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David B. Durk, LL.D., Amherst class of '57, New York police sergeant. Your college greets you with the proudest title of all, "a good cop." You expand our imagination of what a man educated here might do to achieve a more decent and a more humane society...
...against Portuguese colonialism. This demand gained wide student support (including that of The Crimson), it introduced a new word .."divestiture".. into radical rhetoric, and eventually led to the occupation of Massachusetts Hall for a week. Until the PALC campaign, most corporate responsibility buffs had considered divestiture to be a cop-out, and had criticized both Yale and MIT for selling their G.M. stock to avoid having to vote on dissident proxy questions. Harvard eventually decided not to sell its Gulf stock and not to vote for the disclosure resolution--the later on the grounds that it had gotten Gulf...
...crew did some interviews at a railroad station, the police gave them a cordial lecture, pointing out that transportation centers are considered military facilities and off limits to photographers. NBC got to keep its film anyway. An ABC team shooting near the Kremlin was also accosted by a cop; he merely wanted to suggest a better camera angle. A security colonel com plained to the Christian Science Monitor that "I have to tell everyone 20 times to stand back," but while the summit lasted, the Russians seemed generally willing to indulge the whims of Western newsmen...
...Rambo, the Kid; Teasle, the Cop. Rambo hitchhiking, Teasle rodding him on to the edge of town. But Rambo doesn't shuffle down the road. Instead (the reader is cold and sure as the adrenaline shoots: oh, man, it will come ...) he walks back into town. A second time: the Cop, the Kid, back to the edge of town. And walks back in. (The reader: right, right, now let him be a discharged Green Beret...
...third time: Rambo in jail. Won't tell his name (but wait till they find out ...). Won't let his hair be cut. Teasle starts to cut it anyway; good cop, Korea veteran, a big medal. Rambo, sure enough, an ex-Green Beret (and, my God, a Medal of Honor winner), tries to hold himself in, won't let them force him to start killing again (Come back, Shane!) because this time it won't stop...