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...pictures, no pictures," shouted the black U.S. Marine sergeant to a group of photographers waiting at Ilopango Air Force Base on the outskirts of San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. The sergeant, a helicopter maintenance mechanic, is understandably camera shy: as one of the 19 Americans sent to El Salvador by the Carter Administration last January, he is a prime target for leftist guerrillas. Anonymity is his best defense...
...small town in the West. The West of what is never specified, and the saloon's stained-glass windows, the standard Italian names, clash oddly with the smattering of tagged-on Harvard jokes to keep the setting questionable. Adina shuns Nemorino's attentions and smiles instead on Sergeant Belcore, a grimacing, pillow-stuffed dandy who has just marched into town and showered her with his military...
Crumley is a former Air Force staff sergeant. He sends mimeographed copies of the school's rules to each child's parents and firmly believes there is a connection between establishing order and the possibility of learning. He has demonstrated that a system of discipline applied with justice and love need not be repressive but can be educationally liberating. The school's rule: two or three lapses can bring a threat of suspension; two threats of suspension may bring expulsion. But there have been only 21 expulsions, most of them in the first year over refusal...
...Vegas Police Sergeant Robert Hilliard was not impressed by Cline's story. Checking the charred upper floors in the 30-story building after the fire was put out, he found trays and dishes still in the halls. A small point, perhaps, but, concluded Hilliard, "Cline wasn't doing his job, or he wasn't telling the truth." Cline was questioned again and given a lie-detector test. Said Police Lieut. John Connor: "He failed miserably." Finally, Cline signed a statement admitting to a far more sordid story: he had been engaged in a homosexual...
...retired Air Force master sergeant, Cline had dropped out of high school in Sunnymead, Calif. He was placed in a home for juvenile delinquents when, his father said, "I was overseas, and the wife couldn't handle him." Cline was under psychiatric care in California from 1973 to 1975, then began to drift across the U.S. He worked for a time as a busboy at the MGM Grand Hotel but is not thought to have set the fire there that killed 84 people last Nov. 21. Since the MGM blaze, Las Vegas has had two other hotel fires...