Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advocates of the Shah's removal is Ayatullah Khomeini, the 76-year-old mullah who is now the undisputed spiritual and political leader of Iran's 32 million Shi'ite Muslims, who comprise 93% of the population. A longtime opponent of the Shah, Khomeini was exiled in 1963 following violent demonstrations against the Shah's land reforms. Two weeks ago, he was expelled from Iraq, where he had kept his headquarters and served as a catalyst to the opposition against the Shah. He is now temporarily residing in France...
...long been liberal dogma that to eliminate crime, society must eliminate the causes: poverty and racial inequality. But even as the U.S. was pouring billions into social welfare programs, and systematically attacking discrimination, during the '60s and early '70s, violent crime was booming. Since 1960 the rate of robbery, murder and rape has almost tripled. Lately it has become fashionable to target the culprits, not the causes?simply to catch criminals and lock them...
Which brings him back to Square 1. Violent crime is committed by society's outcasts, the poor and left-behind minorities who see no stake in preserving the way things are and who see crime as the only way "to get one's fair share in an unfair world." But, asks Silberman, how does one explain why blacks have a much higher crime rate than Hispanics, who are usually just as poor and suffer just as much discrimination? In New York City, for instance, a recent study shows that blacks commit four times as many robberies as Hispanics, though their...
...very presence; it would be hard to overestimate what an extraordinarily liberating force this discovery is." The almost pathetic hopefulness of the motto of the Tuskegee Institute class of 1886?"There's always room at the top" ?finally gave way to the angry oath of a Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee leader in 1965: "If we can't sit at the table, let's knock the f???-legs...
...many persons would be freed on Dec. 10, the day the United Nations celebrates human rights. It appeared that persons jailed for inciting public unrest in the nationwide demonstrations that have killed 1 000 people since January would be released, but not those convicted of violent politically motivated acts...