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Last week, in an unprecedented civil rights suit filed in federal district court in Philadelphia, the Justice Department accused Rizzo of pursuing just that kind of policy. The 28-page complaint charges the mayor, other top officials of the city and its 7,866-officer police department with following "procedures which result in widespread, arbitrary and unreasonable physical abuse or abuse which shocks the conscience." The suit accuses officers of systematically beating handcuffed prisoners, unjustifiably shooting unarmed suspects, "inflicting disproportionate abuse upon black persons and persons of Hispanic origin," and failing to investigate complaints of brutality...
RUDIGER DORNBUSCH, 37. While the Keynesians can flaunt the master's classic, General Theory, and the monetarists can flourish Milton Friedman's A Monetary History of the United States, the closest that the new economists have to such a tome is a 651-page text, Macroeconomics, by Dornbusch and Stanley Fischer, 35, both professors at M.I.T. Published in 1977, it has become the largest selling advanced economics text. The authors' central thesis reflects the new economists' nagging uncertainty about the omnipotence of their own profession. They contend that the complex computer models used to predict...
These exhortations were compiled by top-ranking police officers of Saitama prefecture, ten miles north of Tokyo. The sex directives are part of a 45-page code of conduct issued to 6,840 members of the Saitama police force. The handbook, which also includes strictures against drinking and bribe taking, was prompted by the rising crime rate among police in Japan. Following the rape-murder of a college student by a bachelor cop last year, one Tokyo newspaper sagely observed that despite the police force's proud record of professionalism, "under the uniform there is nothing but naked flesh...
Insurers for the airlines are understandably eager to head off the lawyers by getting to the next of kin first and offering them a quick settlement. A week after the Flight 191 crash, the insurer for American Airlines sent a three-page letter to the relatives of all the passengers. Extending his "sincere condolences" and detailing the insurers' plans to pay funeral expenses. Robert Alpert, vice president of the United States Aviation Underwriters, offered to settle any damage claims. Then came some pointed advice. "It is also our hope," wrote Alpert, "that you ultimately retain as much...
After three weeks of argument, U.S. District Judge Charles W. Joiner concluded that the school had not been as sympathetic as it should have been. In a 43-page opinion that is expected to serve as a precedent for other legal challenges, Joiner provided the first judicial acknowledgment that black English is a distinct dialect, not just slovenly talk, and ordered the Ann Arbor school district to prepare a plan for teaching black English speakers. Last week the district announced a $42,000 special program. All teachers at the King school will now be required to take "sensitivity courses...