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It was his eyes. She was flipping through a newspaper, and suddenly his eyes were staring at her from a police photograph in the crime pages. Even before she read the headline, she felt shock. Then nausea. "The way he came at me with that knife, I can't forget those eyes," she said, recalling the stranger who climbed through her Manhattan apartment window one night in late 1972 and raped her. The man's photograph, published last April, brought it all back in an instant for Stefanie Aubry, the victim. It brought back her agonizing decision to submit silently so he...

HOUSTON Houston Mayor Bill White says federal money should fund a six and a-half (M) million dollar task force to target a rise in post-hurricane crime. White says Houston police face additional demands after an influx of hurricane evacuees following Katrina. The hurricane slammed the Gulf Coast on August 29th. White says Houston's homicide rate rose nearly 25 percent since last year and jumped 70 percent this month. White says Houston's crime increase isn't solely blamed on Katrina evacuees. But White says the Federal Emergency Management Agency should fund the task force because of the strain of those additional residents....