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Graft, inefficiency and official indifference are epidemic. When a reporter last week questioned Marcos about incidents of police brutality during the riots, Wife Imelda answered: "What can you expect when all we can pay a policeman is 180 pesos [$45] a month? Of course you get barbarians...
...University policeman and an unidentified man in a plain dark suit stood at the entrance to the room where the Army representative was recruiting
...Products of the grim Appalachian hills, the three had drifted to Cleveland and failure. Gilly was once arrested for nonsupport of his family. Vealey was on parole from a burglary conviction. Martin was serving a 55-day term in the workhouse for assaulting a policeman...
Helmer, a Harvard policeman, and Joel Porte, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Quincy House, inspected rooms on the fourth and fifth floors of C and D entries that night, but they failed to find anything suspicious...
...sports world as well as the flush, sedentary set. While Jerome Cavanagh was mayor of Detroit, Dice occasionally dined at the mayoral residence. All the while, he seemed impervious to the normal hazards of his line of work. Local authorities were no problem, explained one federal official. "A policeman would see the people around Dawson-sports celebrities, the mayor, millionaires-and back off." La Cosa Nostra, which normally imposes a tax on gamblers outside its own organization, seemed as puzzled as the police about Dawson's activities, and left him alone...