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...enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed-to-protect-the-innocent-and-save-us-from-a-lawsuit rundown of the murders, with a little sex and some ethnic name-calling thrown in, presumably to distinguish the book's heroic police inspector from the strait-laced Sgt. Friday Readers looking for a thoughtful analysis of the tortured reasoning--or lack thereof--that could lead to six random murders will...
...help alleviate overcrowding in state mental hospitals. The Federal Government assumed that patients would lead more normal lives in a community setting and thus have a better chance of making a recovery, but just the opposite seems to have happened. Thousands of them have been placed by states in rundown housing, where they are unable to care for themselves and get no follow-up treatment. Certain areas have become saturated with these patients, who are often resented and feared by their neighbors. After releasing the results of a House committee survey on the subject last month, Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper...
Culver's colleague, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.), will speak on "District Redlining," the policy of some banks to refuse loans to residents of certain rundown neighborhoods, in Gund Hall's Piper Auditorium Saturday...
...evoke in their youth, dedication and hand-in-glove collaborative ease. They even had a "Deep Nightstick," a source with close ties to the police department who nudged their investigations in the right direction. Neumann and Marimow's first major step was obtaining from court administrators a rundown of pretrial hearings in 433 Philadelphia homicide cases between 1974 and 1977. To their surprise, statements or confessions had been thrown out because of illegal interrogation in 80 of the cases, but no action had been taken against the cops. To check out the 80 incidents, the reporters labored...
This year's winter struck hard at Mary Northern, 72, who lived alone in a rundown, unheated house in Nashville. Alerted by neighbors, police took her against her will to a hospital. Miss Mary, as she is known, was found to have gangrene in both her frostbitten feet. Surgeons recommended amputation. Miss Mary refused...