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...police officers will protect and serve Cambridge on 10-speeds. The cops will respond to emergency calls and patrol the city, "just like normal cops, only on bikes," says Frank T. Pasquarello, a police spokesperson...
...sailboat St. Joseph, moored off a spit of land on the southern coast of Haiti, was quickly loading its human cargo. Suddenly the silence of the night was broken by the sound of an approaching military boat. At first the people on the sailboat froze in fear, hoping the patrol would pass. But when three shots rang out, the St. Joseph headed toward open water, its crew and passengers in panic. Rushing from one side to the other to get away from the gunfire, many people fell or were pushed overboard. Then, when the boat was a few hundred yards...
...explosions usually go off around dawn). A presidential study has concluded that virtually every retail trade booth, store, cafe and restaurant in the Russian capital pays protection money of up to 20% of gross receipts to organized crime. Resisters are beaten or killed. "In my 17 years on patrol," says police Lieut. Gennadi Groshikov, "I have never seen so much crime in Moscow; nor have I seen anything as vicious...
...solicitation in cyberspace for offers to make you rich overnight? Two states are taking on such Netscams. New Jersey regulators have ordered the author of an electronic chain letter to cease; he's claiming a $5 investment will return participants a fat $60,000. In Missouri the info-highway patrol has targeted an unlicensed stockbroker who "trades" unregistered stocks on the information highway. More than two dozen additional cases are currently under investigation in seven different states.parparWhat's the best scam you've seen in cyberspace? Enter your submission in the folder, NETSCAMS: CYBER SURFERS BEWARE. The author of what...
...problem is this: What happens after the initial cheering stops? Boasting only 7,000 men, a handful of armored personnel carriers and a few patrol boats, the Haitian military is, according to a Pentagon analyst, "a joke" that is more likely to surrender early and create a political problem than fight a guerrilla war. But after defeating the army -- which a Pentagon official estimates would be "finished up by dawn" -- the situation gets messy fast. Military force can be an effective tool for toppling regimes, but as a means of rebuilding societies, it is a blunt instrument...