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...ASWAN WAS ALREADY TENSE following the murder of two policemen. Then, acting on a tip that antigovernment militants were secretly assembling, security forces surrounded the city's al-Rahman Mosque. Gunfire suddenly pierced the night and continued for hours. When it was over, 14 had been killed, including a policeman. Eight coordinated raids in the Cairo area and one north of the capital produced more shoot-outs and more casualties: a total of 23 dead and 46 injured, the highest toll since the assassination of Anwar Sadat...
...rare contemporary example of that toughest of all TV genres, the anthology show. Each week features a different, unrelated story linked only by the downtown Manhattan setting and a couple of recurring secondary characters (Philip Bosco as the owner of a restaurant and Joe Morton as a policeman who frequents...
Self-destruction is virtually a civic preoccupation at Davis Inlet: when Partridge, 38, a former policeman from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arrived two years ago, he found himself involved in suicide intervention at a rate of four cases a month. "Every adult in the community has contemplated suicide," he says. "Every second person has attempted it in one form or another." Nearly one-quarter of the population tried in the past year alone. Partridge also found that 95% of the adult population suffer from alcoholism, and estimates that of 360 children, more than 10% are "problem sniffers" of gasoline...
...little more than a skirmish awarding drug dealers the decided victory. In a city where the policemen must use pistols to fend against semi-automatic machine guns, it's small wonder that crime has steadily risen. In fact, New York currently leads the nation in number of policeman shot this year...
...seems hard to find someone in Los Angeles who is not running for mayor. Among the 52 candidates who have filed for the race -- apparently the largest number in the city's history -- are a bus driver, a banker, two millionaires, a disabled veteran, a railroad worker, a retired policeman, a plumber and an actor-tax preparer. The leading contenders include city councilman Mike Woo, state assemblyman Richard Katz and lawyer Richard Riordan. The biggest problem: fitting all the names on the ballot, which comes in seven languages...