Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bodies were left in sun-speckled streets as police warnings. One Santiago cop of the Batista regime, trying to break down a rebel woman, brought one of her brother's eyeballs on a platter to her cell. Other rebels were forced to watch their wives raped by cops. A U.S. resident of Santiago, who chanced upon Police Chief Rafael Salas Canizares shooting four young rebels dead in the street, reported: "He was in a state of maniacal ecstasy-face flushed, eyes bright, breathing hard...
...dreaded Military Intelligence Service counter-terrorized Cuba by killing suspected underground members, leaving their bodies on busy sidewalks to be seen by stenographers going to work. In reprisal a Santiago mother placed a wreath at night on the exact spot where her son was slain. An arrogant cop kicked the flowers away next morning and was blown to bits by the bomb beneath...
Playwright Allen Boretz has brought back an old acquaintance: the honest cop victimized by politics and the fickle citizenry; with Edmond O'Brien, Jack Warden...
Drum Song. In Port Washington, Wis., W. F. Walford, filing a $600 claim against Ozaukee County, said that he had to buy a hearing aid after a highway cop pulled alongside and deafened him with a siren...
...commissioner was frozen, all right -but with pure anger. Barked Tough Cop Kennedy, who brooks no doubt about his responsibility and authority: "If the police are unionized, I advise the people not to waste their money paying the police commissioner a salary. Hoffa would be the police commissioner, so why waste the money?" Said the hard-boiled Daily News: "Public opinion will approve overwhelmingly any steps-repeat any steps-Commissioner Kennedy may take to crush this attempt." At City Hall, Mayor Robert Wagner found his voice, pounded his desk, called Feinstein's announcement "dastardly" and a "disgrace," promised...