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...positions. The Rangers took cover and returned small-arms fire. U.S. gunships protectively sprayed the resisting forces. "They were waiting for us," recalled First Lieut. Michael Menu, who was wounded in the initial attack. "We could hear the shooting and the bombs, but we could not see anything," said Sergeant Terry Guinn, who lay wounded while hearing Cubans all around...
...daybreak, exactly 72 hours before the terrorist explosion killed scores of his comrades at Marine headquarters, First Sergeant William Creech had just awakened and shuffled outside with his mirror and canteen of hot water to shave. And talk. "There's no comparison with Viet Nam," said the Georgian, at 34 older than most of his fellows. "We're here for high visibility, not to engage in combat." Life in any war zone is both tedious and desperately anxious...
...deterioration caused concern not only among the Lebanese. On several occasions last week the U.S. Marine compound at Beirut International Airport came under rocket and small-arms fire. Sergeant Allen Soifert, 25, a member of the 1,200-strong U.S. contingent in the four-nation Multi-National Force, was patrolling the camp's perimeter in a Jeep when a sniper's bullet hit him in the chest. Soifert died of his wounds shortly thereafter. Half an hour earlier, another Marine had been injured by sniper fire as he drove through the same area. The new casualties brought...
...example of "ass-kicking" which I provided in the Wilson-Kelling paper originated with a Black police sergeant who is a hero among residents of public housing in Chicago. Residents know he cares and will work to protect them. He has a keen sense of injustice: he was reared in the terror of public housing preyed on by gangs. He is committed to assisting residents to control their own neighborhoods...
...Sunday, an informant, a wino and ex-convict, passed the word (and was paid 50? for it): "It's getting ready to blow." Two hours later, 10th Precinct Sergeant Arthur Howison led a raid on the League, arresting 73 Negro customers and the bartender. A crowd gathered, taunting the fuzz. "Just as we were pulling away," Howison said, "a bottle smashed a squad-car window...