The New York Times Daily Sudoku 2024-11-24 Medium 
Governor George Busbee speaks at podium at news conference. Reporter’s voice says it was last Thursday. He talks about pulling fifty patrolmen off the road and having people killed on the highways. We are making a sacrifice to bring the patrolmen off the highways. It’s a balance, he explains, if he pulls law enforcement from one area of the state to another. Next scene is Busbee at his news conference this morning, says reporter. Busbee says that his executive secretary, Tom Purdue, has been in communication with Commissioner Brown and Chief Napper with an offer of temporary assistance. What happened between last Thursday and today to change his mind, explains reporter’s voiceover, was the article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Headline reads, “Fading Image: Crime Wave in Atlanta Threatens Bid to Lure Business, Conventions. Demoralized Police Adding to Old Urban Problems: Visiting Doctor’s Murder. ‘It’s a War Zone Down There.'” (vol. CXCIV No. 27 is the newspaper’s volume and issue). The governor is clearly worried about its effect on business, says reporter’s voice. Busbee at today’s news conference continues speaking, “we have indeed suffered a temporary setback, a black eye, which has been given the very widest circulation by our competitors for new regional and home offices of capital investment. Reporter speaks in front of Atlanta City Hall, saying, so, last night, one of the governor’s aides asked someone in the mayor’s office if the city wanted the state’s help. The governor’s statement clearly took city hall by surprise. Mayor Jackson had hoped for another twenty-four hours to mull over Busbee’s offer. Jackson hastily called a news conference, because the governor had put him on the spot, says reporter’s voice as Mayor Jackson approaches a desk set up with microphones. Mayor Jackson says, “it is likely that when we make the request of the state, it will be a request that will center on the state patrol relieving our police officers who are involved in traffic matters, thereby freeing up city of Atlanta police who are trained to police the city.” Reporter’s voice explains that Jackson said he would likely accept help from undercover GBI agents to beef up investigations of Atlanta’s illegal narcotics trade. A definite answer will come by Monday, but Jackson wants more, says reporter. He wants Busbee to help him strengthen Georgia’s handgun laws which the Mayor claims are partly to blame for the city’s crime problem. We see guns laid out in a gun shop and two black man sitting on a lawn. One drinks from a bottle of liquor. And he wants Busbee to lean on the legislature, continues reporter’s voice, for money to treat drunks who are picked up in public, but that is all down the road. The immediate assistance, if it is formally asked for, will come from sixty state patrol officers riding in thirty cars. Camera rides inside a state trooper car with close-up of trooper’s face wearing his state trooper brimmed hat. They could remain on duty with the city for months. Police car drives on street and turns into parking lot.
Reporter: Kauff, Dennis
The Pulse of Washington D.C.
