Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that would at least justify the staggering costs. Without a national strategy, Weinberger cannot know if, say, the Navy will need 600 ships by 1990 or if the Air Force is asking for the right mix of expensive F-15s and cheaper F-16s. Even a hard-liner like Melvin Laird, who served as Secretary of Defense for Richard Nixon, questions the sense behind the vast sums. "The Navy is going wild by making all these commitments on ships," Laird says. "It hasn't been proved to me that you need a Navy that large...
...Melvin Maddocks...
Last New Year's Eve. the national and local news reported the death of a New Jersey Angel named Frank Melvin, a 26-year-old Black man. In a tragic incident, Melvin and a group of Angels arrived at the scene of a burglary at the same time as two Newark policemen. One officer was on the roof of the burglarized building when he saw Melvin below, running toward his partner; he misinterpreted the Angel's intentions as threatening, shouted warnings, and then fired one shot through Melvin's chest. In truth, Melvin had tried to unzip his jacket...
...watchdog organizations like the National Black United Front contend, Black men have often been killed by police while reaching into their pockets for identification, or, in one case, a Bible. Arrest situations are tense affairs: officers have accidentally shot each other in moments of confusion. But incidents like the Melvin killing will only repeat themselves if, as Sliwa hopes, we all get into the habit of automatically labelling "them" as "punks...
...Melvin Maddocks...