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During the next year, a dozen officers each spent 200 hours of overtime in tailing Johnson. They arrested him five times on charges ranging from suspicion of theft to carrying a concealed weapon, but they failed to get a single conviction. Finally, the authorities assigned a black police recruit to infiltrate the commune-style house where Johnson lived. The rookie began chauffeuring Johnson around town, bought food and supplies for the house. The surveillance continued for two months, until the rookie reported that Johnson had given him a joint...
...fault principle is hardly new. Auto-insurance coverage for items such as theft, fire, storms, floods and the like has always provided for compensation without any debate over blame. The laws now under consideration would extend the practice to bodily injury or property-damage coverage, or both...
...rival and who apparently had Greek help in returning, has not been seen since he arrived, but old friends are disappearing into the Troodos mountains, and last month a store of guns was stolen from a local armory. Fourteen of Grivas' supporters have been charged with the theft...
Such crime-prevention tips are being offered to Southern California bankers by expert consultants-a group of ex-convicts who used to specialize in robbery, forgery and credit-card theft. They now are part of Project JOVE (an acronym for Job placement. On the job training, Vocational counseling, Education), which is a San Diego operation to help former prisoners find jobs and adjust to life outside...
...going inside the courtroom. The curtains were drawn to foil the aim of any potential sniper; in the dock, the defendant sat behind a bulletproof glass shield. Ordinarily, the charges would not have justified such stringent precautions, even though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify-and he had played roughly the role of C.W. Moss in the notorious gang of anarchist cutthroats organized by West Germany's Bonnie und Clyde...