Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...claim that the modern news business resists the seasonal lassitude. But consider the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, which played on Page One a wire-service tale proclaiming that some 8,000 Americans are injured each year by toothpicks. Consider especially the Milwaukee Journal, which gave front-page display to the theft from a clothesline of 21 socks that were drying in the sun. And what of the 22nd? Tune in next August...
...city's inhabitants are unemployed, but underemployment runs to nearly 40%. As one U.S. expert puts it, "If a 35-year-old man with a wife and children spends his days hoping to shine shoes, is he employed?" To some, the answer lies in burglary and theft, which have risen 35% in the past year...
DIED. Raymond Patriarca, 76, undisputed godfather of organized crime in New England for a quarter of a century; of a heart attack; in Providence. Despite more than 40 arrests and 18 convictions for crimes including bootlegging, armed robbery, auto theft, and breaking and entering, the Massachusetts-born Patriarca always denied that he was anything but a legitimate vending-machine distributor. Indicted in 1980 and 1981 on charges of labor racketeering and ordering the execution of two underworld figures, he never stood trial because of poor health...
Mark McDermott, 48, a native of Taunton, Mass., was arrested at Dulles Airport because he is wanted by New Hampshire police in connection with a theft investigation. He and freed Prisoner Calvin Privette, 29, were charged with drug trafficking in Cuba in 1982 after their boat drifted into Cuban territory...
...link between the newly enforced policy and less crime has been established, but Flick said. "There hasn't been a major theft...