Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The secret yielded by code No. 3 was a Soviet spy ring linked with many a respected name in army and police circles. Premier Fazlollah Zahedi himself ordered the arrest of his chief of bodyguard as a Soviet agent. Another prize catch: Lieut. Colonel Jamsheed Mobasheri, an artillery officer regarded...
One of the cases on which the police were working was that of an old derelict who had been beaten up by two boys. One of the boys had red hair. The detectives' patrol was interrupted by two vagrants who ran out of the "park" (actually a paved space...
For 15 minutes he talked to the man, finally convinced him not to jump. Then Wendlinger turned his camera over to a cop, extended a helping hand to the man and guided him to other waiting cops, who brought him down. Bridge Expert Wendlinger made only one mistake; he was...
The Goan cops locked up their guardhouse, slung their rifles on their shoulders and trudged along after the liberators. The dog followed. Soaked to the skin, the strange procession walked on through the deserted countryside (the Portuguese had evacuated people from villages near the border, to prevent demonstrations). The weary...
Life of a Balloon. More afraid of his friends than of his enemies, Mussolini began to do his utmost to appease the friends. As Biographer Monelli sees it. he was terrified into terrorizing Italy. In 1925, "the Fascist regime became a regime of force," all opposition was suppressed, total censorship...