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...tragic last act in a weird drama pitting police against crazed cultists. But as fresh details began to emerge about the bloody siege that left one policeman and seven blacks dead in Memphis two weeks ago, the judgment and conduct of police officials in handling the 30-hr. ordeal triggered a citywide debate and at least one federal probe. Said Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The police did not go into the house to apprehend, but to kill." Ray Maples, president of the Memphis Police Association, countered angrily: "I think [these critics...
...hr. press conference last week, Memphis police officials tried to bury any doubts about whether the raid had been handled properly, but the effect of their performance was quite the opposite. The most unnerving fact: five of the seven men died from gunshot wounds in the head. Six of the seven had been shot and killed in a single 9-ft. by 11-ft. bedroom. Afterward, only one gun was found. When asked how the aim of the TACT officers could be so accurate in a darkened house full of tear gas and smoke, Police Director John Holt explained that...
...been so tough." The implication lingers that it was Nixon's "toughness" during the crisis following the October 1973 Middle East War that caused U.S: diplomacy to succeed. Other examples abound of anecdotes apparently designed to point up that Nixon himself had the same sorts of qualities of leadership hr praises in others...
...regarded as frivolous when it was announced in January 1980, a "figurehead" move, as another female film executive described it at the time. A former math teacher (in the racially tense Watts district of Los Angeles), Max Factor model, actress (with John Wayne in Rio Lobo) and $5-an-hr. script reader, Lansing moved to Fox from Columbia, where she had risen quickly to senior vice president of production...
Gandhi. Richard Attenborough's 3-hr. 20-min. film is a historical epic on the grand scale, but one that touches the heart with its moral earnestness and the marvelous humanity of Ben Kingsley's performance in the title role...