Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NIGHT WATCH by Mikhail Kurayev (Novy Mir, No. 2, 1989). A fascinating journey inside the mind of a fictional secret policeman, Comrade Polubolotov, who helped carry out the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s but insists he was merely "a soldier...
...matter of national security and gets a helping hand from Dashiell Hammett on a spree. The volume is one of the sprightliest in the series built around Peters but is overshadowed by A Cold Red Sunrise (Scribner's; 210 pages; $15.95), which features Kaminsky's other recurring detective, Soviet policeman Porfiry Rostnikov. That sly and assiduous investigator is dispatched to Siberia to look into the killing of another officer, who in turn was probing the killing of the daughter of a prominent dissident. Despite the smallness and privation of the village, Rostnikov unearths a wealth of believably evoked secrets...
...Maldives strike that best illustrated India's proclivity to take on the role of regional policeman. If the affair provoked unease among India's neighbors -- Pakistan accused New Delhi of having stage-managed the coup attempt -- it garnered approval in more distant quarters. Ronald Reagan, then in the White House, congratulated New Delhi for a "valuable contribution to regional stability...
...Columbus took off 20 minutes behind schedule last Thursday. He was already twelve years late leaving Dallas County, Texas, which he says had become his "hell on earth." In 1976, several weeks after Adams found a job repairing pallets, he was arrested for the slaying of a Dallas policeman. At one point, with only three days to spare, he was saved from execution by a U.S. Supreme Court stay while the Justices considered a legal technicality...
...after running out of gas. The two went to a drive-in movie. Adams claims Harris dropped him off at his motel room a little before 10 p.m., but Harris said the two tooled around Dallas with Adams driving until well after midnight. When they were stopped by a policeman, Harris claimed, he hunched down in the passenger seat as Adams pulled out a .22-cal. pistol and shot officer Robert Wood dead...