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...year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive. In Thevis' car, police found seven guns, $1 million in diamond and emerald...
...only in supervisory skills, but also in new crime prevention and protection techniques. For the first time since its existence, the police department is providing its officers with the opportunity to develop their skills through attendance at one-week course programs in the Boston area. Drug education and enforcement, arson investigation, rape victimology and crime scene search are just a few of the areas in which officers have received instruction over the last few months, and Chafin expects the training program to be ongoing...
Many workers seized on the unrest to press for specific noneconomic reforms as well. Employees at major banks, which have been a frequent target of fire bombs and arson by antigovernment demonstrators, walked out, demanding that they be given protective security. The press, which was partly unshackled last month, successfully won an end to all censorship. Employees of the government-financed National Iranian Radio and Television network, who struck for the second time last week, demanded-and got-Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami's assurance that there would be no more government interference. Workers at one Tehran daily even struck...
Bellotti, despite the debits of the PCM-MBM affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
Meantime, Badillo estimates the Puerto Rican school-dropout rate at 85%. Discouraged youngsters are almost natural prospects for membership in the city's underclass, quickly contributing to the ghetto plagues of violent crime, drug use and arson. Says one Lower East Side youngster: "A lot of kids want an education to get out of here. But in order to survive, they're dealing [drugs]. Kids ten and eleven make more money than their old man in the factory." Says another: "I saw some pictures of this place 20 years ago, and it had benches and trees. We took...