Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Israeli National Police Force, which set up its own hypnosis unit in 1972, agrees. Its team of trained hypnotists has solved 25 cases and advanced the investigations in 60 more. When terrorists bombed the Nahariya-Haifa bus in 1973, police questioned the driver about suspicious passengers. He could not...
After weeks of gang terrorism that included killings, a near riot, robberies, pillaging and rape, Detroit's black mayor, Coleman Young, belatedly rushed back from vacation and vowed last week, "We will not tolerate lawlessness in the streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police...
Young's actions did little to boost police morale, which had sunk to a disastrously low level in the first place because of the mayor's earlier moves. Young won election in 1973 partly by campaigning against the alleged racist attitudes and "blackjack rule" of the cops. The...
When things went wrong, Sutton says, his pals would sell him out to the cops. Yet he never changed the method of operation that put him at the mercy of accomplices. He learned a bit about philosophy and a lot about law in prison libraries, and enough about literature to...
This time he focuses on the street-level cops in pursuit of the small-time robbers. Deke Hunter, 31, is a burly plainclothes detective who would much rather be starring for the Red Sox. "Most guys," he explains, "can't hit a major-league curve. Turned out, I was...