Word: klapp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most metropolitan police departments will bring in sharpshooters when hostages are involved, partly to keep less trained personnel out of the action. "All you need is one officer on the scene to fire randomly and it could be all over for the hostages," explains San Francisco Police Lieut. Richard Klapp, the city's top hostage expert...
...Frank O. Klapp...
...Sergeant David Lee Klapp bought the blandishments of those hip, upbeat re-enlistment posters and, as they say in the service, took a burst of six. When he arrived in Germany last year, however, Klapp found the contemporary Army was nowhere near as new as it cracked itself up to be. Said he: "The old ways were still enforced in Germany. There was the caste system, harassing treatment by superiors, unnecessary and unfair rigid inspections and a soldier's loss of his constitutional rights...
That may sound like barracks griping, but Klapp, a Viet Nam veteran, was in dead earnest. He charged the Army with false advertising and claimed he had a right to quit. Understandably miffed, the chain of command processed Klapp's papers as slowly as it well knows how. Yet Klapp persevered and won an honorable discharge, a full three years before his hitch...