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...left of the screen staring at something, there's a flash, she blinks and then a shout: "Next." A black man steps into the screen, looks toward something, and somebody out of the camera's range asks him to take off his cap; he's dressed in full army uniform, a chest bedecked with medals. Flash. "Okay, next...
...FORRESTER (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.) is a Police Story spinoff, starring shrewd but compassionate Lloyd Bridges as a detective walking a beat in uniform, trying to clean up his old neighborhood. He appears to like everyone he meets, never steals apples from the fruit stand and is respected by the locals. Even when he is responsible for the death of both sons of a woman he has known for decades, her admiration for him remains unsullied. He is, in short, the peace officer who passeth all understanding. So does his show...
...Specials brought up the rear of the parade, but they didn't have a band. Their banner showed three innocent-looking B-Specials dressed in full uniform (one facing forward, the other two flanking him as if protecting him) holding pistols level with their shoulders, pointing toward the sky. They got the biggest hand...
...each case, under different pressures, Americans in uniform used "excessive force"-a legalistic euphemism often used to describe official killing. Yet the legal system has had great difficulty in pinpointing responsibility. In all three celebrated cases, the only man convicted of criminal conduct was Lieut. William Calley, who served just 40 months for the My Lai massacre, mostly under comfortable house arrest. Last week, what may be the final legal action against any officials in the three incidents ended in a Cleveland courtroom. The record of absolving representatives of the state did not change...
Anti-American Cast. Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado, decked out in his beribboned general's uniform, clearly relished his role as host. He gave the keynote address, a self-congratulatory 50-minute oration on Peru's left-wing revolution and the aspirations of the entire nonaligned group. But at week's end an utterly unexpected coup (see page 16) brought not only Velasco's role as host but also his role as Peru's leader to a crashing halt...