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...those who wonder what to believe, things get harder all the time. Sociologists insist that newspapers often manufacture "crime waves." Once an unusual holdup catches an editor's eye, every similar crime is. reported as one more chilling example of the same-even though at the end of a year the headlined crime wave didn't make a real blip in police statistics. The murders of black children in Atlanta captured the press's attention because some killings seemed the work of a demonic psycho. The killings were awful; the concern is real, but the news interest...
Kids say the darnedest things. Why, only the other day a nine-year-old named Robert-his surname remains undisclosed-marched into a busy midtown Manhattan bank and said, "This is a holdup! Don't say a silent word!" The teller giggled-until the child leveled a silver automatic at her. "I have a gun and give me money," the boy insisted. After receiving $118, Robert smiled, said "Thanks," and ran off into history as the city's youngest bank robber...
...trial were arrested in the Chicago suburb of Evanston,Ill., last April following the holdup of a car rental agency. Four months later in Cook County courtrooms, two were convicted of robbery and sentenced to 30 years, while the others received eight-year terms for conspiracy and weapons violations. Since some of them would have been eligible for parole in 1984, the Federal Government brought charges of its own, including seditious conspiracy and illegal use of weapons. In all, the feds linked the group to 28 bomb plots in the Chicago area...
...agreement over the hostages began to take shape last month, the Soviets seemed to be worried about a rapprochement between the U.S. and Iran. Said TASS: "What is in the making is another U.S. holdup of Iran." Two weeks ago, TASS reported that the U.S. was getting ready to invade Iran from bases in Egypt, Pakistan or Oman. The fabricated report was thought to be an attempt to scuttle the negotiations. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie summoned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and demanded a halt to the "scurrilous propaganda." Dobrynin appeared embarrassed, but TASS responded by warning...
...case that Bowden could not have committed the robbery that led police to stake out his car in the first place. For example, the suspects were tall and thin; Bowden, at 5 ft. 4 in. and 180 Ibs., was neither. He had only one thing in common with the holdup men: he was black. Said O'Donnell in his final argument: "Bigotry pulled those triggers...