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Certainly it is not a streamlining of redundant, outdated criminal codes that we or others would oppose. Existing federal statues contain 70 separate provisions for theft, 79 different definitions of a criminal state of mind. Other federal crimes include interfering with the flight of Government carrier pigeons and seducing a passenger on a steamship...
...addition, the blue sky and open spaces that attracted the area's pioneers 25 years ago are now becoming obscured by industrial parks and a thin layer of smog. Crime is on the rise. The theft of computers and semiconductors has become an estimated $20 million-a-year problem. Housing is scarce and expensive. The price of an average home in Santa Clara County...
Smart was booked late yesterday in Cambridge jail on separate charges of falsely presenting himself to the University for the purpose of obtaining official documents, and of theft from the Coop. Arraignment will probably take place Tuesday, Morse said...
...instead the Bulletin stood pat while the Inquirer built a national reputation under Executive Editor Gene Roberts. Winning six consecutive Pulitzer Prizes, the Inquirer outfoxed, outspent and outclassed its rival. Roberts even managed to wrest away Doonesbury, the popular comic strip. Startled, a Bulletin editor huffed that the theft was "not gentlemanly." "We never particularly contended it was," Roberts replied. The Bulletin launched a morning edition in 1978, but by then the momentum had shifted decisively. When the Inquirer grabbed the circulation lead in 1980, the Bulletin was already listing badly. Says former Publisher William McLean III of Charter...
...burst into a conflagration of libidos, and the only firemen in sight are the seen-it-all plainclothesmen of the vice squad. They know every hooker they bust will be out on bail, back on her back within an hour and any felonious punk can plea-bargain grand-theft-auto down to a citation for speeding. The vice squad is not expected to put out the fire, just to keep it down to a dark smolder...