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Last Friday, Arafat's security men were tipped off that after noon prayers, worshippers at the Palestine Mosque in Gaza City, a fundamentalist stronghold, were planning to protest the recent arrests. About 50 Palestinian soldiers and policemen gathered outside and removed loudspeakers that had been attached to four vehicles to broadcast slogans during the march...
...middle-aged Latinas called the Sacramento hot line to complain that when they were picked up by police for jaywalking in Manteca, they were asked for residency papers. They were not carrying documentation, they said, although they were legal residents, and one of the policemen said to them, "We can send you back to Tijuana." When the women reacted angrily, they were hauled off to the county jail 15 miles away, released at 11 p.m. and told to walk home. A Manteca police spokesman said the two women were picked up for shoplifting and had volunteered that they were undocumented...
...grounds were open then. Kids scuffed through barefooted on their way to get ice-cream cones. Elmer Staats, former Comptroller General, recalled his days at the Brookings Institution, then located on Lafayette Square. "The fence was 3 ft. high and kept out only dogs. The policemen around smiled at everybody. The students at Brookings used to walk up to the front door and leave their calling cards in hopes Eleanor Roosevelt would invite them over for a reception, which she often did." There is an old story, which author Kevin Phillips picked up in his new book about Washington, Arrogant...
Some U.S. analysts claim they have purchased at least as big a chunk of the government. Recently retired Bogota DEA chief Joe Toft says narcodollars have influenced "from 50% to 75% of the Colombian Congress." The traffickers have also bought an unknown number of prosecutors, policemen and soldiers. But "their most significant victory," claims a U.S. diplomat, was the surrender program for retiring dons. "The Cali cartel dictated the penal-code reform," he says. Under the 1993 code revisions, drug traffickers who turn themselves in can have their sentences reduced by as much as two-thirds at the discretion...
This public humiliation of officers on duty was a breaking point. Many policemen simply took off their uniforms and stayed at home. The much feared police chief of the capital district, Lieut. Colonel Michel Francois, fled across the border to the Dominican Republic, turning the former Big Three of dictators into a diminished...