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...with steaks and roasts from a meat market on 125th Street in Harlem. At an appliance store on 105th Street, two boys about ten years old staggered along with a TV set, while a woman strolled by with three radios. "It's the night of the animals," said Police Sergeant Robert Murphy, who wore a Day-Glo blue riot helmet. "You grab four or five, and a hundred take their place. We come to a scene, and people who aren't looting whistle to warn the others. All we can do is chase people away from a store, and they...
Seattle even has a one-family gang: seven brothers, eleven to 20, who have been arrested 192 times in the past nine years. Enough of the boys are always at liberty to keep up the family tradition. Says Seattle Police Sergeant Dick Ramon: "The frightening thing is that they're going to continue producing misery for years and years...
...operating budget is a mere $25 million a year, and the French have never seen fit to provide a development budget. But they pay their own people extraordinarily well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti can make nearly $20,000 a year, up to four times what he might earn in France. "They come here to serve their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent who has lived...
...election-night rallies in the fashionable Fontainebleau and Dupont Plaza hotels, gay leaders were defiant and angry in defeat. Some homosexuals hugged and kissed in front of the cameras. One of the leaders was Leonard Matlovich, a Viet Nam War hero and the former Air Force sergeant who deliberately provoked a discharge in 1975 to challenge the service's right to dismiss a man for homosexuality (TIME cover. Sept. 8. 1975). Matlovich led a crowd of followers singing a version of We Shall Overcome and launched into Anita Bryant's favorite tune. Battle Hymn of the Republic...
Many gay leaders claimed that Bryant had united them for the first time-the battle, they said, was "the Selma" of the movement.* Sergeant Matlovich, however, warned that "stormy times are ahead. I fear repression. Some gays are going to have to be prepared to make sacrifices-even...