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...hour and ten minutes after the Harrises were arrested, FBI Special Agent Tom Padden and San Francisco Police Inspector Tim Casey climbed the stairs to the apartment, still not knowing what they would find. They pounded on the door. It opened, and Wendy Yoshimura looked out. Behind her was the taller woman-Patty Hearst. Padden warned Yoshimura: "Don't move or I'll blast your head off." Neither woman stirred, although each had a .38-cal. pistol in her purse...
...seriousness of his situation rests with ever-increasing firmness on Charles' modishly tailored shoulders. On the way to his dead mistress's funeral, he silently mouths a confession in the back seat of a car. A police inspector confides to him that the murder may never be solved. With mounting distress, Charles tells his wife (Stçphane Audran) about his affair and the killing. She considers these revelations and is understanding. He tells his friend François, who is forgiving too. "No one," François explains, "is guilty of what happens in a nightmare." After...
...responsibility for the operation of trains-engineers, conductors, trainmen who moved cars to sidings and dispatchers-had to carry a fine timepiece that would not gain or lose more than 40 seconds in two weeks, and had to be cleaned and regulated twice a year by a railroad watch inspector...
...Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace sweltered stoically in their bearskins, London bobbies resorted to what some considered to be the British equivalent of toplessness -they went tieless. "It's the first time in our history we've allowed them to do this," explained an apologetic London inspector. "As soon as the weather turns back to normal, the ties will be back...
...BENGALI INHERITANCE (Pantheon; 225 pages; $6.95) is also based on the gold standard. Hong Kong Senior Inspector Richard Chan is a heroic young pro whose district is the last resting place of a 24-karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice...