Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime-prone segment of the population?poor urban youths aged 15 to 24?will increase disproportionately at least until 1975. Sheer demography adds a racial factor: half the nation's blacks are under 21. Though victims of black crime are overwhelmingly black, it is chiefly young black males who commit the most common interracial crime: armed robbery...
...only 12% lead to arrests, only 6% to convictions and only 1% to prison. Thus, in the U.S. today, the chances of being punished for a serious crime are three in 100. Moreover, one-third of the inmates released from the nation's so-called correctional system later commit other...
...Cooper-Church amendment-a move to limit the President's power to commit American troops in Indo-China-lost its first test in the House yesterday by a vote...
...word, if the NLF, the Pathet Lao and the Red Khmers continue to make it difficult for the U. S. to commit genocide on the peoples of their countries, then Nixon will respond by committing it on North Vietnam...
...June 8, 1967, on charges of carrying a gun in a state building during a Panther demonstration at the California Statehouse in Sacramento against a proposed gun-control law being debated in the Legislature (he was later given three years probation): on Feb. 25, 1967, for conspiracy to commit murder (charges were later dropped): once, in 1968, on conspiracy charges connected with the 1968 Chicago demonstrations (the case was declared a mistrial but Seale was given four years for contempt of court); and finally, on August 19, for murder, kidnapping, unlawful flight to avoid prosecution...