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Asif Ali Zardari faced a nasty homecoming when he flew from Dubai to Lahore last Saturday. More than 13,000 policemen cordoned off the airport and Lahore's main crossroads to keep thousands from welcoming the husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Zardari had barely unfastened his seat belt when police boarded the aircraft and hauled him away in an armed motorcade to his residence. As police bundled him off, Zardari yelled: "I've seen jail, and I'm ready to go again...
...midmorning police and military units had completely sealed off the roads leading into Daveyton, while at key intersections armored cars intercepted internal traffic. Helicopters flew overhead. Mounted policemen stood at the far edge of the cemetery, like shadowy centaurs shimmering in the dazzle of fine dust and sunlight...
...extraordinary profession of innocence. Wearing his customary cowboy hat, Miami Police Chief Clarence Dickson led 30 top officers to Cedars Medical Center for drug-screening tests, which they passed. On the same day, 500 of the department's 1,020 rank-and-file policemen also submitted urine samples for testing, with results due next week. Said spokesman Jack Sullivan: "The guys were just tired of all the bad publicity." Drug-financed corruption in South Florida has provided the real-life inspiration for more than a few scripts on NBC's Miami Vice, but recent events have particularly tarnished the police...
...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...
...grasp the enormity of the crimes. And social workers typically do not work on weekends or evenings, when, according to lawyers, much of the prostitution trade occurred. Yet officials say their social services are not under scrutiny. "The mission of social workers isn't to control families or be policemen within families, but just to help with families who are in difficulty," says Garnier, the local council official. While officials continue to say they did nothing wrong, the rumblings about institutional failure finally exploded earlier this month when police officers took the stand to explain what went wrong. Le Monde...