Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded by apostasy, the crime of renouncing one's religious faith. In the Muslim faith, the traditional punishment for an apostate is death...
...West, political leaders and the general public alike reacted with anger and disbelief to the outrage of a foreign despot declaring a death sentence on another country's citizen whose only crime, at least in Western eyes, was to probe the meaning of his Islamic heritage. In Washington, the State Department said it was "appalled" by Khomeini's statement as well as by the reward for Rushdie's murder. The Dutch Foreign Minister canceled a trip to Tehran. The British government found itself at the center of the controversy -- because Rushdie is a British citizen and because its Tehran embassy...
...relief of many, what is also finally on the increase is the feeling among Americans that enough is enough. A TIME/CNN poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman last week found that 86% of those interviewed believe crime is getting worse and 84% think violence resulting from the use of guns is becoming a bigger problem. Fully 57% worry about becoming victims, 22% say they or members of their families have been threatened by someone with a gun, and 30% are so fearful of being assaulted on the street that they would just as soon carry a gun themselves. An overwhelming...
...would have been difficult to do justice to the Bundy story without in some way describing his grisly crimes. But on the day of his execution, did a Detroit TV station really have to rebroadcast file footage of Campbell's 1975 funeral? Last week 250 journalists, health-care professionals and members of the clergy gathered in Manhattan to explore such questions at a conference titled "Death, the Media and the Public: Needs of the Bereaved." Sponsored by the Foundation of Thanatology, a New York City-based organization devoted to studying bereavement, as well as the Dallas Morning News...
...revelations of God as recited by Mahound, Rushdie's fictional prophet. But the mischievous scribe repeatedly changes Mahound's words. When the prophet finally realizes that Salman has corrupted the text of his holy book, he explodes, "Your blasphemy can't be forgiven." The proper punishment for Salman's crime is death, but Mahound is merciful and spares his life...