Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time laughing at my initial impression and its outrageous incongruity with the rest of my experience. Except for a small group of soldiers guarding the national monuments in Havana, which the government fears may be targets for counter-revolutionaries, Cuban streets were generally unpatrolled, even by policemen. Even so, there was little rowdiness or theft and no sense at all of the menacing atmosphere that enshrouds so many American cities...
...hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
Nonetheless, the issue of job security continues to preoccupy the police. While the number of uniformed policemen remains at 41, the administration continues to hire more watchmen and student security guards, who the police contend are taking over their duties and reducing potential officer hirings...
...prosecution dropped all charges against the priest. "The state extends a sincere apology to Father Pagano," said Delaware Attorney General Richard Gebelein. Yet several policemen still suspect Pagano. "I'm convinced that we had the right man," says one. "If I didn't think he did it, he wouldn't be here." The policemen point out that Clouser failed to pass a lie detector test when he declared his guilt...
...Hollywoodgate" was a condensed version of a Washington Post story. Minorities complain that Chandler cares more about covering Mexico than Hispanic East Los Angeles. In January for instance, the Times virtually ignored a story about the death of Eula Love, a black woman shot eight times by two policemen. More than three months later after Esquire mentioned the Times's omission, the paper printed a front-page story about the shooting. (The Times did run a piece by David Shaw last month confessing the Begelman and Love failures.) "I would be willing to make the investment on those communities...