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EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS remain deaf to all this reasoning. They seem to prefer continued strong ties to the "hard-line" Arab states and favor leaving the role of "terrorism policeman" to the United States. But the time may come when Americans balk at this burden, and the time may also come when Europeans find themselves extremely vulnerable to more than just terrorism. Continued appeasement of men like Khadafy entails many risks, not the least of which is the strengthening of radical hands in the Arab balance of power...
...serial, which appeared this fall, follows the escapades of a former Boston policeman and war veteran-turned-private investigator...
...canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also hampering the investigation are a midget who hopes for intimate contact with large ladies...
That sentence sums up most of Schwarzenegger's life: intense activity combined with relaxation. He was born in Austria, in the city of Graz. His father was a policeman, his mother a hausfrau, and they instilled in him a strong ambition. By the time he was 15, he had decided he wanted to be a body builder, and hung pictures of a former Mr. Universe all around his room for inspiration. That former Mr. U., South African Reg Park, not only had muscles but money, and young Arnold wanted both. He created himself, pumping iron three or four hours...
Moloise had been convicted two years ago of murdering a black policeman. The victim, Warrant Officer Philippus Selepe, 52, was slain with an automatic weapon outside his home near Pretoria in 1982. Moloise at first confessed to the crime but later recanted, charging police coercion. Later he said he had been involved in planning the ambush, but only because he was afraid that his associates in the African National Congress would kill him if he did not cooperate. The A.N.C., for its part, has insisted that its guerrillas, not Moloise, committed the murder. Moloise was, however, a firm supporter...