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...worse off than it was before. With Hanoi surely tightening the defenses of the P.O.W. camps, further rescue attempts will be vastly more difficult?but President Nixon has already hinted that he has just that in mind. At his Thanksgiving dinner for injured servicemen, speaking to Marine Sergeant George Lowry, the President likened the situation to a football game. "Sometimes you have to take them by surprise," he said. "You run a play and it fails. Then you turn around and call the same play again because they aren't expecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Acting to Aid the Forgotton Men | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...Police Sergeant Jerome Jasinski recalled on the witness stand last week, the man was weeping when he entered Detroit's Second Precinct at 2:35 a.m. on May 8. "I want to turn myself in." "For what?" asked Jasinski. "For murder," the man said, as he displayed two handguns tucked in his waistband. "I just murdered my daughter and her hippie friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Joe and Arville | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

...whole police scene in Act II is handled as a broad farce, and one cannot help thinking that it might have been better played straightforwardly. Mark Baker as the Sergeant postured just a little too much to be comfortable. The second act in general hangs together more nicely, although the orchestra, once again, is embarrassing. Unless they learn to play in tune and to take their cues, the whole production would be measurably improved if it were done without them...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: G and S Sunken Vessel The Pirates of Penzance at Agassiz until next Saturday | 12/5/1970 | See Source »

Then Capp turned things over to the night's real attraction, Martha, with the caveat: "World War I had its Sergeant York; World War II, George Patton. But we have a much more dangerous fighter in our battle with the left, and she is even sometimes dangerous to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: And Now, the Spiro and Martha Show | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...means do all blacks feel that way. Sergeant William Perry Sr. of the New York Guardians group says he would not encourage his members to do that kind of police intelligence work, "but we also won't hold it against them." He adds: "If a unit has to infiltrate the Panthers or the Young Lords, then perhaps the bosses ought to be black so that the attitudes are correct, so that you have control over what's going on." Assistant Chief Inspector Eldridge Waith, highest-ranking black officer on the New York force, suggests: "Infiltration by blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Anguish of Blacks in Blue | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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