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...Then someone came up and said he knew me, although I didn't know him. I thought he might save me, but he turned out to be the one who destroyed me. He said, "I know you. You're a teacher, and you have a friend who is a policeman." They asked me where he was, and when I said I didn't know, they told me they were going to kill me. One of them was instructed to kill me, but he refused. He said he had never killed anyone. They pulled the gun from his hands and started...
...takers, but there was nothing fake about the purpose. With the school's cooperation, the grim 6-hr. exercise was an opportunity for police and school officials to sharpen their response in an emergency. "You prepare for the worst and hope for the best," says David Robinette, a Greensboro policeman who is beginning his fifth year as Grimsley's school-resource officer...
Sergei Stepashin is in it again. When the former secret policeman was made Prime Minister of Russia back in May, he wasn?t supposed to have much to do except cover Boris Yeltsin?s ample backside and make the usual feeble attempts at halting Russia?s economic dissolution. Suddenly he?s got a war to win, and it?s a war that Stepashin has lost before. In Dagestani, a provivce that borders on Chechnya in Russia?s mountainous (and mostly Muslim) north Caucasus region, a rebel force is trying to join its Chechen neighbors in achieving a de facto independence...
Davila knew he had a cultural clash on his hands when he took a call from a resident complaining that the next-door neighbor was growing corn in the front yard. New immigrants, Davila says, are "suspicious of cops. In Mexico most of a policeman's salary is from bribes. They think we're going to beat them up or take their money." It doesn't help that while Hispanics make up more than 28% of the 1.2 million residents of Phoenix, they account for only 12% of the city's police...
...boasted that he had four columns of soldiers marching on Madrid plus an invisible fifth column of supporters within the civilian community. George Orwell, who fought as a volunteer on the other side of that war, wrote in 1941, "Objectively, whoever is not on the side of the policeman is on the side of the criminal," and therefore Britons who opposed fighting the Germans (on pacifist grounds) were "objectively...pro-Nazi." But by 1944 Orwell had changed his mind and declared that to accuse dissenters of supporting the other side is "dishonest" because it "disregard[s] people's motives...