Word: commitement
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...evening that he confessed: he found Lee; they argued; he broke her nose, and bludgeoned her in the back of the head three times with the blunt side of a tire iron. He then pulled her body out of sight. He returned nine hours later to the park to commit an act of necrophilia, and bury her body in a shallow grave under a bush...
...office was located. Nikolayev was arrested, probably because he looked suspicious. He was searched and found to be carrying a gun. Yet he was set free. The only conclusion is that he was released on orders from higher-ups in the same organization who had sent him to commit a terrorist act. A short time afterward, Nikolayev penetrated Smolny and shot Kirov as he was coming up the stairway. Kirov's bodyguard had lagged behind...
...already dodging complaints that his quiet, cautious manner -- deemed an asset during last fall's election campaign -- was not well suited to leading the fight against crime. With budgetary constraints frustrating his efforts to fulfill a campaign promise to expand the force, the mayor consistently refused to commit himself to a specific number before receiving a manpower report from police commissioner Lee Brown on Oct. 1. Cuomo's address, and a growing sense of crisis, forced Dinkins at last to announce that an additional 3,000 to 6,000 police would be hired. "If the broader message has not been...
...shock of Watkins' death was intensified by the venality of its alleged motive. According to police, the suspects are members of F.T.S. (an abbreviated obscenity), a Queens youth gang that requires its members to commit a mugging as an initiation rite. They were reportedly trying to raise cash to finance an evening of frolicking at Roseland, a nearby dance hall, where six suspects were arrested. Two others were rounded up later...
...global Neighborhood Watch had better develop -- at least to counter this particular bogeyman. As extraordinary as the harmony of world reaction was, the circumstances that created it were equally improbable. It is not often that the world produces a dictator who so blatantly disregards the laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied to the health of the Western economies. And it is more unusual still that the aggressor rules an all but landlocked...