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Pierre Tenegan is a wiry little man dressed in one permanent pair of bluejeans, a mangy checked lumber jacket, a 1950s ski hat and striped track shoes. He is the chief. His functions being primarily spontaneous, he preserves the peace by banishing drunken men to the hills behind the houses and stopping children from stampeding into the empty schoolroom or playing with the useless firehose that found its way in there along with four enormous pairs of fireman's boots. Gifts from the Great White Government. Out of the pouring rain, Pierre would bring in firewood for our stone-cold...
...robber wore a rust-colored jacket and his left hand was wrapped in an ace bandage, Karadizian told police...
...Kindness is not always rewarded. Two freshmen allowed a stranger to stay with them. They also provided him with a key to the room in case they were out when he wanted entry. He disappeared with the jacket belonging to one student and $45 belonging to another. The man was short of spending money...
...public-order squads and increasing the severity of punishment. But like its Western counterparts, the U.S.S.R. appears at a loss to slow its burgeoning incidence of crime, as at least one Westerner found out last week. On a sightseeing excursion to Leningrad, a salesman from Krimtekhnika-74 draped his jacket over a chair in a hotel bar and got up to dance. When he returned a few minutes later, the jacket -and about $850-had been stolen...
...quiet Sunday morning in early August when Viet Nam Veteran John Gabron, 22, went on his last patrol. Wearing an Army helmet liner and field jacket and carrying a telescopic rifle, he climbed a sagebrush-covered hill in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. When two park rangers approached in a pickup truck, Gabron captured them at rifle point. As one of the rangers told it later, Gabron explained that "he had lived by the gun and wanted...