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...detectives reconstruct the event, McDuffie may well have tried to flee the police. He had accumulated traffic violations and was driving with a suspended license. Investigators believe that when McDuffie finally slowed down, police pulled him off his motorcycle. Then one officer held him as the others started to slug. "Adrenalin gets going during any high-speed chase," says one officer. "The cops just went crazy. They wanted to teach him a lesson." Says another who witnessed the incident: "They looked like a bunch of animals fighting for meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Crazy Cops | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...about proletarian literature; and his short-lived sympathies with the Communist Party. Sitting in his book-lined office, full of intellectual and literary titles, his face looked slightly faded as he talked. His manner was nervous, a bit defensive: even after all these years, it is not easy to reconstruct that period. Following are excerpts from that interview...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: William Phillips: Partisan Review Retrospective | 1/4/1980 | See Source »

...Oxford-based relief agency, it has since reopened, but only half of its looms are being used. Reason: a lack of spare parts for the steam boiler that drives them. Complains Manager Tiv Chhivky, 45, "I don't know what parts to ask for. We want to reconstruct, but we don't have the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: There Is Nothing, Monsieur | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...martial law commander, Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, with foiling the plot by arresting Kim and the other murderers. The investigation was evidently continuing. The day after the report was issued, Kim was taken to the scene of the crime by his interrogators to reconstruct his actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Normality | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...done studies to show that there is no place to reroute the central part and still make all the traffic connections the artery presently makes. We'd have to reconstruct right under the existing highway," Sloane said...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Artery Renovation Still Under Debate | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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