Word: bernhard
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Ever since he shot and wounded four youths who had approached him on a Manhattan subway in December 1984, Bernhard Goetz has been alternately hailed as a hero in the war against crime and condemned as a trigger-happy gunman. Now a jury will be asked to decide which label fits him. The New York State Court of Appeals last week reinstated attempted murder and assault charges against Goetz, ordering him to stand trial as early as Sept...
Whomever it was that Levine traded tips with, he allegedly conducted his deals through Bernhard Meier, 35, an executive for the Bahamas subsidiary of Bank Leu, a Swiss institution with headquarters in Zurich. Meier, who is accused of pocketing $152,000 from Levine's insider trades, was charged last week as an accomplice in the case. Their first transaction took place in May 1980, when Levine was an associate at Smith Barney. He bought 1,500 shares of Dart Industries and sold them less than two weeks later for a modest profit of $4,000, when Dart announced that...
...four youths who were shot while menacing Bernhard Goetz on a New York City subway in December 1984 gained nationwide attention as victims of a trigger- happy vigilante. Now they are attracting attention for another reason. Last week James Ramseur, 19, was convicted of raping a woman in the Bronx last May; he faces a prison sentence of up to 25 years. On the same day, a New York justice ordered Barry Allen, 20, to serve the remainder of a four-year term for robbery after Allen broke his parole by stealing a gold chain. Troy Canty, 20, was sentenced...
...took two incidents to focus the story. One was the brutal murder in Chicago last year of a black high school basketball star, Ben Wilson, by two youths who seemed to have no motive at all. The other was the incredible burst of support from black New Yorkers for Bernhard Goetz, the white subway vigilante. He was a lightning rod for the fears that many blacks have of their own violent young...
...crimes that evoke the most fear." This fear is felt by all Americans, but the anxiety felt by blacks is more intense, more pervasive, more real, for they are the ones who suffer most from violence. The white fear of black violence, recently personified by Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz, does not reflect reality: only 5% of the nation's 11,300 one-on-one slayings in 1983 involved whites killed by blacks...