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...cases, a recruit was given a weekend pass, allowed to get away with some minor infraction, or awarded a passing grade on a test. In exchange, he had to pay cash to his drill instructor or some other noncom, or perform a service such as washing or waxing a sergeant's car. The bribes were slyly referred to as "birthday gifts...
Four N.C.O.s have been convicted by courts-martial, and the number is certain to grow. Three of those found guilty were drill instructors at Fort Jackson, S.C. Last week the Army reported that Sergeant First Class David Mitchell had been broken to private and sentenced to five years at hard labor, after which he will be dishonorably discharged. Mitchell, 35, was the first soldier to stand trial for the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, and was acquitted in 1970. At Fort Jackson he threatened some trainees with punishment if they did not pay him off-and recommended others...
Robert Walsh, a Boston police sergeant, said the demonstration was "wonderful, very peaceful. America is the only place in the world where they could get away with something like this," he said...
...might well have lapsed into maudlin sentimentality or self-importance. Agatha Christie just can't be taken too seriously, especially since in this specific play, she is poking fun at the conventions of the murder mystery genre, including her own work. At one point, for instance, she has Detective Sergeant Trotter--himself an insane parody of crime-fighting zeal--ask the other characters to reconstruct the crime. "Oh, that old chestnut," Mr. Paravicini sneers...
...effeminate Wren and Sam Bloomfield as Mr. Paravicini. Goodman minces marvelously through his role as the child-like homosexual, and Bloomfield, clad in an elegant dinner jacket and bedizened with rings, gives a superbly controlled performance as the uninvited guest. Also good is Mark Howard, appropriately manic as Detective Sergeant Trotter. Nancy Abrams makes a stony-faced Mrs. Boyle, although her carefully accented syllables sound too much like metered poetry...