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...WARRANT OFFICER CHRISTOPHER G. HUNT, 21, of San Jose, Calif., an Army helicopter pilot, currently operates out of Saigon airport, flying either a UH-1B "Huey," which staggers into the air carrying 6,000 rounds of machinegun ammunition and 14 rockets, or a "Hawg," a version of the Huey, which packs 48 rockets. Since last September, when Hunt arrived in Viet Nam, his outfit, the 197th Aviation Company, has suffered eight dead-out of a total complement of 160 officers...
...CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER MECKIE I. KEYS, 33, is a greying, 16-year Army veteran from St. Petersburg, Fla., where his wife and five children live. Twelve years ago, as a 1st sergeant in a tank battalion, Keys decided to move from turret to cockpit, enrolled in the Army's aviation school. Today he flies a lumbering Caribou transport out of Vungtau on the South China Sea, 40 miles southeast of Saigon...
Search & Seizure. In equally historic decisions, the court has forced all states to observe the full meaning of the Fourth Amendment ban against unreasonable search and seizure. Items: - Mapp v. Ohio (1961) ordered state courts to exclude evidence seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment. With no warrant, Cleveland police, hunting policy slips and a bombing suspect, had invaded the home of a woman named Dollree Mapp. The most the cops could uncover was "obscene materials," for possession of which Dollree was convicted. Upheld by the Supreme Court, she escaped further prosecution...
...provided Mapp's first test amid charges that the court had "handcuffed police." But Mapp forbade only "unreasonable" search and seizure: Ker upheld the right of Los Angeles police to make an arrest and seizure after they entered a narcotics-peddling couple's apartment without a warrant. The cops had "probable cause" to suspect what they would find. Appellants George and Diane Ker stayed in prison for possession of marijuana...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...