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...Mass.) who conducted a similar investigation, Abourezk found at least $20 million in direct aid to police and prisons, with other "public safety support funds" probably hidden elsewhere in the budget. Over 250 Vietnamese policemen were to be trained this year in the United States--a small fraction of the 120,000 Vietnamese in the National Police, the largest South Vietnamese police agency, but a large increase over the 43 policemen trained in the United States the year before. In the meantime, Vietnamese continue to die in skirmishes between Saigon and NLF troops, and Vietnamese prisoners from the Saigon government...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Thieu's Prisons: Some POWs Can't Go Home | 10/10/1973 | See Source »

...learning microphone manners, he confessed that "I can't play every day anymore. It's not that you get tired, but your body just doesn't come back as fast as it did. You think you can swing the bat, but you're just a fraction off. The balls you used to hit out of the ballpark you're fouling off. I need more sleep now. Sometimes I'll lie down at 9 p.m. and sleep till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Henry Aaron's Golden Autumn | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...recent directory lists 259 Jesus communities and 49 newspapers in North America, but compilers claim that these are only a fraction of the Jesus groups. Many youths have blended into conventional churches or inconspicuous little house fellowships. Others have departed for rural areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Jesus Evolution | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...Most performers give just a fraction of themselves," Actress Geraldine Page told her after a concert. "I can't remember the last time I saw one who gave everything they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Alone with the Blues | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...fact, Houston police records show, about 280 juveniles are reported missing every year from the Heights section, just a small fraction of the thousands of runaways reported in the city every year. David Hilligiest, believed to be one of the still-unidentified victims, has been missing-and the object of an agonizing search by his parents-for more than two years. "We're hanging on the thread that our son is still alive," says Fred Hilligiest. Of the 5,228 juveniles who took off last year, the police say, only 424, or 8%, remain unaccounted for today, despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Runaways: A National Problem | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

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