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Governor Kathleen Blanco, reacting to the "senseless slaying" of five teenagers in New Orleans over the weekend, promised Monday to send National Guardsmen and state police to patrol the city's hurricane-ravaged streets yet again - nearly 10 months after Hurricane Katrina. She also warned parents in the city to keep their teenagers off the streets and "out of trouble" as gangs return to reestablish their turf...
...high-crime areas. City officials, meanwhile, said they plan to reinstitute a curfew, banning young people from the streets from 11 p.m. or midnight to dawn. A crime summit is also in the works to discuss other measures to combat the city's gangs. Nagin reportedly asked for 300 guardsmen and 60 state police, but how many will be involved remains to be decided...
...last year's looting, Police Superintendent Warren Riley has promised that the city's cops will be on the streets patrolling with National Guard troops and enforcing a 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. curfew on those who don't leave. He has already asked for 3,000 Guardsmen for the next storm, whenever it comes...
When TIME printed Braddock's picture last year, letters poured in from readers asking what had become of the young man photographed on a doctor's examining table calmly inspecting the remains of his severed limb. It's a scene being played out daily as soldiers and Guardsmen come home from Iraq seeking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Brooke in San Antonio and veterans' hospitals nationwide. Three years since the start of the war, the toll of seriously wounded from Iraq exceeds 7,600--men and women without limbs, with horrid burns, with brain damage...
...spending four days in the film’s titular wasteland. The “Park” is a fifty-mile-long desert obstacle course that the convicted must navigate by foot, without the benefit of food or water, while avoiding capture by police officers and National Guardsmen. Dissidents who are captured before completing the course are remitted to police custody to serve out their sentences; those who complete it are promised freedom. Upon release, social conservatives accused Watkins of sedition, and the critical establishment dismissed the film as—according to one review?...