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...walking alone on a deserted street late at night. Suddenly a stranger steps from the shadows and jabs a sharp object in your ribs. "Gimme your wallet," he demands...
...resist. Immediately hand over your wallet, your watch, your jewelry and anything else the mugger wants. That is the primary survival tip given by law-enforcement officials across the nation to potential victims of armed street criminals. Says officer Michael Sansky of the Los Angeles police department: "If he's got a weapon, you go along with whatever he says. You're not going to gouge out an eye or kick out a knee if he's armed...
...mugger. Even expert fighters are not skilled enough to disarm a mugger unless the element of surprise is on their side. Admits Gerry Armstrong, 31, of Miramar, Fla., a martial-arts instructor with 19 years of experience: "If someone pulls a gun and tells me to hand up my wallet, he can have it. A bullet travels faster than my foot...
...enforces them strictly. The Raiders are familiar figures in Bay Area bars during their off-days, but Flores bans such revelry as game day approaches, levying heavy fines on miscreants. Says Guard Gene Upshaw: "Tom doesn't say anything if you screw up; he just cuts off your wallet." That his methods work was abundantly clear on Super Sunday. As Flores told his brother during the championship season, "Not bad for a Chicano grapepicker, is it?" -By B.J. Phillips
...charm and an almost arrogant self-confidence. Smith showed both in audition. "He came in and sang one note-B-flat-over and over," recalls Leach, "and right off he informed us that he could pull it off. He even pulled Errol Flynn's picture out of his wallet...