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...were about to attack the next hangar, a smaller one, when an efficient Teterboro policeman drove up, a stocky black-leather trooper who politely said that the blue executive had summoned him and that he would arrest us if we didn't quickly disappear. We retreated to Manny's Cockpit Restaurant, with its bicentennial decor, to dry off and plan strategy and punish ourselves with thoughts of condominiums and never-more-than-ten-minutes-of-rain-a-day. Two dozen yards off, Bruce was pumping gas into the Miami-bound Lear jet, and we couldn't look for its pilot...
...morale of the 20,000-member security force may become a problem. The Smith capitulation has raised questions about the soldiers' zeal in fighting Rhodesia's guerrillas. A young trooper in a downtown Salisbury discotheque sounded a now familiar complaint: "What the hell. We've surrendered already. If Smith's not going to fight, I damn well won't either." A letter from a reservist to the Rhodesia Herald seconded the soldier's view: "Is it worth doing my call-up in two months time? I don't want to lose my life...
...nearly every family in town has at least one member working at the Reserve plant. In fact, many of the town's residents, believing that their community is doomed, fear they will have to apply for welfare. Says Robert Kind, 45, a Silver Bay councilman and Minnesota state trooper whose job is not dependent on Reserve: "I'll be around to shut the lights out and shut the town down...
...uprisings since February to ten-had been caused deliberately. Curfews were clapped on five Arab cities-including Hebron and Nablus-and at least one refugee camp. Arab politicians, including ones who gained office in last month's anti-Israel municipal-election returns, charged the pacifying forces with storm-trooper tactics. Said Elias Freij, mayor of Bethlehem: "People are fed up with the Israeli occupation and they want an immediate...
...Meyer Report released last December--before the state of New York would finally admit that the inquiry into the Attica massacre was biased, that the prosecution was "one-sided" in taking out 42 indictments on 62 inmates for 1289 alleged crimes and only one indictment on a state trooper. It took almost four and a half years for the truth to emerge: that, according to the Meyer report, state troopers committed "criminal acts of brutality to inmates," that troopers and corrections officers failed to act as courageously and legally as Rockefeller implied when he praised them for doing "a superb...