper is a tabloid in spirit, though not in actual size: it emphasizes crime, sex, sports and weather, and devotes about half of each front page to local news. Combat in the Middle East got prominent play last week, but the paper was almost devoid of serious stories about politics or Government in Washington, and the results of Japan's elections were reported back on page 10. The business section depends heavily on wire-service copy and emphasizes consumers rather than industry and finance; the feature section resembles a traditional women's page, with stories about office parties...
Condemnation of the attack poured in from all sides. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock expressed his horror at "this insane assault upon innocent people." Calling the bombing "brutal and barbaric," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: "It is a crime against humanity, and at Christmas it is particularly cruel." Not surprisingly, the event stirred renewed calls for the death penalty for terrorist killings...
Many cities also now have agencies that work with victims and witnesses on protective measures. The ultimate and most expensive defense is to move the witness. The 13-year-old federal Witness Protection Program has relocated and changed the identities of some 4,000 witnesses hi organized-crime cases. Chicago now has its own relocation program, involving 150 witnesses last year. Despite such efforts, though, the problem defies easy solution. Even when a witness has full police protection, that protection will generally end with the trial. "These gangs have memories like elephants," says Los Angeles' Suarez. "They...
...Austin Sullivan, 36, convicted murderer; by electrocution, despite clemency pleas from seven Florida bishops and Pope John Paul II; at the state penitentiary in Starke, Fla. Sullivan was found guilty of the 1973 slaying of the night manager of a restaurant outside Miami. Although he first confessed to the crime, Sullivan later recanted. His cause was then taken up by priests who counseled him in prison. Sullivan's execution was the ninth in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted the ban on capital punishment...