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...town's police headquarters. Again and again, the crowds surged forward before being driven back by shots fired in the air by the remaining police -- most had already stolen away. (The Marines had confiscated mortars, heavy weapons and deadly fragmentation grenades but had left six rifles for the police.) Policemen are seldom assigned to their own towns -- it is harder to abuse the people one knows well -- but nine of them had nowhere to run and were huddled inside when reporters entered to ask about the gunfire. "They have burned our uniforms," a man who said he was the local...
...seconds it took to get outside, most of the police had run out the back, terrified of facing a fire fight like the one that had left 10 Haitian policemen dead in Cap Haitien three days before. I followed them and found eight hiding in other buildings of the compound. I told them to put their hands in the air. We were walking back to the main building when the Special Forces pushed in. It was over, and no one had died...
...dictate how they may and may not treat their people. But the lesson is not forgotten. Just two days ago, the Haitian police tried to stage an ambush. Police teamed with plaincloths junta-supporters in an attempt to draw American blood. The attempt failed. U.S. Marines killed 10-Haitian policemen without taking a serious casualty...
...takeover of the French embassy in the Hague, in which 11 hostages were seized. After he took an unsuccessful shot with a bazooka at an El Al airliner parked at Orly Airport in January 1975, police rounded up Michel Moukharbel, Carlos' Lebanese adjutant. Moukharbel then led three unarmed policemen to a party where Carlos sat strumming a guitar. After chatting briefly, Carlos excused himself to go to the bathroom. He returned with a gun, killed Moukharbel and two of the police, wounding the third. Then he fled to Algeria...
...panel of three federal judges said two Los Angeles policemen convicted of civil rights violations in the beating of motorist Rodney King should get tougher sentences. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, in Los Angeles, could double the 21/2-year terms given to Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer Laurence Powell...