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...crux of the problem is that, despite federal and city laws, the number of guns in Chicago has increased steadily over the years. "The guns just keep on coming in," says Homicide Commander William McCarthy. "We're simply outgunned." Police estimate that the citizens of Chicago (pop. 3.2 million) now own 1,500,000 guns, of which scarcely a third are legally registered. And these weapons are playing an ever larger role in the city's crime. In 1965 Chicago recorded 396 homicides, of which 156, or 39%, were committed with handguns; last year there were 864 homicides...
...have death certificates filed in their "names." Flanagan says that if the tissue had first been delivered to the Pathology Department at BCH--as it is supposed to be transferred--pathologists would have filled out death certificates and the alleged dissection would thus have been authorized. The "obvious crux" of the case, says Flanagan, is that the doctors failed to obtain such authorization...
...defense hopes that Flanagan will never get to explain his "obvious crux" before a jury, and it has submitted a barrage of preliminary motions in an effort to have the case thrown out of court. In a lengthy motion to dismiss, filed July 22, the lawyers say that the indictment is "vague," hence unconstitutional, because, they allege, it leaves their clients in the dark as to just what they are charged with...
Sadat warned Nixon that "the crux of the problem in the Middle East is the legitimate rights of the Palestine people, and unless this is implemented we feel that the prospects of peace will be waning." In reply, Nixon acknowledged the Palestinian problem and said that "it is not our intention that what we have done today is final. It is a beginning, a very good beginning, but there is more to be done and we look forward to working with...
...crux of the matter, and I say this with sorrow, is not really the territory or boundary. It is a question of whether they have acquiesced to our presence or haven't. And we have a right to be skeptical. No other country in the world has this problem-neighbors who are dedicated to the idea that you must be destroyed...