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After Helms agreed to cop the plea and all details were worked out, the Justice Department whisked him into the federal courtroom of Judge Barrington D. Parker in Washington without notice. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti presented a three-page "statement of facts" to which Helms had agreed...
...contest plea, such cooperation with the government would furnish some limited evidence that Helms indeed recognizes the gravity of his misdeeds. Otherwise, the nation will be left with one lingering image of Richard Helms, that of a jaunty one-time Nixon hatchet man who views his nolo contendere cop-out as a "badge of honor," not the scarlet letter of "disgrace and shame" Judge Parker so eloquently described...
...cop who believes this mayhem is unnecessary is Richard Turner, a former stock car racing driver who is now a police official in Hutchins, Texas. He runs a driving school specializing in the act of the "slow chase." His three-day course, already taken by more than 750 officers from Texas, Florida and Kansas, consists of six hours of class instruction (usually in a converted saloon near Dallas) and 18 hours of driving on a course with turns known as Serpentine, Lollypop and T-Bone Alley. Turner emphasizes calm, smooth movements and no tire-squealing maneuvers. "Think slow," he tells...
...Tommy liked to tell stories about the lowest kind of human behavior." The storyteller, Thomas Spellacy, is a 72-year-old retired Los Angeles cop who has either witnessed or heard them...
...next picture, he settles for more down-to-earth transportation. Stingray stars Hamill as a high school hot-rod builder and Annie Potts as a hippie hooker who jumps into his passenger seat. Hamill got a few bruises from his Stingray stunts and a brief scare from a California cop. Says Hamill: "We were horsing around on Van Nuys Boulevard, and a cop came over and told us to get out of the Stingray. When he saw the camera and realized we were making a movie, he turned as red as the car and walked away." Apparently even when Skywalker...