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Glad ou asked that! Are TV's lady cops for real? By MARILYN AND HY GARDNER In those TV series depicting policewomen doing the jobs of policemen, are we supposed to believe that somtheir Angie are genuine? Or is it all one big ripoff? Doris Portland, Ore. Naturally a good deal of it must be fictional but also much of it is factual. Police chiefs readily admit that their policewomen are dedicated, courageous and effective officers. Take as an example assistant chief Anthony V. Bouza, commanding officer of the Bronx (N Field Services Area.

He has 80 women under his command, many on patrol performing the same duties given to their male counterparts lady cops number less than 3 per cent of all officers in the Bronx, they have amassed 64 medals for heroism or exceptional performance. They work around the clock in the worst ghettoes of the city and receive their assignments on the basis of a color-blind and sex-blind policy. They carry sidearms, even the five-shot, three-inch barrel model, carried on the Bouza proudly points out. the middle of this year the presence of women in police ranks had become commonplace, despite a substantial amount of resistance from men. The appearance of feminine first names on department reports or in news acoouhts of arrests or rescues was no longer a curiosity.

They were performing, gaining a grudging and very hard-won acceptance. As for the intrusion of sex (which TV series writers and producers inject to add glamor), Bouza observes: platonic but terrifically intense relationship is forged in the crucible of shared danger, as well as long hours and soul-revealing moments spent together. This relationship, when one of the Scenery delay halts Pearl Bailey's show BOSTON (UPI) Pearl road show ran into a dead end Friday when two of four large trucks packed with costumes and stage gear failed to show up after a cross-country trip alive and well in Boston and waiting for the the veteran actress said, announcing that Friday's opening performance at the Schubert Theater was called off SAT. NITE 9 30 to 1:30 RECORD HOP of the 50 A 60 i WOODY SELLERS I of fhe turntable Coming Diuo Sound 5 Sot Oct 25 this a weird she asked. can they be lost? It's not a Volk- wagen, you The show, with an all black cast, was a sell-out hit here for six weeks in 1967 PARTY Room Facilities OPEN DAILY FOR LUNCH I COUNTRY I TAVERN Rt.

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18, 1975 13 Chicano is first to star on TV HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Richard Yniguez beamed, exposing bright white teeth, as he said, is a television first for my He stars in Deadly an NBC-TV special (Oct. 18) in which he plays Ramiro Martinez, the hero of the University of Texas sniping incident in which 13 persons were slain. Yniguez is a handsome 29- year-old Californian who is delighted to have broken the Mexican-American mold in a dramatic television show am the first Chicano to play a major starring role in a national television he said, still beaming. there have been other Chicanos or Latins from South America who have had top roles But most of them are foreign bom is Fernando Iximas. Alejandro Rey.

Gilbert Roland and Ricardo Montalban. just to name a few. They all speak with Spanish accents Not me. And in my role as Martinez, the heroic policeman, the only accent I use is Texan last we have managed to break the cliche. I am playing a man.

not a caricature. It is only incidental that the character I play is a Yniguez belongs to a new breed of American Latins. He is young, ambitious and unwilling to settle for servience. He is dismayed that his people have not made a greater effort to assert themselves. are eight Puerto Ricans in television series right now.

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