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Your story on Jailhouse Lawyer Richard Owen [Sept. 21] makes the criminal a hero. We give praise to Mr. Owen for his fine accomplishments, which came about because he shot a policeman who was performing his duty...
...praise of Hill Street Blues is by far the best analysis of the series I have read, yet Corliss misses the point of the relationship between Captain Francis Furillo and Joyce Davenport. Joyce is not only Frank's girlfriend, but a defense attorney. The question of whether a policeman should have a personal relationship with someone on the other side of a case is raised each time the two meet. To call Joyce "Frank's elegant girlfriend" is an injustice to her role. Mark L. Curelop Brockton, Mass...
...next day. Evoking memories of the icy rhetoric of the cold war, the Soviet minister caustically attacked U.S. policies around the globe, including its "imperialist interference" in El Salvador. He charged that the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, designed for quick military action around the world, was "nothing but a policeman's billy club." Noting the contrast between Haig's blandness and Gromyko's bellicosity, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson quipped that the talks had been given by "Mr. Haig and General Gromyko...
There is no longer any reason to treat the letter-writing doctors any less severely than a policeman implicated in organized crime or a politician tainted by corruption. The letter-writing doctors--along with their friend Hussain--should be expelled permanently from the medical and academic communities...
...strongest and most quirky elements in a jury's thinking is often racial antagonism. In Washington, D.C., where 80% of the jurors are black, one white juror recalls a trial in which a white policeman was accused of hitting a black. Says she: "When we went into the jury room, the seven blacks sat on one side of the table, and the five whites sat on the other. The blacks just smoked cigarettes and glared at us until we voted against the policeman...