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...Dewar's White Label Scotch -- he parachuted into Kuwait as an eyewitness to war's inferno and freedom's jubilation. He watched wide-eyed Kuwaiti women flirt with their liberators. He saw Marines reclaim the U.S. embassy. And he surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly familiar." Plus he nearly managed to blow himself up by peering into a booby-trapped box of rocket-propelled grenades on a hotel roof...
Occasional disputes divide the town. The argument about widening Highway 169 from two to four lanes where it passes through the business district sputtered on for 25 years. The staunchest supporter of the status quo was John Dreesman, millionaire farmer, a director of the Interstate Bank and a former city councilman who wore his bib overalls everywhere except to church. He and his wife Agnes had two extremely bright children whose horizons soon extended far beyond Iowa...
...separate case involving a similar principle, a federal judge held the city of Miami in contempt of court last week for destroying bedrolls, clothes and medicine belonging to homeless people living under a highway overpass. The city was ordered to pay $2,500 to a homeless shelter...
Each atrocity has its own circumstances, its own atmosphere and triggers, its tribal antipathies and peer-group expectations. It is interesting that the one police officer who expressed some objection during the Los Angeles beating was a woman -- a member of the California highway patrol, not the L.A.P.D. She was not entirely part of the men's club that was doing the pounding...
...Code, which prohibits one officer from ratting on another. A few encouraging signs exist that some officers are abandoning the tradition of blind loyalty to one another in misconduct cases. In Houston more than half of all complaints now come from other officers. During the King beating, two California highway-patrol officers reportedly took down the names of those involved from their breast-pocket name tags. They have since testified to investigators...