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...wither away as fast as the state. But last week the Soviet Union acknowledged its soaring crime rate by creating a new "Ministry for the Protection of Public Peace," which will nationalize the country's sorely beset police forces. While sharply boosting police powers and urging more prowl cars, the Kremlin freed Russians of any liability for injury done to a suspect in making a citizen's arrest...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Two California surfers prowl the world in a studious documentary on the quest for the perfect wave...
...eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When intercepted, the abos tended to be surly, not because of any contempt for civilized counting procedures, but because a 1901 constitutional amendment demands that they be tallied not as "people...
Some curbstone quipster uttered the inevitable gag: "It must have been a Republican who complained." Still, it was awfully apt, as two blue-uniformed New York policemen piled out of a prowl car in front of Philanthropist Mary Lasker's Beekman Place town house at 1:05 in the morning. The complainant was an unidentified neighbor lady, whatever her politics, and she was finding it kind of hard to sleep, what with Dutch Adler's rhythms blaring from the open windows and most of the 110 partygoers thunderously doing all those modern dances. "Would you close a couple...
...Crawford, 33, for no apparent reason was killed by a sniper. Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through the streets in prowl cars or twelve abreast on foot. After four hours, a tenuous calm was restored. The toll: two dead, 26 injured, 34 arrested, 15 buildings damaged...