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...agents, and the police began gathering information that would stand up in court. Statistically, the new approach has been a success. Since November, more than 300 quarter houses and shooting galleries have been closed, and 1,600 arrests have resulted in 1,432 cases brought to trial. Still, as Sergeant Sam Campbell, chief of the Fifth Precinct's narcotics squad, admits: "We haven't begun to control heroin...
...tactical squad members who were standing outside in the parking lot-probably fondling motorcycles-maced a whole cell full of kids though the window for a joke. All down the cellblock word was passed and we began screaming and beating on the metal walls of the cells. And a sergeant came running down the cellblock at that moment, throwing cigarettes-which we had wanted all day-into the cells at us, telling us to calm down and that everything would be all right. And if it were fascism, there would be no cigarettes, and we would all be maced whenever...
...Sergeant Dwight Johnson, whose heroics in Viet Nam verged on the suicidal, required psychiatric treatment on his return, then was fatally wounded when he tried to hold up a Detroit drive-in grocery store...
...good reasons for signing it." Cuba's two ablest home-grown rulers were the tyrants who followed Zayas. When Dictator Gerardo Machado (1925-33) snuffed out constitutional democracy, he had student and labor leaders thrown to the sharks off Morro Castle. After ex-Army Sergeant Fulgencio Batista took over in 1934, he remained, both in and out of office, the dominant figure in Cuban political life until the advent of Fidel Castro...
...tactical squad members who were standing outside in the parking lot-probably fondling motorcycles-maced a whole coll full of kids through the window for a joke. All down the cellblock word was passed and we began screaming and beating on the metal walls of the cells. And a sergeant came running down the cellblock, at that moment, throwing cigarettes-which we had wanted all day-into the cells at us, telling us to calm down and that everything would be all right. And if it were fascism, there would be no cigarettes, and we would all be maced whenever...