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...Durban township last week, thousands of Indians fled as gangs of young blacks ransacked and burned shops and houses. In Umlazi township, police used tear gas and rubber bullets against mobs of rampaging youths who burned shops and schools. In KwaMashu, a gang attacked the home of a black policeman and set it ablaze. To frightened Indians, the scene was all too reminiscent of the riots of 1949, when 142 Indians lost their lives in clashes with Zulus...
...white bulletproof Alfa Romeo carrying Antonio Cassarà, 38, the head of Palermo's homicide squad, turned into the courtyard of the housing complex, Laura Cassarà waved to her husband from their apartment window. Cassarà and his two escorts sprinted up the steps leading to the building, but before the policeman could turn the doorknob, three Kalashnikov submachine guns sprayed a flood of bullets from the windows of three floors of a building across the street. Cassarà and one of his bodyguards died in the fusillade...
...Pinter film Accident, another story of academics in rural England, a young man who dies violently and his mysterious death-magnet of a girlfriend. It can even be seen as an upscale soap opera, in which a decent spinster finally stumbles into a mature, equitable relationship with the local policeman. But Hare is after much more: the composite portrait of middle-class England, a community in which an affable exterior hides sexual crimes behind the privet hedge. The casting coup of Redgrave mère et fille pays handsome dividends: Vanessa, ever luminous, her face a substructure of sinew and stress...
...life inspiration for more than a few scripts on NBC's Miami Vice, but recent events have particularly tarnished the police image. Investigators unearthed a badge-selling scheme, touching off investigations of three area police departments by the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. A suburban Miami policeman has been arrested on charges of robbery, kidnaping and attempted murder, while two city officers. were charged with cocaine possession. Detectives are also looking into the whereabouts of $150,000 missing from police undercover funds. Last week's urine-test lineup indicates that honest officers are more than a little...
...demonstrators approached Manila's Liwasan Bonifacio, a central square, they were met by police antiriot squads. Accounts of what happened next differ. The demonstrators said a motorcycle policeman rammed into the crowd and other police quickly joined him, firing at the crowd with live ammunition. The police, however, said the demonstrators mauled the officer and provoked the police into a reaction by throwing rocks and homemade bombs. In any event, the results were tragic. Two students were killed, one instantly; about 20 other demonstrators were wounded, and several policemen suffered shrapnel wounds...