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...special training at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. It is the FBI policy that only if the hostages seem in imminent danger of being killed is an attack normally ordered. While a specially trained FBI negotiator tries to lower the level of tension and assess the hostage taker's motives and weaknesses, other agents seek information that will let them develop a psychological profile of the criminal. What makes him angry? What grudges does he hold? Is he a loner...
Police departments disagree on whether authorities should make promises they do not intend to keep. "If you have to resort to lying to get people out, you lie," says a San Francisco officer. An Indiana sheriff would go further, saying of one hostage taker in a recent incident: "I'd have given him title to Hawaii." John L. Carey, president of the Indiana Bar Association, sharply disagrees, maintaining: "The government shouldn't give its word and then go back...
...received a U.S. visa in 1947 and settled in San Francisco. He recalls: "I had no commitments, no obligations, no money−nothing but opportunity." He made the most of it. To put himself through the University of California at Berkeley, he worked as a janitor, a movie ticket taker, a stagehand, a casino shill. After graduation, he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Within five years, he earned three degrees, including a Ph.D. in economics...
...changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose as gambling goes legit ? but anyone who hankers to bet on it can surely find a taker...
Repertory Gamut. For the past 16 years, however, he has managed to confine his energies to the Dallas Theater Center, where he has served as stagehand, ticket taker, director and actor, running the repertory gamut from Julius Caesar-he played Brutus-to A Streetcar Named Desire...