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...Some 200 kilometres to the north, in a roadside stall off State Highway 1, Adrianne Rochford contemplates the election while selling crayfish and mussels to passing tourists. "It's a tricky one," says Rochford, who's voted Labour most of her life. Yes, she's heard praise for Key and wouldn't mind seeing him in the Beehive. But she adds: "Who's it going to help?" New Zealanders would have a variety of answers to that question. But in many cases, it's not help exactly that they want. More than anything, come Nov. 8, they're looking...
Although the judge found the lines "alas, not very lecherous," he was "delighted" by the one-word fourth line. Some of the five runners-up were slightly-but only slightly-bawdier. New Jerseyite David Rochford wrote...
...Chicago, James Rochford was named the new police superintendent after the convictions of 48 cops in the past three years and the firing or forced resignations of 407 members of the force. Two weeks ago, after 72 top officers took lie detector tests, Rochford gave the force its biggest command shakeup ever; 60 of the highest-ranking men were moved up, down or around...
...Rochford immediately called for a "complete turnabout" on the force and proposed a list of modest reforms that filled three single-spaced pages. Main items: setting up a new Office of Professional Standards, staffed in part by civilians, to investigate police brutality and corruption; reinstating psychiatric evaluations of applicants to weed out the emotionally unstable; and attracting more blacks and Spanish-speaking people to the force. Rochford also asked the mayor to take away the police's power to issue liquor licenses and give it to some other city agency...
...addition, Rochford disclosed results of lie-detector tests that he had ordered 72 top officers to take in order to determine if any had participated in or condoned acts of corruption. Seven men failed all four questions, and nine failed one or more. Rochford demanded and is getting the resignations of all 72 officers. He will now determine who should be reinstated, demoted or fired...