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...police blotter in Cirta, a suburb of Carthage, a Roman police captain entered his report: "Raided five homes. Discovered, confiscated and destroyed 38 Christian scrolls...
...Blotter Squatter. In Nashville. Tenn., after Pauline Cox's 191st arrest for public drunkenness in eleven years, the local constabulary bowed to the inevitable, logged her address as ''Police Station' noted her rent to the city: more than $1,900 worth of fines and workhouse stints...
...also made the New York police blotter last week by getting in a scrape in front of Manhattan's Birdland jazz spot. According to the cops, Davis and fans were blocking the sidewalk, refused to heed an order to move on; in the scuffle Davis got blackjacked, was charged with assaulting a policeman, and had his performer's permit suspended...
...really calamitous happens to Fort Lauderdale or its student invaders. During his coffee break, one defender of the law was able, without looking very hard, to arrest five students for sousing in public. But last weekend, as police prepared to abandon their beach outpost until next season, their blotter listed few cases of more serious wrongdoing. The townspeople regard the invasion with edgy amusement; student-watching has become a local sport...
Instead, these U.S. soldiers on the Cold War beat-all Army careermen-put on just the kind of on-the-spot performance that made all the police-blotter calculations back home seem worthwhile. Said Army Major George Kemper into the Communist microphones: "They are holding us as political hostages. We are being used as tools." Other Army men shouted at the Communists: "You're kidnapers!" And when, in a quiet moment, the AP's Topping told the Army's Kemper that the U.S. was 1) demanding his men's release but was 2) refusing...