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...staff to follow through in collecting evidence. Getting witnesses to cooperate is a major problem. One of the ugliest open cases at the moment involves a twelve-year-old boy accused of stabbing an adult. The child is a "chicken," or male prostitute, and his victim was a "chicken hawk," his homosexual customer. After being wounded in his own bathtub, the man called police and signed a complaint. Stitched up and calmed down, he now wants to forget the whole thing. The boy remains free...
...Defense Minister, former Air Force Chief Ezer Weizman, 53, the hawkish nephew of Israel's first President, Chaim Weizmann. Ezer Weizman has frequently criticized the Labor Party for being too timid with the Arabs. Some Washington, and even Israeli, observers were pleased that ex-General Sharon, another outspoken hawk, had to settle for the Agriculture Ministry instead of the job he wanted: a Cabinet-level position in charge of antiterrorist activity. Dayan sits at Begin's right hand in the Knesset and is already mentioned as heir apparent to Begin, who was hospitalized with a heart attack last...
...Band effects. Favorite artists are Barry White, Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, the Silver Convention, Maynard Ferguson, Shalamar, Marvin Gaye, the Bee Gees, the Isley Brothers, Jerry Butler-as well as Sinatra, Como and Glenn Miller. They are cunningly selected by the all-important disco jockeys who keep a hawk's eye on the floor and choreograph the dancers by changing the pace and style of the records and tapes. Says Chicago Disco Jockey Paul Weisberg: "I look around and get a feeling for the mood, the age and the dress of the people...
Warren, who won fame and a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his novel "All the King's Men," as well as an unprecedented second Pulitzer in 1958 for "Promises," a collection of poems, delivered a lengthy work entitled "Red-Tailed Hawk and the Pyre of Youth...
Speaking in the soft nasal twang of his native Kentucky, Warren admitted that he wrote the poem as a response to a colleague's discussion of the frequent appearance of hawk-images in his poetry...