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...sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...wounded man groaned, "oh God . . . get me my rosary ..." As the Navy chief bent over him, the trooper managed to whisper a report. His name was Ernest J. Morse. He had begun chasing a speeder near New Haven, and after miles of pursuit had finally flagged his quarry down. But as he got out of his patrol car, the speeder-a dark-haired youth in a grey overcoat-had pulled a pistol, fired once and driven away. The policeman muttered the first three digits of the youth's Massachusetts license number: 169. He gasped: "Go to the car radio...
...trooper's whispered words, relayed to Westport police barracks, started Connecticut's biggest man hunt. The speeder, a 20-year-old Arlington, Mass, parole violator named John Xavier Donahue, was sighted that night as he drove into Greenwich, was pursued amid a hail of sub-machinegun bullets and driven to cover in a garage loft. Only minutes later he came out, calling "Don't shoot! I surrender!" By that time Trooper Morse had been dead for four hours...
...minority opinion that i) Yugoslavia's lack of free enterprise was beside the point; 2) no case had been made out to show that Ivan's real mother was unfit to give him a proper home; 3) "the former member-of the Nazi Party and SS trooper [should not] be considered more suitable for her child [than she] who suffered so much at the hands of the Nazi army and SS troops...
Naguib has never forgotten Palestine or the men who fought with him. One day last week, while he was inspecting a military hospital, a dusky Sudanese trooper knelt as he approached, trying to kiss his hand. Naguib flung his arms round the man. Then he introduced him to everyone present with the proud words: "This is one of my boys...