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...only thing they haven't done yet is eat the dead." So said a Belfast policeman last week, shortly before Ulstermen went to the polls in Northern Ireland to choose members of a provincial Assembly for the first time in four years. The voters were vividly reminded that sectarian enmity forces them to live in an armed camp. In expectation of an outbreak of terrorism, all leaves for policemen were canceled...
...Cermak Memorial Hospital, a 111-bed facility serving the Cook County correctional system in Illinois, a prisoner with a policeman's bullet in his buttock waited three hours for treatment...
Harold Murphy, secretary-treasurer of the Policeman's Association, said Friday that his group had called off the picket because Corcoran had agreed to abide by the results of a fact-finding committee set up to investigate tenets of the new contract. Corcoran had previously refused to admit the results of the committee...
...purveyors of obvious pornography be prosecuted if they make a reasonable effort to exclude juveniles and to forewarn any adults who might be offended? When a Los Angeles plain-clothes policeman walked into a store and asked about "sexy books," the store's proprietor, Murray Kaplan, answered: "All our books are sexy." Kaplan was duly arrested and convicted for selling the policeman a book that "in vulgar, gutter language ... instructed on an act of oral copulation." Kaplan and the defendants in two similar cases (another bookstore, a movie theater proclaiming ADULTS ONLY) argue that if an adult is permitted...
...Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, who was responsible for Spain's diplomatic recognition of East Germany and China, and Justice Minister Tomas Garicano Gofti, who evidently fell from favor when he ordered police not to use firearms during this year's May Day demonstrations. One policeman died in ambush, triggering a later protest by Spanish police...