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Because his first priority is "safety, safety and safety," Riordan said, he plans to beef up the 7,800-member police force immediately with overtime pay, the transfer of desk officers to patrol, and more reservists. The 3,000 additional officers he has promised later will be paid for by streamlining other city departments, leasing the airport and privatizing some services. No new taxes, he vows, because Los Angeles "has already taxed itself out of the competition for new business...
Among his experience in Vietnam was an encounter with a patrol of Viet Cong soldiers at a pagoda on the Mekong River...
...awful thing since the Holocaust. But then when it's time to make a real commitment of blood and treasure, it turns out we're ready to spend all of 2 cents on it. So this week the President talks about protecting Macedonia and he supports a U.N. border patrol to monitor Serbia's promise to cut off supplies to their Bosnian Serb brothers, which we already know is bogus, since fuel trucks have been passing the checkpoints without trouble. Next week after a few more editorials slam us for diddling around, we'll probably hear about the possibility...
...supposed to tame these warlords enough to make possible the formation of some sort of national government. The alternatives are grim: a kind of permanent U.N. protectorate over Somalia, as in Cyprus, where U.N. troops still patrol almost 30 years after going in to preserve a truce; or Somalia's relapse into chaos, anarchy, famine and mass death. Says Patrick Vercammen, the U.N. humanitarian official in the town of Baidoa: "The Americans could have done 10 times more than they have done. Fifty times. They thump on their chests, but the biggest part...
Sally is arrested for murdering a white man, perhaps a lover, perhaps a rapist, with a carving knife (once, Erickson has it, she had tried to stab Jefferson). The cops have a patrol car and a radio, so this is the 20th century. Sally is, or is not, somewhere else, someone else. A huge black cop, Wade, searches obsessively for Mona, a woman he met years ago at a strip joint called the Fleurs d'X. She may be Sally or a daughter, or not. The city is Aeonopolis, and it could be San Francisco, much decayed, if San Francisco...