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When the government put a $400,000 bounty on his head, Escobar countered by offering $500 to $2,000 for each policeman killed in Medellin; so far this year, 140 lawmen in the city have died. Those who dare cross him also pay dearly: the bodies of several subordinates suspected of betrayal have turned up in recent months...
...their grievances sound like the complaints of American blacks, and sometimes Israel gives off something of the Old South, of race hate and sheer meanness. The other evening on Salah el-Din Street in East Jerusalem, a middle-aged man in a business suit was stopped by a beefy policeman who addressed him in Arabic: "Ya, walid ((Hey, boy))!" The policeman took the Palestinian's left hand and twisted it back slowly, painfully, saying softly all the while in Arabic, "You do intifadeh, boy? I think you're intifadeh...
...member of the Presidential Council as well as a minister, Bakatin, 53, is the country's chief policeman. Though he was trained as a civil engineer, he is in charge of combatting crime, corruption and ethnic violence, all of which he handles well enough to earn praise from conservatives and liberals alike. He is businesslike but personable, articulate, impressive on television. Conservative Supreme Soviet Deputies offered to nominate him for President in the election last March. He declined, but next time he might not, especially if Gorbachev is not a candidate then...
Another gold coast lies 3,000 miles away, in Orange County, Calif. Joseph Wambaugh makes it the backdrop for The Golden Orange (Morrow; 317 pages; $19.95), his tale of high rollers on the sunstruck expanses of Newport Beach. Former policeman Winnie Farlowe pilots a ferry and works at his favorite hobby, drinking. One day he slams his boat into a yacht. The accident introduces him to a much divorced lady with money, looks and a conniving mind. Before Winnie's head clears, he is being set up for a scam that involves betrayal and homicide. In The Blue Knight...
...among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched a ride. He sat inches from our costumed journalists for a half-hour trip that seemed like an eternity. "He didn't suspect a thing," says Nachtwey. "Otherwise we would have gone to jail...