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...just that. Impressed when he got near-instant service one night from a radio-dispatched plumber, he wondered why pipes should be better cared for than patients. His answer: radio-dispatched doctors as part of the "S O S" service that already was providing Paris with plumbers and other fix-it aid in response to phone calls...
...Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch a massive attack on the 101st the next night...
...night last February, Mits had a flat tire while driving his family home after visiting Grace's relatives. As he got out to fix it, another car drew up and hovered nearby. When he opened the door to get back into his car, automatically turning on the inside lights, Mits became an easy target and was shot dead. Danny, who had lived with Mits and "loved him like a brother," was immediately pulled in for questioning by the police...
Inbau recommends the sympathetic pitch that anyone in the same fix "might have done the same thing," that the crime had a "morally acceptable motive." Also helpful: "Condemn the victim." With a rapist, for example, the detective should indignantly exclaim: "Joe, no woman should be on the street alone at night looking as sexy as she did. Even here today she's got on a low-cut dress that makes visible damn near all of her breasts. That's wrong...
...Chrysler Corp. called back 17,500 of its 1966 Dodge Polaras and Monacos to fix a throttle linkage that can stretch during sharp braking, causing the engine to idle too fast. Chrysler said the fault had caused no accidents that it knew of but it was "concerned...