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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a few weeks of patrolling by the Red Berets (which the 13 are sometimes called), robberies and violence dropped on the Muggers' Express. Since then Sliwa has branched out. Every night the teams meet at Sliwa's McDonald's at 9 p.m., then head out in patrols of four. Though most members accepted into the Magnificent 13 have had some training in the martial arts, and some admit to carrying knives for protection when journeying alone at night, on patrol they have no weapons and even refused the walkie-talkie radios that the Transit Authority urged...
Wearing red berets as a badge of office, the original 13 went into action last Feb. 13, with three teams patrolling what is known as the Muggers' Express, the No. 4 IRT train from Woodlawn in The Bronx to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn "We stopped a mugging the first night a 167th and River Avenue," one patroller remembers. "We asked the conductor to signal ahead to the next station, where we handed the mugger over to the transit police." A week later, they suffered their first casualty...
...Saturday night on the Muggers' Express, with some of the cars awash in vomit, Lopez's patrol picked up a drunk who was hardly able to stand. He recognized them: "Hey, man, I seen you guys...
Among German Christians, even those who express doubts about Jesus' Resurrection, Lapide's ideas have been welcomed. Besides working on a third book, which is to deal with Jesus' Passion, Lapide has time to appear at religious conferences where he has been known to twit German liberal Christians about their lack of faith. The demythologizers of Easter, he says, are "sawing off the branch of faith upon which they are sitting...
...want to express my appreciation to everyone who has spoken. I'm sure this will not be the last time we will speak. But I very much appreciate the spirit in which the discussion has gone on, and the way in which we have tried to think together about how we will approach a horrible situation, instead of simply castigating one another simply because we take different approaches to a common end. Being six o'clock. I think we should adjoin the meeting, unless there is some urgent business to come before...