Word: theft
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...type of crime often fits the behavior that provoked it. Theft, for instance, is often stimulated by the victim's negligence, swindles by his greed, and blackmail by his guilt. Murder can be invited by belligerence: in 1969 a national study of bus drivers showed that three who were killed during robberies had vowed not to let "any punk kid" rob them, and had carried and tried to use guns in violation of company rules. In other cases, suicidal wishes have provoked murder-a phenomenon that the mother of Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Dwight Johnson may have recognized...
...Government has usually remained silent about the cancerous corruption that afflicts South Viet Nam today: the pilferage at the docks, the smuggling at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, and the large-scale theft and export of scrap metal. But Washington has reacted with anger and alarm to recent disclosures about the widespread use of heroin by American G.I.s (see THE NATION) and to charges that Vietnamese officials, high and low, are involved in the hard-drug traffic...
...first thief-taker to turn a profit in this trade; he was merely the most gifted. A proof of his talent was one of his creations known as the "Lost Property Office." Wild would approach a citizen from whom money or documents had been stolen (generally in a theft organized by Wild), and represent himself as a man whose crime-fighting had given him some knowledge of the underworld. Perhaps he could be of help. In a day or two-sometimes only a few hours-he would return with the suggestion that the citizen appear at a street-corner rendezvous...
Harvard police reported that they had no leads on suspects in the theft. Cambridge police said that their detectives are on the alert but have not been called into the case...
Stiles acknowledged that the latest theft was only one in a series of recent Straus Cup adventures. Several weeks ago, the trophy was defiled by an unknown assailant, who turned the Cup upside down and crowned it with a sign reading "Freak Power...