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...that Strauss took over the Defense Ministry and boasted that Germans would never again play "foot soldiers to the American atomic knights," Augstein and Der Spiegel attacked. The magazine jeered at inconsistencies in Strauss's defense policies. It sneered when Strauss arrogantly pulled rank on a West German cop who stopped the Defense Minister for a minor traffic offense. It accused him of helping a friend land juicy contracts for the construction of U.S. military housing facilities in West Germany. In a 1961 cover story, Der Spiegel characterized Strauss as a power-hungry, unscrupulous warmonger who "aims...
...McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some of them pretty husky too, and his scufflings with them were utterly futile, merely adding a dash of absurdity to the proceedings...
...Nationalist regime and was overheard by a plainclothesman who warned him that such talk would get him into trouble. To Chan's surprise, the plainclothesman made him a sort of protege-a riddle that was solved six months later when the Red army captured Canton and the cop was revealed as an underground Communist...
...climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land...
...Armand Belvisi, 37, is an army deserter and onetime cop who spent four years in jail for stealing $2,800 from a mail truck. Called an inveterate woman chaser in court, he explained placidly to the bench: "Well, I don't smoke or drink...