Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although 6-ft. 5-in. tall, Bernie Kosar of Youngstown, Ohio, and Miami, Fla., was still only 21. To give Kosar time, Veteran Gary Danielson was acquired from Detroit, but in the fifth game last season Danielson fell. By then, he knew his understudy's talent. "I'll either be out two weeks," he predicted, "or 15 years...
...showed that Gooden's blood-alcohol level exceeded legal intoxication limits. The Met star was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, and battery on a police officer. The FBI is investigating the possibility that Gooden's civil rights may have been violated. Meanwhile, in a Detroit courtroom De Lorean was acquitted on 15 counts of fraud and racketeering, which could have resulted in a prison sentence as long as 20 years. Upon hearing the verdict, De Lorean declared, "Praise God!" Newton was also in a thankful mood after a federal jury in Las Vegas found...
Already plagued by the nation's highest homicide rate, Detroit is experiencing an epidemic of children shooting children. As of Dec. 11, said a Detroit Free Press report, 341 youngsters under 17 had been shot this year, a sharp rise from last year, when 237 were shot, 31 of them fatally. Police have charged 36 children with homicide; the youngest is twelve...
...days before Williams' death, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young reluctantly signed a gun ordinance that imposes a minimum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. Young, who has beefed up Detroit's police force over the past 18 months and helped organize community action against crime, described the ordinance as "little more than a fig leaf covering . . . a very complex and very serious problem...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the international antiques business. When these books succeed in evoking an environment or ethos, the reader can more readily forgive any lack of suspense or ingenuity in the plot. Sometimes the writer depends on heavy research or personal knowledge: Tennis Star Ilie Nastase and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Writer Frank Deford both published...