Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous jewel robbery out West a couple of decades after the theft. His allies and enemies in an ever shifting set of alliances include an aging femme fatale, a spunky tomboy and her ex-con grandfather, a trio of murderous Indians, a small-town newspaper editor and a crooked policeman. The plot and mood are vaguely reminiscent of The Maltese Falcon, except that, yes, there is a treasure...
Inculturation often means nothing more controversial than transplanting the classic Bible stories into black-African settings. A white policeman accompanies Jesus to Calvary. The crucified Christ wears a crown of cactus thorns. The three Wise Men bear gifts of kola nuts and chickens. More saucily, South African linocut artist John Muafangejo shows Satan urinating in fear before an angel. Sometimes even modest experiments produce scandal. Cheap reproductions hang beneath the Stations of the Cross carved by Kanutu Chenge for a Catholic church near Lubumbashi, Zaire. They are there to appease a congregation shocked to see Pilate dressed as an African...
...Harris dropped him off at his motel around 10 p.m. Harris testified that they left the drive-in about midnight, with Adams driving Harris' stolen car. When police officer Robert Wood pulled the car over, Harris said, Adams pulled out a .22 pistol and fired five shots into the policeman. (It was later learned that Harris had previously stolen the weapon...
...Dallas police interrogated Harris after they heard that he had been boasting to friends about killing a policeman. Nonetheless, when Harris fingered Adams, the police believed him. Within six months, Adams was convicted and sentenced to die. Later Governor William Clements commuted his sentence to life...
...wiped out, some governments have declared war on illegal killing. In Kenya armed patrols have orders to shoot poachers. Sometimes, though, the culprits are a formidable force themselves. At Kenya's Tsavo National Park, scores of poachers dressed in battle fatigues and armed with automatic weapons killed one policeman and wounded several others...