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...primary purpose of the conference is to teach those already committed to defeating President Nixon the skills they will need to achieve their goal. Students will spend the weekend in workshops dealing with such problems as delegate selection. precinct-level organization. party mechanics, fund-raising, and press relations...
...candidacy on an expensive, half-hour nationwide TV broadcast. In spite of the misgivings of his campaign manager, Hy Raskin, he will also enter the New Hampshire primary. Raskin wanted to concede the snowy state to Muskie and concentrate on Florida, where Jackson adherents are already engaged in precinct organization. But Jackson feels that New Hampshire is small enough so that he can overcome his low-recognition handicap. He also reasons that his political philosophy-a singular mix of the liberal and the conservative -will have considerable appeal for the New Hampshire party. Wishful theorizing or realistic gambling...
...offered to get narcotics informants to cooperate with the commission. Two of his informants were wired with tape recorders and transmitters. These were used to monitor their illicit dealings with policemen. Meetings took place on street corners, in automobiles and, in one instance, just two doorways from a precinct house...
...Edward Droge Jr., was called as a witness late in the week. After four years on the force, Droge left the department earlier this year to continue his education at the University of Southern California. He testified that of the 70 patrolmen he had known at the 80th precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, only two were not on the take. Despite the fact that Droge won eight citations, he casually accepted payoffs in cash or weapons. Gamblers would throw a roll of bills through a window into the back seat of his radio car, though once their...
Many of the scenes were shot along the East River, around ramshackle warehouses and worn tenements that give the movie a sense of gritty realism. The actors who play the cops are so well cast that they seem to have grown up next door to the precinct house. Gene Hackman plays Popeye Doyle, who likes to ogle girls in boots, break heads and bust blacks; Roy Scheider is his dogged, if only slightly less compulsive, assistant. Eddie Egan plays their boss with bullish authenticity-as well he might since he is an ex-cop who figured in the actual incident...