Word: antiriot
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...reply was the clicking of rifle bolts as the cops advanced. Ten yards from the marchers, they halted, donned gas masks. There was a pop, a thud, a flash of orange, then a smoky cloud. Soon, dozens of red, white and blue canisters loaded with tear gas and an antiriot irritant were sailing smack into the mob. Marchers scattered in confusion and pain...
...ELECTRICITY. Charged car bodies are a natural outgrowth of the cattle prods already popular in law-and-order circles. All persons touching the electrified car or touched by it will get painful shocks. Occupants of the car will be immune. A further extension of antiriot electronics is an electrified water stream that deals out high-voltage shocks to anyone it hits. "Ranges up to 150 ft.," says the colonel, "are considered possible...
...Nicosia hospital was fledgling writer and Royal Horse Guards Subaltern Auberon Alexander Waugh, 18, eldest son of pawky Satirist Evelyn Waugh (who like son served with the famed "Blues," during World War II), after being wounded in a shooting accident following antiriot operations in troubled Cyprus...
...report came, McElroy was in conference with the Joint Chiefs. The Army's Maxwell Taylor arose, asked McElroy crisply: "May I use your phone?" Permission granted, Taylor snapped out orders for the joist Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. to alert two companies. Equipment: "Packet A" -i.e., antiriot weapons, such as billy clubs and tear...