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...street fighter from South Philadelphia where he was raised. During his career, when heads were banged, white or more often black, Rizzo frequently made it a point to be there to do the banging. "I am," he often boasted, a thick finger stabbing the air, "the toughest cop in America." Last week in an emotional Democratic primary, Rizzo, 50, rolled over liberal Congressman William J. Green, with Hardy Williams, a black state representative, running a distant third. Rizzo is now a strong favorite to be elected mayor of Philadelphia in November...
FRANK RIZZO describes himself as "a tough cop." That's putting it mildly. When he led a dragnet of police officers against the Black Panthers, he commented, "If we let idiots like this survive under our form of government, maybe we'll have to change...
...Sweetback is not only bad, but dumb, and full of dumb, ineffective violence. And to be afraid of reviewing it because of the color of one's skin-or even to make that distinction a qualifier for a review-is to glibly cop-out on universal standards of decency, as well as admit to racial hermeticism...
...country's former top cop, Honecker enjoys strong support from the East German security services-and from the Soviets, who maintain 20 combat-ready divisions in East Germany. The Russians, in fact, call him "nash chelovyek" (our man). Honecker's only known diversion is hunting, which he does alone. He lives outside Berlin in a villa in the heavily guarded government complex at Wandlitz with Margot and their teen-age son. A Communist diplomat who has visited the Honecker home describes it as "spotless, functional, unimaginative and stiff-just like Honecker...
...widely praised public service. "One of the reasons this program has succeeded is because there's just one man-me-dealing with the police," Simmons says. "The danger is letting this communication become too friendly. Occasionally the police will start to think of me as a cop. One mistake and an informant could be killed. I don't really want to know the name of the informant. All we want is the information...