Word: alert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...geared for all contingencies. Police response is carefully adjusted, like a Herman Kahn scenario, to the size of the disturbance?enough force to smother trouble quickly, but not enough to provoke greater resentment. In each division, half the patrol cars are always tagged for response to special riot alert; if the cars of one division should prove inadequate to halt a disturbance, half the cars in the city can be on the move within minutes. If half the department still cannot keep control, nearly the entire uniformed force of 4,000 can be mobilized for duty. Los Angeles' basic formula...
...active law-enforcement duty. An elite team of 225, known as the "Top Group," has been organized for special assignments, such as nabbing organized car-theft rings or stickup artists. A "community radio watch," composed of cabbies and truck drivers who have two-way radios, is being formed to alert police to violations. Eventually, Reddin guesses, the radio watchers could add 60,000 pairs of eyes without any cost to the police-surveillance network. Another laborsaving device is a new $450,000 computer, financed by the Federal Government, that will not only cut down on paper work but also...
Hollow-Nosed Slugs. With Ethel by his side, Kennedy was taken first to nearby Central Receiving Hospital, where doctors could only keep him alive by cardiac massage and an injection of Adrenalin, and alert the better-equipped Good Samaritan Hospital to prepare for delicate brain surgery. As if there were not already enough grim echoes of Dallas and Parkland Hospital, the scene at Central Receiving was degraded by human perversity. A too-eager news photographer tried to barge in and got knocked to the floor by Bill Barry. A guard attempted to keep both a priest and Ethel away from...
...bespectacled Sneyd to join him in a back room for some "routine" questions. The interrogation was far from routine. Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions were confirmed: fingerprints proved that Sneyd was, in fact, Illinois-born James Earl Ray, 40, alias Eric Starve Gait, the escaped convict accused of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 in Memphis...
...meanwhile, had launched the biggest manhunt in its history (cost: $1,000,000), warning officials in Mexico and Canada, favorite hideaways in Ray's tawdry past, to be on the alert. Scotland Yard and Interpol joined the manhunt, and FBI liaison men traveled to Europe and Australia in search of their...