Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above the $2,400 ceiling set by OEO. Five members of the Colorado Springs anti-poverty governing body were found to have police records for such offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received $2,400,000 from OEO, were subpoenaed by the district attorney, whose suspicion was aroused when a youngster complained that he had not been paid in five weeks. A suspended aide then accused the officials of misusing city and federal funds, paying...
...very ill as he paced his palace corridors. In fact, his familiar charm seemed still to have some of its old effect. The army reluctantly called a halt to its roundup of Communists and even anti-Red newspapers were responding to the call for unity. But if, after the murder of the generals, Sukarno can get the infuriated army once again to work in tandem with the Communists, he deserves top honors as a mediator-or magician...
...making war in their own macabre way. Two American prisoners of war, Captain Humbert R. Versace and Sergeant Kenneth M. Roraback, were executed by the Communists in reprisal for Saigon's shooting of three Danang agitators. The Reds' disregard of the Geneva Convention could only be termed murder-which is precisely what the U.S. branded it last week...
...Hanoi, U.S. pilots downed over North Viet Nam would be regarded as "war criminals liable to go before tribunals," Nuremberg-style. The Saigon government, whose crackdown of Viet Cong terrorists was the nominal trigger of the Red reprisals, responded to the cruel dilemma. Last week, five criminals convicted of murder and rape were publicly executed in a downtown square. The life of a Viet Cong agitator was spared...
...reporting, Capote contrasts the stolid, generally sunny life of the murdered farm family with the eerie twilight world of the two killers. He limns the small-town Midwest of homemade pies, 4-H meetings and simple pieties. By dramatically re-creating the Clutter family-Father Herbert, who served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such...