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...that Ethiopia was in fact an aggressor guilty of "black colonialism," "murder" and "massacres." Benin did not even bother to attend the summit because it blames Gabon for last January's attempted coup against Benin President Mathieu Kerekou. Hoping to cool tempers, Nigeria's head of state, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, observed that "intra-African quarrels now constitute a real threat to peace and harmony in our continent...
...Mexico border where, authorities said, "he may have disposed of bodies." At week's end, police had recovered twelve, and said that Kearney and Hill might be responsible in all for 28 or more killings, which would make the case the largest mass murder in American history. Says Lieut. Edward Douglas of the Los Angeles sheriffs department: "I don't know if we'll ever know the total, because some bodies may be beyond recovery...
...juveniles arrested for violent crimes were female. Last month Chicago police finally caught a gang of six girls, aged 14 to 17, after they had terrorized elderly people for months. Their latest crime: the brutal beating of a 68-year-old man. "I was amazed," says Police Lieut. Lawrence Forberg. "They were indignant toward their victims, and none of them shed any tears. This is the first time I've encountered young girls this tough...
...lawyer's?is to get the case thrown out on some legal technicality, and he often succeeds. In a San Francisco police squad room, the cops toss darts at an unusual board. Its rings are labeled: Investigate further, Admonish, Cite, and the bull's-eye is Complaint withdrawn. Police Lieut. George Rosko sums up the whole juvenile process: "It fosters the kid's belief that he can beat the system. He goes through the court, comes back to the neighborhood, and he's a hero...
...weeks, Rhodesia's Supreme Military Commander, Lieut. General Peter Walls, had been receiving intelligence reports of a guerrilla force building up in southwestern Mozambique. Faced with a security problem that would further extend his hard-pressed troops, Walls asked Smith for permission to make a punitive raid on Mozambique's Gaza province, a key infiltration and supply route. Smith readily gave him the go-ahead. Last week the first columns of Rhodesian army trucks, carrying some 500 troops, rolled across the Mozambican border shortly after daybreak and headed toward the village of Mapai, 60 miles away. Overhead, Rhodesian...