The Justice Department looked at the 7.7 million violent crimes committed each year where victims can tell whether attackers used alcohol, drugs or both. Thirty seven percent thought their attackers were using alcohol, or alcohol with drugs. And alcohol is an even bigger factor in domestic violence. Victims of those attacks cite it as a factor in two thirds of them. They have charged three people with the murder and kidnapping in the killings last week on the city's North Side.
Police say the woman who allegedly plotted the murders had been faking a pregnancy.
They say she spotted a mother and her children and followed them to their home. The killings were not discovered for several days. The children were found unharmed Friday in Chicago, after a search that reached to California and Mexico. A source close to a Swiss-appointed historical commission also told the magazine that a forthcoming report found commercial banks also were aware they were financing the war, but less so. But the head of that commission says the study won't be much help to Holocaust victims and heirs trying to include the central talks to negotiate a global settlement.