Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, it ran farms, dealt in antiques and trafficked in drugs. But perhaps its biggest racket was protection. If the bribe was right, UDBA could hush up crimes or fix sentences for defendants facing stiff penalties. In fact, UDBA was not above framing...
...equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope, a tracer pistol, flares, food, water, a raft and a desalting kit. The key gadget is a small mercury-battery radio that is both a voice transceiver and a beeper providing a radio fix for search and rescue planes to home...
...just that. Impressed when he got near-instant service one night from a radio-dispatched plumber, he wondered why pipes should be better cared for than patients. His answer: radio-dispatched doctors as part of the "S O S" service that already was providing Paris with plumbers and other fix-it aid in response to phone calls...
...Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch a massive attack on the 101st the next night...
Inbau recommends the sympathetic pitch that anyone in the same fix "might have done the same thing," that the crime had a "morally acceptable motive." Also helpful: "Condemn the victim." With a rapist, for example, the detective should indignantly exclaim: "Joe, no woman should be on the street alone at night looking as sexy as she did. Even here today she's got on a low-cut dress that makes visible damn near all of her breasts. That's wrong...