Word: detroit
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...juveniles; in Chicago last year, 1,293 youths, one only eight years old, were arrested with guns in their possession. Last week in Oklahoma, two brothers, 12 and 10, were charged with shooting a 49-year-old grocer to death. Startling accidents happen, especially around inexperienced gun handlers. A Detroit man heard footsteps in his home, saw the knob of his bedroom door open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol?and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang...
...Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view. As Detroit Police Commissioner Ray Girardin puts it: "When people have guns, they use them. A wife gets mad at her husband, and instead of throwing a dish she grabs the gun and kills him." Agrees Psychiatrist Robert Coles: "Every psychiatrist has treated patients who were thankful that guns were not around...
...computer line last week, by mid-June Nashville and Omaha will follow suit, with Norfolk and Seattle due to join the system by July 1. By then Realtron hopes to have its intercity circuits working effectively. First two areas to start exchanging data will be northern Virginia and Detroit. Pictures of the homes will be converted into small film clips and flashed on a screen, thus bringing closer the day when families can pick their houses across the U.S. on a national computer network as easily as if they were house hunting down the street...
...money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that the Steelworkers themselves won two weeks ago in coming to terms on a new contract with the aluminum industry...
...Detroit, a man named Lobsinger tells a Lions Club meeting that the ghetto riots there were "training exercises" for a Communist takeover of the U.S., and that prudent citizens should 1) arm themselves, and 2) lay in a one-month supply of beans, canned foods, brewers' yeast, pet food, evaporated milk, whisky, toilet paper, soap and "haircutting tools" for use during the coming disorders. After the meeting, a club member tells Wakefield: "Hell, on my block we're already armed...