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- 4431: Capital Punishment
- ... was that 24-year-old Jeremy T Charron; an Epsom New Hampshire police officer was gunned down in cold blood just hours before Miller's sermon on forgiving murderers. That Sunday marked Charron's 44th day as a full time police officer, the job he dreamed of since he was 6 years old. Jeremy Charron leaves behind his parents, two sets of grandparents, two sisters, two brothers, a wide circle of ... overhead. The following chart shows statistics of the number of executions per state for the 1997 year. Currently there are only 12 states without the death penalty. Those states are Hawaii, Alaska, West Virginia, Washington D.C., Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota. The U.S. has over 1.5 million incarcerated in prisons, by far the largest system in the world, and that does ...
- 4432: Should Government Spend or Reduce Money to Stop Drug Abuse?
- ... everyone, especially the youths. Tell and Teach them using drug will change everything in their life and make their health unworthy. However, people with drug problems in the United States are very important. If one day, government do not spend money on the drug abuse anymore, then the society will increase Emergency room need and other medical costs, HIV/AIDS increased, criminal activity, lost productivity also will caused by drug use ... profit: the drug warÕs hidden economic agenda. University of Chicago Law Review. Winter 1998 v65 n1 p35-114. http://web7.searchbank.com/itw/session/539/793/864533w6/39!xrn_28_0_A20396004&bkm_39_28 d) President Bill Clinton, (Transcript). Message to the Congress transmitting the 1997 National Drug Control Strategy. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. March 3, 1997 v33 n9 p244(3). http://web7.searchbank.com/itw/session/539/793 ...
- 4433: An Indian Woman In Guatemala: Without A Trace Of Bitterness In Her Voice
- ... and the workers, along with their children and animals, would ride together, in filthy and overcrowded conditions. Each lorry would hold approximately forty people, and the trip to the finca took two nights and one day, with no stops allowed for the bathroom, it is easy to imagine the unsanitary condition that resulted. Each worker would take with them a cup and a plate and a bottle for water when they ... the government. Three months after getting out of prison, her father was "tortured and abandoned-They had torn off the hair on his head on one side. His skin was cut all over and they'd broken so many of his bones that he couldn't walk, lift himself or move a single finger." (Menchu 112) When her father was arrested the second time, he was considered a political prisoner. This ...
- 4434: Agencies of the United States
- ... and present operations, and talk about some of their tools of the trade. Origin of the CIA and KGB The CIA was a direct result of American intelligence operations during World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the need to coordinate intelligence to protect the interests of the United States. In 1941, he appointed William J. Donovan to the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) with headquarters in ... detection for such a long time and the vast amounts of information gathered. "We'll never be able to match that one. Those flights were intelligence work on a mass production basis." On the fateful day of May 1, 1960, Gary Powers was sent up in his U-2 over the Soviet Union from the United States Air Force Base at Peshawar, Pakistan. His mission was to photograph areas of military ...
- 4435: The Bill of Rights
- ... PEACEABLE ASSEMBLY: In Alexandria, Virginia, there is a law that prohibits people from loitering for more than seven minutes and exchanging small objects. Punishment is two years in jail. Consider the scene in jail: "What'd you do?" "I was waiting at a bus stop and gave a guy a cigarette." This is not an impossible occurrence: In Pittsburgh, Eugene Tyler, 15, has been ordered away from bus stops by police ... in the Bill of Rights. Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. EXCESSIVE BAIL AND FINES: Tallahatchie County in Mississippi charges ten dollars a day to each person who spends time in the jail, regardless of the length of stay or the outcome of their trial. This means innocent people are forced to pay. Marvin Willis was stuck in jail ...
- 4436: 1996: A Turbulent Year for Israel
- ... Rift widening quickly between Israel and Jordan) Hussein attended a luncheon with Netanyahu, Clinton, and Arafat saying, "What you need sir, is not the arrogance of power but the vision that Rabin had... Maybe one day you will have it." Israeli-Syrian relations also were greatly strained. Syrian peace talks have been greatly strained since the May terrorist attacks. As a precondition for opening up peace talks Syria is demanding the ... On the lighter side there has been a dramatic increase in the UFO sightings over the Israeli skies. Skeptics say, "Israelis are simply being swept away by the U.S. pop culture." The movie Independence day and the series X-Files are big hits in Israel. A recent Israeli pole finds that one in every two people believe in Aliens. Intellectually there has been little change in Israel. One Palestine city ... The technology's founder says he estimates to have 3,000 clients a year from now hooked up to the internet. Religiously there has been many developments in Israel. On September 22 Israel marked a day of atonement, Yom Kippur. Yasser Arafat called Netanyahu to wish him a happy New Year. On Christmas eve thousands of pilgrims filled Bethlehem's 1,600 year old church to celebrate Christmas. At the ...
- 4437: The Equal Rights Amendment
- ... The proposed amendment also failed in following sessions until 1972, when it won a majority vote in Congress. The main objectives of the women's movement included equal pay for equal work, federal support for day-care centers, recognition of lesbian rights, continued legalization of abortion, and the focus of serious attention on the problems of rape, wife and child beating, and discrimination against older and minority women. The ERA would ... Mommy to War!" Many felt that if a woman went into to war, they were considered to be women-who-want-to-be-men - anomalous persons who rejected the kind of life that nature (G-d and sex) had ordained. In the January 1983 issue of Ms. magazine, Gloria Steinem and her coeditors argued that the ERA failed for three reasons: 1) too many people, both men and women, dislike women ...
- 4438: Watergate: Was The Nixon White House Involved?
- ... forestall the damaging of his agenda by incumbents urged him toward the development of what was, in effect, a “secret government” (Gettlin and Colodny 6). The word, “Watergate”, refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. In addition to the hotel, the Watergate complex houses many business offices. It was here that the offices of the Democratic National Committee were burglarizedon June 17, 1972. Five individuals were arrested at the ... Saturday, October 20, 1973, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Cox. Richardson refused and resigned instead, as did Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Ultimately, the solicitor general dismissed Cox. The actions on this day were classified as the “Saturday night massacre.” Public protests and suggestions from his political advisors forced Nixon to turn over the tapes to Sirica. Certain subpoenaed conversations were deficient, and one tape had a mysterious ...
- 4439: The Role of Decision Making in the Pre-Crisis Period of India (15 March, 1959 - 7 September, 1962)
- ... the successful communist revolution in China added new feeling to the political palette of China. Thus he perceived it as a "mixture of bitterness, elation and vaunting confidence to which the traditional xenophobia and present day isolation from outside contacts have added suspicion of the motives of other powers" (Brecher, 1959). For two years he elaborated on these points, when describing China as on object of study by India's Intelligence ... to intervene in the affairs of the non-Western world" (Langyel, 1962). Due to that he considered not China, but Pakistan to be the main threat to India's security. For Pakistan, after independence, ha d become tied up to the new American imperialist system through a treaty and the acceptance of military aid. As an American client Pakistan weakened the area of peace and served the instrument with which imperialism ...
- 4440: Loss of Freedom Through Apathy
- ... spending a minute answering questions about the future of politics did not seem like too much to ask at all. Yet it continued. "Hello I'm calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I'd like to ask a few questions." "I'm sorry I'm really busy right now. I can't talk." *click "Hello I'm calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I'd like to ask a few questions." "Not interested" *click "Hello I'm calling on behalf of your congressman Bob Toricelli. I'd like to ask a few questions." "I'm tired of hearing about this election." *click If I was calling from a telephone company or some other corporate monster disturbing people with their propaganda, I ...
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