Word: safely
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...appears, are most Americans. Bingeing on a diet of local news stories that graphically depict crime invading once safe ports -- schools, restaurants, courtrooms, homes, libraries -- Americans are rapidly coming to regard the summer of '93 as a season in hell. Indeed, a spate of events in the past two weeks seemed to argue that no one and no place was immune, not a respected schoolteacher living in a small town in Texas, not even the father of a megastar athlete driving a car down the highway...
...epidemic of shooting sprees in malls, McDonald's restaurants and movie theaters has fostered the perception that almost no place is safe anymore. Fear has led to a boom in the security industry and the transformation of homes and public places into fortresses. "People are worried more. They're worried sick," says Amitai Etzioni, a sociologist at George Washington University. "There is a new level of fright, one that is both overdone and realistic at the same time...
...ASSAULT IN SMALL TOWN, U.S.A. Tomball, Texas (pop. 6,370), is the safe sort of town where many residents leave their front doors unlocked at night. The quiet middle-class community may rethink such nocturnal habits after the strangling death last Tuesday of 82-year-old Mildred Stallones, a retired schoolteacher. A respected member of the community who was known for her generosity to children, Stallones was found in her old frame house. Police are still trying to determine if rape was involved. Beyond a forced entry into the house, police have little to offer: no motive, no suspects...
Until now Tomball has suffered only the occasional property crime. "This is a wake-up call for anyone in Tomball who may have got complacent about living here," says police chief Paul Michna. "Nowhere is safe." Since Stallones was found, some of the town's elderly citizens have asked to move in with their children. Stallones' former daughter-in-law, Kerri Harrington, has barely slept since learning of the murder. "Before, I felt safe," she says. "Now I know this horrible crime could happen anywhere to anyone...
...fitting week, then, for Clinton to stand in the Rose Garden, ringed by rigid men and women in blue, and declare his support for a major crime bill based on the premise that "the first duty of any government is to try to keep its citizens safe, but clearly too many Americans are not safe today." Both the mood of the country and the climate of his presidency called for the flashing of a sword. That only left the question of whether the bill would pass and whether it would work...