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...heaviness in the air surely helps explain the remarkable good humor and even enjoyment of the streaking phenomenon manifested by school authorities, lawmen and the public.With few exceptions, hardly a bluenose is out of joint. Indeed, the only groups that streaking really threatens are nudists and Peeping Toms-it deprives both of their raison d'étre. More ponderous analyses are already droning forth: the sexual revolution is responsible; folks are simply grateful that students are no longer rioting or building bombs. But the best explanation may be as simple as the relief afforded by a good belly laugh...
Most real-life lawmen, however, find that TV crime shows bear little relation to reality. "Take a recent episode of Streets of San Francisco, " says San Francisco Private Investigator Harold Lipset. "Karl Maiden and his partner drive right up to a suspect's house and park in front. While they are inside, the suspect drives up, sees the car and gets away. Obviously you wouldn't do something like that." Even more often, says TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, himself an ex-policeman, TV cops "go to every call with squad lights flashing and sirens screaming." That, he says...
Then the scene that had taken place at the Giglottos' home was re-enacted, though less violently. Still, the agents broke through a side door that had been nailed shut. Mrs. Askew fainted. After a search and interrogation, the lawmen again realized that they had made "a mistake." Askew asked them to wait for the police, but the leader retorted, "We can't. We got four other places to go tonight." They left with no further explanations...
Late last week, there were reports that hundreds of AIM supporters were heading toward Wounded Knee from five states. Indians and lawmen traded shots for the first time since the takeover. No one was injured, but the flare-up strained a tense situation...
Neither side recognized the other's laws, or lawmen. Christians claimed that the Philippine Constabulary, which includes some Moslems, favored the rebels; Moslems maintained that the all-Christian army made common cause with the llagas. When the soldiers came searching for guns, the Moslems fought back fiercely. During one battle on Jolo Island last month, the military used jet planes against the rebels...