Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Compared with many other stories, the Goetz phenomenon was easy to report, if only because nearly everyone, from law-enforcement authorities to the man or woman in the street, has a ready opinion on violent crime. TIME correspondents working on this week's cover stories gathered a full sample of such reactions across the country. They also found themselves remembering their own experiences with crime and criminals...
...York Correspondent Barry Kalb covered the latest indictment of the subway gunman and talked to defense lawyers to turn up new details about Goetz's personality and past. Kalb also drew on his experience covering Watergate to report on how grand juries work. His New York colleague, Correspondent Kenneth Banta, talked with Goetz's neighbors and friends and rode the city's subways for a day to canvass straphangers on the level and fear of crime. Banta knows about crime first hand: he was the victim of an attempted mid-Manhattan robbery six years ago. While reporting this week...
With his hunched, narrow shoulders, his chin tucked resolutely into his chest, and his slinky, slouched walk, Bernhard Hugo Goetz looks rather like a human question mark. The inner man bears the same punctuation: Victim or victimizer? Hero or malefactor? Loner or leader? He is gentle, but demonstrably violent. Personable, but introverted. Idealistic, but cynical. He desires privacy, but has courted publicity. He is humble, but strangely messianic. He lives in New York City, but claims to loathe it. He is not indicted for attempted murder; he is indicted for attempted murder. In his public statements and interviews...
...original, eerily accurate police drawing of Goetz showed the face of the "before" figure in comic-book ads for body-building devices, the pale visage of the scrawny, bespectacled fellow at the beach who gets sand kicked in his face by a burly bully. When the news first flashed that a wispy-haired man in a windbreaker had shot four teenagers who threatened him on the subway, that 98-lb. weakling became overnight a quixotic urban American hero. Because nothing much was known about him, the 37-year-old electrical engineer became a tabula rasa on which Americans etched their...
...Goetz's attorneys, Joseph Kelner, was not happy about his client's recent volubility. The more Goetz talks, admitted Kelner, the more difficult he is to defend...