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...ordered Russia's military advisers to pack up and leave (see THE WORLD). In a sense, the U.S. could sympathize with Moscow. Presumably the Soviets, in suffering this diplomatic set back, were also acquiring a bit of weary worldliness about not trying to be the world's policeman - or whatever the Russian equivalent of that all too familiar homily might...
...spread her arms in the form of a cross. When the local police manhandled her, the rioting started. Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved unable to quell the demonstrators, tough riot-control troops were called in. The angry young people reportedly killed a policeman, stoned a bookstore selling Communist literature and threw a fire bomb into the local Communist Party headquarters. A sitdown strike was staged by workers in a synthetics factory. Five hundred people were arrested, of whom 200 have been jailed or are awaiting trial...
Last week Mallory attacked a couple in a Philadelphia park, robbed the man of about $10 and allegedly ordered the woman to take her clothes off. A policeman chased him through the park. When Mallory aimed a gun at his pursuer, another officer fired four shots and killed...
...This kind of thing happens fairly often," a policeman at the scene said. "We have several bomb threats every year...
...testify before a grand jury need be given immunity only from prosecution based on what he says or evidence developed from it; the majority asserted that prosecutors would not be able to misuse such leads to find other evidence to convict the witness. The court also upheld a policeman's right to stop and frisk a suspect even if the officer's suspicions are based on the word of an unnamed tipster. When the court did find that officials had overreached their authority, however, it proved ready to slap them down, thus the Justices ruled unanimously that...