Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sons of rich, prominent Filipinos, impulsive lawbreaking is nothing to worry about. Even in cases of assault or murder, the police are apt to stall, witnesses to forget, and prosecutors to drop charges. Thus, Manila barely blinked recently when two well-dressed bucks shot and killed a man outside a brothel, and fled in their car. Then, surprise. Under Secretary of Justice Claudio Teehankee almost immediately produced one of the suspects - his own son, Roberto, 24. "I've been urging prosecutors to let the chips fall where they may," explained the intense, crusading Teehankee. "I simply had to practice...
Such rectitude is long overdue in the violent Philippines, where the crime rate jumped 51% last year. Conservative predictions of 1966 crime statistics foresee 9,000 murders, 5,000 rapes, 7,000 armed robberies, 20,000 thefts and 25,000 cases of assault. This, in a country with a population of 33.5 million, works out to one murder per 3,720 people; in Japan, the ratio is one murder per 44,190. Legally, Filipinos own more firearms (at least 300,000) than the entire military and police forces. Illegally, they pack 300,000 "loose" or unlicensed weapons, ranging from...
...shot a barmaid twice and killed the manager as he knelt in front of his safe from which he had just handed over the cash. The barmaid managed to give police a description. Next day police spotted the getaway car, found McChan in it, held him on suspicion of murder...
...Police Department is out to get Danny Escobedo," charged Lawyer Marshall Schwarzbach in a Chicago courtroom last week. The police, he said, have made Danny (TIME cover, April 29) their "most hated person" because they resent the 1964 Supreme Court decision that voided his murder admission (Escobedo v. Illinois) and set the stage for last June's decision to apply the rights of silence and counsel to all police interrogation (Miranda v. Arizona...
...brilliant episode of cinematic exposition, the photographer simultaneously develops his film and his dilemma. As shot after shot is blown up, both the photographer and the audience perceive without a word of explanation what the camera had accidentally recorded and the girl has desperately tried to conceal: the murder of her companion in the park...