A cynic might quip that the Norwegians must be hard up for heroes.
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It will be four months before the first class of 375 officers graduates from the new police academy and up to a year before the force is at full strength, and even then, one diplomat said, " they are going to be hard up for the kind of technology and know-how that the police in our countries take for granted ."
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Helped from his horse by aides, and with a tourniquet applied to stanch the bleeding, he removed the saddle nail himself and, mistaking its source, remarked wryly, " They must be hard up for ammunition when they throw such shot as that . " News of Armistead's mortal wounding was brought to Hancock by a member of his staff, Captain Henry H . Bingham.