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More than 400 policemen charged University Hall early this morning and forcibly--and sometimes violently--removed several hundred students who were occupying the building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Raided University Hall | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...hours, the Palestinian urchins scowling through the 20-ft.-high chain-link fence at Israeli soldiers and policemen held back their rain of stones. In a gesture calculated to show progress toward granting the Palestinians limited autonomy, the Israelis planned to hand the onetime Gaza City beachfront hotel-turned-police barracks over to P.L.O. representatives. Israeli officials had billed the ceremony as the "transfer of a police station," and TV cameras came out in force to record the event. Little matter ( that most of the 50 Israeli police who until recently slept there had already moved into other, more comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Postponed | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...claim that you don't believe in caning. Tell that to Rodney King! Your policemen understand the need for such punishment, but are too embarrassed to do it in public, with government sanction. Instead, you can in secret, losing all of the beating's value in deterrance...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Singapore's Teenage Pinata | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...begins with two policemen falling into a comic argument over whether to let their prisoner, an army deserter, escape. The quarrel leads to one of them killing the other and then committing suicide. It climaxes with a priest -- a worldly and genial man -- hanging himself in his church. He has fallen into despair after too profound an exposure to the antireligious writings of the poet-philosopher Miguel de Unamuno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Moment in the Sun | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character is battered into making a confession, he stayed awake for three nights, during which director Sheridan arranged to have him mock- interrogated by actual policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Dashing Daniel | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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