Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position, such measures would fall far short of what is needed to curb domestic violence. The simple fact is that more than 50 million handguns are is circulation in the United States today, and the number grows by two million a year. More than 11,000 Americans fall victim each year to handgun deaths. Hart's proposals are unlikely to lower this toll. His suggested background check would have little impact. First, states which already have such procedures acknowledge that because of limited police resources, they rarely run the examination. Second, a large portion of violent crimes are committed...
...vendetta by federal authorities who are unhappy with some of his rulings. Among them: Claiborne's occasional refusal to issue search warrants and his dismissal of several cases brought before him by the U.S. Government. Oscar Goodman, Claiborne's chief counsel, says that the judge is a victim of the long-running feud between federal lawmen and the Nevada Establishment. Says he: "The feds have tried to create the picture that we're all crooks and Mafia soldiers crawling around here...
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...
...Texas engineer; of charges of holding up a fried-chicken restaurant for $615, for which he was convicted and given a life sentence in October 1982 despite testimony from his colleagues that he was at work at the time; in Dallas. A publicity campaign contending that Geter was a victim of racism, and a 60 Minutes segment last December, had already pressured the Dallas county district attorney into granting a new trial, scheduled for April 9, when another suspect was implicated last week...
Christina, 33, a successful actress, began using cocaine to bolster her selfesteem. Too often she felt like a victim, but free-basing three to eight grams of coke a day, she recalls, "made everything all right." Her $3,000-a-week habit left her deep in debt, and after two years, she had her first attack of "coke bugs," a standard problem for free-basers, or smokers of cocaine. Her skin felt as if it were alive with fleas. She took four showers a day and rubbed her skin raw. A doctor, concerned about her hallucinations, warned that cocaine...