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...fear violence from fellow inmates. According to survivors, the "execution squad" doused some men with gasoline and set them on fire; others were hacked to death with homemade knives. Members of the squad killed one prisoner with a blowtorch, holding him before a window in full view of the lawen forcement officials and National Guards men who had gathered outside the 15-ft. prison fences...
Crime Tolerance. Nowhere is public and police indifference greater than in the big cities, where the violent-crime rate is already five times higher than in rural areas. Harassed, overworked and underpaid, metropolitan police often are not only unable but unwilling to deal with any except the most serious lawen forcement problems. In Detroit, for ex ample, until the city installed a new computerized data-collecting system, many precinct lieutenants let their officers ignore the most obvious signs of burglary - pry marks on a door - and list only a broken window...
...Lawen, director of the CAA, says that "the greatest single problem we face is air traffic control." The CAA's inability to cope with the situation is not entirely its own fault. Its requests for appropriations are consistently halved by the Commerce Department and the Bureau of the Budget. In 1956, the agency began a five-year, $246 million development program which may produce some good results...
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