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...more and more citizens, long schooled in aggressive defense against external enemies, are turning pent-up energies against their fellows. Since 1971 crime in the small country (pop. 4.5 million) has gone up 21.7%. Robbery is up 50%, juvenile delinquency 12%. When Israeli cops are not rounding up petty rip-off artists, drug pushers and hookers, they work on their country's trickiest police problem: beating terrorists to the explosion...
...medieval record-keeping system bulging with 5? million case files. Concedes Robert Farmer, the bureau's claims director: "We're the biggest casualty insurance company in the world, but you can almost write your name backward and get a claim. It's ripe for rip...
...bitterly denounced by Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear Navy. His nuclear propulsion division happens to be responsible for many of the costly design changes at the Newport yard, where 16 nuclear-powered vessels are under construction. Rickover describes the claims as potentially "one of the biggest rip-offs in the history of the U.S." He charges that the builders are owned by industrial conglomerates that "don't care whether they are making ships or horse turds...
Barry Haight, attorney for Louis R. Mathis, one of the robbery suspects, named Raymond "Rip" Palmer as the other assailant in an affidavit filed with the clerk of the Middlesex Superior Court...
...tidy rip-off here, a tasteful price-gouge there−it was all to be expected once the Democrats had picked New York City as the site of their convention. But not even the worldly-wise among the press had anticipated the size of the serpents that lurk around the Big Apple and its Garden; Madison Square, that...