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...police commissioner in Detroit. Looking more like a college professor than a cop, he has a B.A. in social studies and a master's degree in public administration. For all his experience and training, he is appalled by the extent of the corruption. "There has been a total breakdown of discipline," he says. "When I was a cop in New York, narcotics payments were anathema. Oh, you'd hear talk of it in the locker room, but it was scorned." Today, many cops are just as willing to take "dirty" money from drugs as they are to receive...
...irrigation water well below cost while Los Angeles-area homeowners pay a disproportionately high share of the bill. Also, the report said, unwanted housing developments are going up on good farm land. It concluded that nothing short of convening federal and state grand juries to look into the "mass breakdown in law" could right the extravagant wrongs being done to California...
Curiouser and curiouser, this book A History of the Modern Age (Doubleday; $7.95), which will be published next week. It is billed as the work of one Julian K. Prescott, a former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who suffered a nervous breakdown in 1964 and died four years later, leaving his unfinished manuscript to his old friend Professor Neal F. Morrison for publication...
...priests. Brazil (4.5%) and Argentina (3.2%) outpaced both Canada (2.6%) and the U.S. (2%). In Europe, Holland had the highest percentage (5.9%), Spain a surprising 2.3%, Italy 1.5% and even Ireland 1.3%. The Vatican study analyzed the formal reasons the priests gave for their departure: the breakdown revealed that a growing number of priests are now leaving because of identity crises and for ideological reasons. The percentage who leave simply to marry is decreasing...
...press conference in Khartoum and described the treatment he had received when he was held by the rebels during the coup. "It was reprehensible," he said. "I went to the toilet only once in four days when I absolutely insisted on it." Then Numeiry put the onus for any breakdown in relations on the Russians. "If they want to choose that path, we will have no alternative," Numeiry said-which could mean he may beat the Russians to the punch by expelling the advisers before the Kremlin could order them to return home...