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...according to Lavelle, "the word apparently got distorted," and somehow the Air Force bureaucracy beneath him took it to be standard procedure to falsify reports on all subsequent staged "protective reaction" raids. He said that he never knew of the continued falsifications until confronted with them by Air Force Inspector General Lewis Wilson in March, after a letter from Lonnie Franks touched off an investigation...
...most bizarre occurrence, one which forced the rebels to move before they had planned, took place some 7000 miles away in the Carribean. Henrique Malta Galvao, a former colonial High Inspector and a staunch opponent of the then dictator Antonio de Oliveria Salazar, seized the Portuguese luxury liner Santa Maria," the second largest ship in the nation's merchant navy. Along with 68 men armed with machine guns. Galvao hijacked the ship after leaving Curacao with 600 passengers and 300 crew members aboard...
...dead whales; the rest are processed on huge factory ships at sea. The Japanese-American agreement-unless it is revised following President Nixon's Hawaii talks with Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka-thus means little more than that Japan is willing to make a gesture to appease what Whaling Inspector Kineo Kegasawa calls America's "cry-boy environmentalists...
...centered totally on the village or hamlet where a man had a fixed place and derived his whole identity from his link to the village and the worship of his ancestors. Says FitzGerald: "Americans live in a society of replaceable parts-in theory, anyone can become President or sanitary inspector-but the Vietnamese lived in a society of particular people...
...with Simenon's Inspector Maigret, exposure to Van der Valk is likely to prove infectious. Even when the story seems to unwind in slow motion, Van der Valk's reflective concern for the role of character in crime makes the trip worthwhile. The prizewinning Criminal Conversation (1966), for instance, presents an Amsterdam society doctor, highly intelligent but neurotic and febrile, who is unprovably guilty of murder. In a long series of informal conversations, Van der Valk, in effect, kills the man with kindness and understanding, finally inveigling him into admitting his crime by laying bare the poverty...