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...ironic that women can ride in a Humvee but they can't ride in a tank. Seems to me you're a lot safer in a tank," she said. "They are not worried about risk. If they were worried about risk, women wouldn't be firemen and policemen. The problem is that we've had this tradition in the military that women aren't offensive...
...Saddam speech was a pep talk for the troops. He urged continued resistance and praised the battle performance of Iraqi soldiers, paramilitaries, policemen and tribal warriors. The speech was punctuated by Islamic references and cries of ?Allahu Akbar? (?God is Great?). Saddam scoffed at U.S. plans for a quick victory, making clear that Iraq's strategy is to draw American forces into a military and political quagmire. "The enemy is working on making (the war) short," Saddam said, "and we, with the will of God, are working on making it long and heavy, so that the enemy will sink...
...Official radio stations beam nothing but songs and speeches on and by Hussein, and these are heard on virtually every crossroad and intersection, blared out by blistering loudspeakers. Those speakers are positioned near police outposts, and Saddam's Baath Party operatives closely monitor the policemen to make sure that the Iraqi leader's voice continues to be heard. The elite party leaders are still enforcing the regime's commands. They roam the streets with high-powered four-wheelers (as opposed to the dilapidated and outdated cars owned by the rest of the public) and they're especially busy during...
...group of white policemen arrived on the scene, standing back and eyeing the protesters, as passersby glanced at the display. One man, as he walked by me, muttered “What are those crazy n---ers up to now?” Of course I’d heard racial slurs before, but the offhanded, public way in which it was said, and the way in which the same man smiled and nodded politely at me seconds later, as though my skin color and mere presence in the area connected me to his racism, shocked me more than...
...Angeles Sheriff's Department used the FBI system to solve one of the city's most notorious crimes, the 1957 murders of two El Segundo policemen. Just before Christmas, LA detectives dusted off the case file and, for the first time, ran a single print left by the killer against the FBI database. To their astonishment, out came the name of Gerald F. Mason, a respected 68-year-old retired businessman living in Columbia, S.C. He was never one of the several hundred suspects in the case; his print dated from a 1956 South Carolina burglary arrest. Mason was handcuffed...