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...method to Oney's seeming madness. Journalistically speaking, he came of age in his college town, Athens, Ga., where he edited the student magazine and wrote for the daily newspaper, the "Red and Black." And his most recent experiences in journalism have concerned the most sensational mass murder spree since Lizzie Borden took up her axe, the Atlanta child murders. In covering that story, Oney had to make the moral judgments a journalist must in any situation where the desire to scoop other reporters conflicts with the danger inherent in leaking sensitive information...
...week accepted the 192-page report of the Administration's Task Force on Violent Crime. Set up last March and chaired by former Attorney General Griffin Bell and Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson, the eight-member panel recommended a posse of reforms designed to stem the national crime spree...
Those who are so quick to blame Prime Minister Thatcher and her tight-fisted monetary policies for England's urban riots [July 20] forget that America's riots in the '60s took place during the spending spree of Lyndon Baines Johnson, author of the Great Society...
Will that money go toward a massive national spending spree, driving up inflation as too many dollars chase too few goods? Or will it go toward saving and investment? The Administration is betting that, given the certainty of three years of tax cuts, people will put away more than the 4.7% of earnings they now save. An increase of only 1% in the savings rate from U.S. personal income of $2.1 trillion would provide $21 billion in extra money for new plants and equipment, increase industrial output and jobs, making the economy grow...
While the President fiddled, a number of his appointees diddled, in a truly baroque spree of systematic stealing. Attorney General Harry Daugherty was perhaps the most clever and rapacious. Daugherty shared a Washington house with one Jess Smith, a fellow Ohioan and a proven fixer and bribe taker. Smith granted favors and made promises that only the Attorney General could deliver, kept up to half a million dollars buried in a friend's backyard and walked around wearing a money belt filled with 75 $1,000 bills. When the jig was nearly up, Smith committed suicide. To thwart...