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Truce or no truce, no one can deny that gangs are a serious and growing problem. A 235-page report issued in May by the staff of L.A. County district attorney Ira Reiner estimated that the region has about 1,000 gangs with a total membership of 150,000. The study said gang-related homicides in the county increased more than 200% between 1984 and 1991. While drugs and gangs are intertwined, the D.A.'s staff concluded that most gang members are not serious drug dealers. The report's most striking claim was that half of all black males...
White House campaign officials insist Bush did not let election-year politics dictate his decision, but Ira Kurzban, lawyer for Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, believes otherwise. "The Haiti policy," he says, "plays to the basest part of the Republican Party, the anti-alien group, the racists, to keep them from crossing over to Ross Perot...
...Ira E. Stoll contributed to the reporting ofthis article.Crimson File PhotoPresident NEIL L. RUDENSTINE addressesKennedy School students at one of the graduateschool's open town meeting forums...
NEWS EDITOR FOR THIS ISSUE: Maggie S. Tucker '93 NIGHT EDITORS: Julian E. Barnes '93 Philip P. Pan '93 D. Richard de Silva '94 Ivan Oransky '94 Ira E. Stoll '94 EDITORIAL EDITOR: John A. Cloud '93 FEATURE EDITOR: Lan N. Nguyen '93 PHOTO EDITORS: Coky T. Nguyen '95 Michael D. Rosenbaum '94 CLASS DAY EDITOR: Mark N. Templeton '93 DESIGN EDITORS: James Cham '95 Nancy E. Green '95 Dante E.A. Ramos '93 BUSINESS EDITOR: Michael A. Schoen '93 STUFF CHAIRS: Alessandra M. Galloni '95 Eli e G. Kaunfer...
...What the Supreme Court is saying now is states have got remarkably better at guaranteeing certain liberties," says Ira Robbins, a habeas corpus specialist at Washington's American University law school. In the state courthouses, where the trials are held, however, the guarantee of competent counsel looks rather threadbare. Some cities maintain public-defender offices % to provide attorneys to indigent defendants. Well-funded offices can often afford attorneys who specialize in criminal law and even capital crimes. But a number of states -- including several Southern states with the nation's highest execution rates -- use a shakier system of court-appointed...