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...chocolate-covered cherries in a refrigerated trailer. And that was how I came to be chatting with a man carrying a revolver in a pitch-black hallway in a Memphis Holiday Inn one August night, when all the power was out in a city with all its policemen and firemen out on strike...
...basement. O'Neil then ordered a crane to begin demolishing the house as warnings were shouted over a police loudspeaker for MOVE to surrender. More water was poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead; about 18 policemen and firemen injured, many of them seriously; two MOVE members injured; and three MOVE sympathizers...
...himself "anxiously ready" to negotiate ways to improve the productivity of government employees, even if that includes reducing their numbers by attrition. He is actively pushing laws to give most government workers a choice of submitting disputes to arbitration, rather than striking, and to make arbitration compulsory for cops, firemen and other public-safety workers. Instead of simply decrying the tax revolt, as Meany does, Wurf calls for reforms: cuts in property taxes for low-and middle-income homeowners, higher and more progressive state and local income taxes to reduce the revenue loss...
...mood has been bizarre all week long as the Presley fans arrive in a city that seems to be coming apart. Trash is lying in the streets because sanitation workers stay off for a day, honoring police picket lines. Most of the firemen are also out on strike, and both they and the police are ignoring court orders to return to work. The schools are scheduled to open later in the week, but the teachers say they will not cross any picket lines. The mayor has called out the National Guard, costing the city $70,000 a day. Armed with...
...cultists screamed obscenities and their children cried, police used a bulldozer to knock down a wooden barricade and a crane to knock out windows. Firemen pumped streams of water through a cellar window, sending rats, dogs and people scurrying to safety. Suddenly, shots rang out. Police lobbed tear gas and smoke bombs into the house. After 45 minutes, the MOVE members -twelve adults and eleven children-stumbled out. The toll: one policeman dead; seven policemen, five firemen, three MOVE members and three bystanders wounded...