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...living room. My new Cadillac bored me. And I didn't know what the hell was right or wrong." Joseph Wambaugh, 36, the author of The New Centurions and The Blue Knight, is back on the beat as a detective with the Los Angeles police department after a six-month absence. Wambaugh's bestsellers about policemen have earned him more money than he wants to say, certainly more than his 13-year cop career. He still plans to write on his off-hours, but mainly, he says, "I want to stay a working...
...landscape as it can be seen only by the insider: American interrogation experts presiding over whippings and water torture and electric-shock "therapy" of V.C. suspects (including women), fire bases overrun by enemy sapper squads because the defenders were all stoned on grass, the fragging, the profiteering, the six-month ticket punchers, the "cover your ass" mentality...
Several programs have had meager results. WIN (for Work INcentive). which trains welfare mothers for such jobs as clerk and keypunch operator, enrolls about 120,000 women a year, but 70% drop out before finishing the three-to six-month course, mostly because of physical or emotional problems, including drug addiction. The Job Corps, which houses youths in camps in order to take them out of a ghetto environment while providing training, has attracted only 21,000 to its 71 centers, which have a capacity of 25,000. Many youngsters prefer even slums to the barracks-like camps...
LaVelle's pungent views caused wide comment and after two more freelance articles he won a six-month contract with the Tribune at $75 a week. Although his right-of-center views fit comfortably in the Tribune's conservative pages, LaVelle disdains ideology. Some notions from recent columns...
...drug traffic. Despite the June ruling, no effort has yet been made to recall either Caldwell or Pappas for questioning. The reason, Caldwell speculates, is loss of official interest in the Panthers and a wish to avoid controversy with the press in an election year. Branzburg is under a six-month state contempt sentence, but he now works at the Detroit Free Press and refuses to return to Kentucky...