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John W. Maillet, the police sergeant conducting the investigation, has apparently narrowed his list of suspects down to "one female acquaintance" of Strickland's, but he does not have enough evidence to make an arrest...
Detective Sergeant John W. Maillet said yesterday that he could not make an arrest yet "because we don`t know if we have enough evidence" to make a convincing case in court...
...planned protective reaction" strikes against installations that Lavelle felt threatened the safety of his crews simply by their existence. The phrase is, of course, an Orwellian contradiction in terms, and the actions were clearly against regulations. To justify and conceal that fact, an entire double-accounting system grew up. Sergeant Lonnie Franks, who first blew the whistle on Lavelle, claimed that he and 200 other officers and enlisted men often made out and passed along two sets of reports on unauthorized missions. One was truthful, and was filed; the other invented one of the three justifying hostile actions...
...guerrilla on the tarmac was killed. But the Arab leader, whom the police wanted to hit most of all, dived under a helicopter and fired back. His shots somehow knocked out the lights as well as the radio in the control tower. Ricocheting bullets also killed a Munich police sergeant who had crouched beside the control tower...
...occurred in his province on July 31. On that day, troops of the First Battalion of the "Tiger" Division's 26th Regiment were conducting a mopping-up operation. As the troops passed near Phu Long hamlet, they were fired upon by small arms. A platoon leader and a sergeant were killed. The Koreans dug in and, with the approval of the district chief, called for artillery and gunship support. When most of the houses in the hamlet had been demolished, the troops entered and "secured" the area. Among the dead: 21 civilians...