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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...
Although New York "Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz is reputed to be publicity shy, he was anything but reticent last week. Goetz seemed to be everywhere, telling his increasingly disputed story about shooting and wounding four black teenagers who approached him on a Manhattan subway last Dec. 22. He appeared on local television news shows, wrote a bylined article for the New York Post, and ate take-out Chinese food with Barbara Walters in his 14th Street apartment for ABC's 20/20. ABC broadcast segments of a tape made by New Hampshire police on which Goetz is heard saying, "I knew...
...Goetz may tell his story next week to a second grand jury investigating him. The tactic is unorthodox; if he testifies (no date has yet been set), he waives immunity and anything he says can be used against him later in court. The grand jury, which was convened last week on the basis of new evidence, heard testimony from a subway passenger who contradicted Goetz's account of the shooting. Two of the gunman's victims, Troy Canty and James Ramseur, also appeared after they were granted immunity...
...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...