Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for "extremely imprudent" dealings with Lockheed. The prince, who served as Inspector General of the Dutch armed forces, will keep his ermine, but he has lost his epaulets. The stunned nation has lost something more-its cherished trust in royal rectitude...
...task of the police in 1976 is almost impossible," says Inspector General Shaul Rosolio, 53, a lifelong cop with the build of an ironworker who heads Israel's 17,000-officer national police force. Rosolio toils in that meager patch of the possible, searching for more effective ways of beating back a rising tide of crime. Israel's growing cities now provide the anonymity so useful to criminals. Raging inflation has widened the gap between rich and poor, leaving some Israelis ready to steal their share of the new affluence. Worse, more and more citizens, long schooled...
...police are now involved in all societal diseases, and we are expected to find a magic cure," says Rosolio, who was visiting the U.S. to address a meeting of the National District Attorneys Association in Colorado on crime and terrorism. The inspector general has no magic up his sleeve, just innovative police methods to block what he calls "sophisticated, modern crime." Since taking over as chief of Israel's police force in 1972, Rosolio, a British-accented Sabra whose donnish manner masks a tough law enforcer, has added 5,000 men and women to the force. Though some gripe...
Dorith Ortal, a high school inspector for the Ministry of Education in Tel Aviv, was impressed by the relaxed atmosphere in American schools, particularly in the open classrooms the group visited in Brookline. "To have 200 kids in an open space, each of them studying something different, would be impossible in Israel. Israelis are always sticking their nose into each other's business." She laughs. "Perhaps we need Lebensraum...
...earn money to attend Macalester College in St. Paul, Mondale worked as a pea-aphid inspector for the Green Giant company in the town of Blue Earth. It was at Macalester that Mondale first got involved with Hubert Humphrey and set his career on the course that was to carry him to the vice-presidential nomination...