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...boondocks. Keeping one eye on the highway and the other a half-mile up the road to sniff out a speed trap; perfecting the technique of hitting the brakes--but not too hard--when you see Smokey zap you with his radar gun; offering a revolutionary excuse to the trooper as he asks for your license and registration--these are all classic features of intercity travel in America...
...after 1:00 a.m. when the telephone shook Ike's father from a sound sleep that September morning. The anonymous voice of a Texas state trooper came over the line through 2000 miles of static...
...cocaine and get racing, then later on use alcohol to come down and get to sleep," says Kevin McEneaney of Phoenix House, a Manhattan drug- free center. "They may also use alcohol to mask other drugs. Drinking is more respectable than putting powder in your nose." Illinois State Trooper Bob Campbell says teenagers often cover drugs by having a drink before driving. If they are stopped by police, the blood alcohol level will be too low to result in arrest...
...hospital where a young SS officer lay wounded and dying. The Nazi made Wiesenthal sit and listen while he confessed his atrocities, including burning down a houseful of Jews in the Ukraine and shooting those who tried to escape by leaping from the smoking windows. The SS trooper, tormented by guilt, begged Wiesenthal, as a Jew, to forgive him. Wiesenthal turned and walked away. He survived the camps and has spent the past 40 years hunting Nazi war criminals. But he remained troubled by doubts that he had done the right thing in refusing to forgive the SS trooper. "Forgetting...
...well-orchestrated raid by local police, the FBI and other federal agents netted a fearsome arsenal of weapons, ranging from UZI submachine guns to antitank weapons. Most of the bikers surrendered quietly, but in Connecticut a state trooper was shot in the hip by a suspect. The eleven-state offensive was the culmination of a three-year undercover operation dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February...