AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

NATION.(TO THE POINT)

Investor's Business Daily

| March 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

15,000 U.S. deaths tied to nukes

That many people probably died from radioactive fallout from Cold War nuclear weapon tests worldwide, said a government study reported by USA Today. The study suggested 20,000 nonfatal cancers among U.S. residents born after 1951 may be linked to test fallout.

Three New York police had their convictions overturned by a federal appeals court in the Abner Louima torture case. The ruling didn't affect the conviction of chief attacker Justin Volpe.

President Nixon raised the idea of using a nuclear bomb in 1972, a few weeks before ordering an escalation of the Vietnam War, newly released ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Ex-Cop Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Torturing Haitian Immigrant In New...
Magazine article from: Jet January 10, 2000 700+ words
...torturing a Haitian immigrant with a broken broomstick in one of the most shocking acts of police brutality New York has ever seen. Justin Volpe, 27, who pleaded guilty to violating the victim's civil rights, could have gotten life without parole...
GQ Exclusive: Justin Volpe Speaks; Former NYC Police Officer Justin Volpe and...
Press release article from: PR Newswire December 21, 2004 700+ words
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Former New York City police officer Justin Volpe committed one of the most heinous crimes in...first time, GQ writer Robert Draper details Justin Volpe's own account of the events that led up to...
Cover: Kate Bosworth Cleans Up Real Nice; Exclusive: Justin Volpe Speaks.
Press release article from: PR Newswire December 21, 2004 700+ words
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- GQ...EXCLUSIVE: "Say a Prayer for Justin Volpe," by Robert Draper, page 146 Former New York City police officer Justin Volpe committed one of the most heinous...
Justice for Louima.(police officer Justin Volpe pleads guilty in brutal assault...
Magazine article from: Newsweek Morganthau, Tom Beals, Gregory Murr, Andrew June 7, 1999 700+ words
...built officer named Justin Volpe shoved a broken-off...Louima at the hands of New York police was so obviously...Angeles, held hearings in New York last week. The Louima...Norman Siegel of the New York Civil Liberties Union...otherwise. Photo: Guilty: Justin ...
Police Must Be Held Accountable: After the New York brutality trials, one top...
Magazine article from: Newsweek June 21, 1999 700+ words
...son, Justin, a New York police officer...said. Now that New York's brutality trials...if this is war, Justin Volpe is no shellshocked...the law. To say Justin Volpe badly betrayed...not at any cost. New York columnist Jimmy...
Pretext stops and racial profiling after Whren v. United States: the New York...
Magazine article from: Albany Law Review Abramovsky, Abraham Edelstein, Jonathan I. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...public consciousness in New York and New Jersey. In New...State Parkway.(1) In New York, as well, incidents...Louima by Pohce Officer Justin Volpe,(2) and the police...traffic stops.(4) In New York, the Louima and Diallo...
There are more than a few bad cops in New York.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lewis, Claude August 25, 1997 700+ words
...Nearly three weeks ago in New York City, 30-year-old...year-old officer Justin Volpe allegedly used the handle...while serious crime in New York may have declined, serious...of police abuse cost New York more than $32 million...
The thin blue line. (New York City police brutality case)
Magazine article from: Newsweek Beals, Gregory Bai, Matt September 1, 1997 700+ words
...be stopped AS TWO OF NEW YORK'S Finest, Thomas Bruder...cop-25-year-old Justin Volpe-shoved the blunt end...the Louima incident, New York's cops were getting...exposed a darker side to New York's "zero tolerance...
For New York's minorities, healing begins slowly; Guilty verdict brings little...
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Scherer, Ron June 10, 1999 700+ words
...Yorkers. The streets of New York - especially in the neighborhoods...this case - in which two New York cops were convicted of...the attack that Officer Justin Volpe admitted to partway through...the challenge for the New York Police Department, the...
Former New York policeman pleads not guilty in torture case.
Magazine article from: Business Recorder April 4, 2002 700+ words
NEW YORK : Former New York police officer Charles Schwarz pleaded...racial tensions and demonstrations in New York. Louima now lives in Florida. Another police officer, Justin Volpe, confessed he tortured Louima and...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA