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Ordinary citizens also feel the weight of Bokassa's very personal approach to criminal justice. Once, disturbed by a rash of burglaries in Bangui, he led a group of soldiers armed with clubs to the central prison. There he watched as 45 convicted thieves were beaten and left, brutally wounded, to roast for six hours under the tropical sun. When U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim protested the atrocity, Bokassa called him "a pimp" and "a colonialist" for daring to intervene...
Explanations for this rash of fan violence, however, must focus on the evolution of both the fans' and the players' attitudes...
...Court had ruled that evidence abandoned by a suspect is no longer constitutionally protected. This logical legal distinction has resulted in literally hundreds of police every year reporting in court that defendants dropped incriminating evidence-usually narcotics -thereby justifying arrest. There are local variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin "in plain view." This allows policemen who just happen...
...Sadat must soon be able to show not only his own people but also more intractable Arab leaders that his strategy of trusting Kissinger and going the negotiating route can produce better results than a resumption of fighting. For its part, Israel would prefer an agreement to end the rash of truce violations that have claimed 14 dead and 60 wounded since the ceasefire. In one incident last week, three Israeli soldiers were killed when Syrian mortar shells hit their trench. On the Suez front on election day, there were 72 incidents involving mortar fire, small arms and antitank missiles...
...commando movement's problems is that its strength on the West Bank is unknown, or at least unproved. Probably for that reason, a rash of terrorist incidents broke out there last week. One grenade landed in the Jeep of the military governor of Nablus, Colonel Eliezer Segev, wounding him seriously; the Israelis accordingly imposed a curfew on the town of Nablus for the first time in four years. To the north near the town of Jenin, Israeli troops demolished five houses belonging to Arabs suspected of sabotage...