Word: lawmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troopers and SWAT-team commandos staked out both facilities. The Pentagon dispatched an Army Special Operations Forces group to Atlanta. Yet no one was anxious to resort to force, remembering the lessons of the 1971 uprising at New York's Attica prison, where after four days of inconclusive talks lawmen stormed the facility and touched off a bloodbath in which 32 prisoners and eleven guards and other civilian personnel died. Experts on hostage situations have since tended to focus on negotiations, however protracted, as the best way of wearing down the other side. That seemed to be the stance...
Fort spoke directly to Libyan leaders. Though El Rukns never collected from Gaddafi or carried out any of its plots, it was well equipped to do so: on a raid of the gang's headquarters, lawmen found an arsenal that included an antitank device capable of downing an airplane or piercing 12-in.-thick steel plates...
...dream came true. The back door of a Wells Fargo truck lugging some $400,000 along route I-95 burst open and, suddenly, according to a highway patrolman, it "rained $20 bills." A massive traffic jam ensued as astounded motorists abandoned their vehicles to merrily chase the cash. When lawmen arrived and ordered the gleeful pursuers to return the loot, some complied. But all together, the money chasers carried with them what a Wells Fargo spokesman later called a "significant" amount of money...
...dissenters' pleas are answered in Pale Kings and Princes, a wry and rowdy tale of a Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most of the talk is badinage rather than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that...
...Army knows the deadly capability of viruses for biological warfare. That may be why military prosecutors are now among the first lawmen in the country to see the AIDS virus as a weapon and its willful transmission as a crime. At Fort Huachuca, Ariz., last week, Private First Class Adrian G. Morris Jr., a clerk-typist at the garrison headquarters, faced a court-martial on charges that include aggravated assault. Reason: Morris allegedly had sex with two soldiers, one male, one female, although he knew an Army screening had shown him to be an AIDS virus carrier...