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...Harvard policeman remained in stable condition at Mt. Auburn hospital last night, recovering from injuries he suffered when a car hit the motorcycle he was riding and threw him more than 30 feet early Monday morning...
...trouble, said Policeman Bruce Barber, was that the perpetrator was only 2 ft. 6 in. tall and so "didn't attract any attention" when she sidled up to the Brinks guard's money bag. While the guard was distracted signing receipts in a cafeteria at Los Angeles International Airport, the tiny girl reached into the bag and pulled out a bundle of cash totaling $8,300. She then toddled back to her nearby parents and handed it to her father. An alert cashier who ! happened to see the exchange rushed over to George Arias, 36, and his wife Joanna...
...strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos he has caused, has already left the building and delivered a Rambo-gram, a terse but humorous message, to a lawyer across the street...
...steep green slopes of the park, a wooded no- man's-land that even policemen hesitate to enter. It was on the eastern edge of the park one rainy night last month that Edmund Perry, 17, was shot to death during an alleged attack on a young policeman. The younger of two sons of a black working-class Harlem family, Perry had just graduated with honors from exclusive, mostly white Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, which he attended on a scholarship, and was set to enter Stanford University in the fall...
That issue and countless other questions may never be answered to anyone's satisfaction. But according to police, 23 witnesses have come forward to support Van Houten's version of events. A plainclothes policeman, Van Houten was patrolling the perimeter of the park that night, hoping to catch some of the thieves who had been breaking into the cars of doctors from nearby St. Luke's hospital. As Van Houten recounts it, he approached the hospital on the dark side of the street and was attacked from behind by Edmund Perry and an accomplice, who threw him to the ground...