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...question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear, and no one will ever know what happened"; and his friend's indistinct last words as officers shoved Biko and Jones into separate cars, something like, "I'll be seeing...
...Hungary are expected to start formal negotiations with NATO. Enlarging NATO is also a priority for Senator William Cohen, who was confirmed Wednesday to head the Pentagon. The former Republican congressman told his colleagues in an equally amicable confirmation hearing that the U.S. cannot be "the world's policeman" and should limit its commitment in Bosnia. Instead he called for turning attention to Asia: "Our interests are potentially jeopardized by the danger of instability and rivalry among major regional powers...
...Dayton's department store the day after Thanksgiving--opening bell of the Christmas shopping season--he offered to snitch on the Dicks. Once, he said, he enjoyed such a close relationship with them that they bailed him out of jail. But now he professed embitterment at lowball paybacks. One policeman admitted, "I was a little surprised that he was giving up a source of his income." But when Thomas, dialing from memory, called the Dick residence with the offer of merchandise, say official reports, he was invited right over...
FOREIGN POLICY Said in his State of the Union address that the U.S. cannot be the world's policeman but can and should be the world's peacemaker. Deployed troops in Bosnia to enforce peace and in Haiti to return a President to power, and has worked to broker peace in the Middle East...
...over to the nurse's station where a withered old man is trying to convince anyone who will listen that he's healthy enough to drive himself home. I'm waiting outside as Bob and others try to convince the old man to go to the hospital when a policeman approaches me. "He'd be crazy not to go," he informs me. "He's got to go," I concur, but the cop becomes defensive. "I can't make him go," he retorts. The cop thinks I've started an argument about the coercive power of the police. "Of course...