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Last week a black rookie policewoman shot and wounded a Hispanic construction worker, touching off the worst rioting Washington had seen since Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. Police say Daniel Enrique Gomez, 30, had been drinking in public and lunged at the cop with a knife. Bystanders said Gomez was handcuffed and unarmed. Enraged, Hispanics spent the next two nights burning cars, breaking windows and looting stores in a melee joined by some blacks and whites. Calm returned only after Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon declared a curfew; by then, two people had been injured and 42 arrested...
That elevation -- making her one of the top two women in the department -- hastened her transformation from policewoman to bureaucrat. To help compensate for her lack of street savvy, Watson volunteered to supervise the night shift at one of the toughest substations. "When it was announced at roll call that I would be the lieutenant, there was a lot of booing and hissing," she recounts. "It was very rocky at first. But it didn't take long for a couple of sergeants to notice I was working very hard even if they didn't like me." By the mid-1980s...
...mountainous southeastern state of Minas Gerais is commonly known as the terra dos machoes, or land of the machos. "Here, if a man sleeps around with other women, it's a sign of masculinity," says Elaine Matozinho, a policewoman in Belo Horizonte. "But if a woman is an adulteress, it's a different story: she pays with her life...
...Wozencraft is a former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell...
...finally caught up with Jose Suarez, 51, who is suspected by federal prosecutors of following Letelier in a car from which the bomb was detonated. The Cuban American was arrested in St. Petersburg, where he had been living under his real name for at least two years. A local policewoman identified Suarez and tipped off the FBI. U.S. officials now hope that the elected government of Patricio Aylwin will extradite or prosecute Manuel Contreras and Pedro Espinoza, two high-ranking secret-police officers accused of masterminding the assassination. If so, the U.S. might resume military aid to Chile...