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...been about a 36% increase in pretrial detainees since the act was passed, from a daily average of 5,383 in 1984 to 7,328 last year, or about one-seventh of those in federal lockup. "It puts a burden on us to find jail space," says Georgia U.S. Marshal Lynn Duncan...
...Gorbachev, who returned to Moscow on Friday from East Berlin, where he and Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov had been attending a Warsaw Pact summit, acted decisively. The next day Gorbachev convened an emergency meeting of the Politburo in the Kremlin. After that session, the Politburo fired Sokolov, 75, and Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov, 63, who headed the nation's air- defense system. Sokolov was replaced as the top Soviet military leader by General of the Army Dmitri Yazov, 64, a former commander of the Far East military district who had recently been named Deputy Defense Minister for personnel...
...case of Donnie Wayne Snell, a motorcycle-gang enforcer wanted for shooting a Texas highway patrolman, Deputy Marshal Ed Stubbs used the Scorecard system to predict where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs...
...noose tightened, Kesselman headed for Oahu. But by then marshals there were keeping watch on half a dozen likely hideouts. They lucked into someone who remembered seeing the 6-ft. 4-in. blond at the Aloha Towers condo near Waikiki. The marshals staked out the lobby and grabbed Kesselman when he stepped off an elevator with a couple of women. "He was very surprised," says Deputy Marshal Gary Shuler, who made the collar. "If it hadn't been for WANT, there's no question that this guy would still be out there...
...times it resembled a rock concert more than a scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that number of seats set up in the ballroom; the rest either watched from outside on television monitors or, to the dismay of the local fire marshal, crowded the aisles. For nearly eight hours, until after 3 a.m., the assembled scientists listened intently to one five-minute presentation after another, often cheering the speakers enthusiastically. Many lingered until dawn, eagerly discussing what they had heard and seen...