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...unhappy twist of fate, Melvin was shot to death by a policeman during the investigation of a breakin. Newark police call the shooting a tragic accident. Guardian Angel Founder Curtis Sliwa, 27, insists it was a "coldblooded killing." Contending that neither the police nor the local prosecutor could perform an impartial inquiry, Sliwa at week's end led his group on a march to Washington to demand federal intervention...
...even across town in Stella Maris they know all about the Crawfords. A girl in Stella Maris recalled how beautiful Patrick Crawford was?then blushes to think that she is flirting with the dead. Patrick was 15. He was very tall, wore his hair cut short and resembled a policeman. They say that is how he was shot by mistake. Dead too is Elizabeth's grandfather, who was run down by a car in what appeared to be a sectarian killing. And then there was Elizabeth's mother, killed mistakenly in a crossfire between the I.R.A. and the army...
...sophomore at California State University at Long Beach whom a campus policeman shot December 5 is planning to sue the officer and perhaps the university and state for up to $3 million...
...chance to display his sensationally rich baritone. Sneath is another gifted deadpan comic--at times, a shade too deadpan, perhaps. One wishes he would give his role just the smallest extra measure of hamming-up; as it is, he narrowly misses blending in with his force of policeman choristers altogether...
Those snapshots of life in South Florida are as accurate today as they were a generation ago. But they are being crowded out by some altogether different scenes, a collection of photos not found in any Chamber of Commerce travel brochure. Here is a picture of a policeman leaning over the body of a Miamian whose throat has been slit and wallet emptied. There is a sleek V-planed speedboat, stripped of galleys and bunks and loaded with a half-ton of marijuana, skimming across the waters of Biscayne Bay. Here are a handful of ragged Cuban refugees, living...