Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share of vandalism, burglary and car thefts, in large part committed by tough Chicano gangs that mark their territory with special graffitti called placas. Yet in the past two years, there has been a remarkable change in the barrio. Reports Los Angeles Police Captain George Morrison: "Officers on foot patrol say that they notice an increase in community pride, a new awareness of self worth...
...eight fedayeen on the suicidal mission were dropped by a fishing smack, which was later captured by Israeli patrol ships outside Israel's territorial waters. The raiders grounded their boat near a sewage outlet on the edge of Tel Aviv. Unnoticed, they stepped ashore, armed with rapid-fire Kalashnikovs and high-explosive charges...
Within an hour, the arresting officers told the attending physician at a county hospital that Young had made his way out of the back of the patrol car (which had no door or window handles). In trying to escape, they said, Young had run into a fence and broken his neck. But Marshall County Coroner Osborne Bell found a bullet wound in Young's left armpit, and no evidence of a broken neck. When he confronted the police with his findings, they literally bolted from the hospital...
...real gentleman, just as congenial as he could be," reported California highway patrol Captain Otie Hunter, after Henry Ford II, 57, had been arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss, 35, a sometime model for the Ford Motor Co. (Ford's wife Cristina was off in Katmandu at the coronation of the King of Nepal.) When Ford flunked a roadside sobriety test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test...
...possession of liquor and an Army discharge for "behavioral disorders" after three AWOL incidents in seven months of service. He was with the state police from 1968 to 1972 and quit shortly after his squad-car windshield was apparently shot out from the inside when he was alone on patrol. His record also included the beating of a man he had arrested. After that, a brief stint as a tobacco salesman came and went amidst claims by his employers that a cache of cigarettes had mysteriously disappeared. Lawrence then managed to get a job as chief of the four...