Word: copse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi thought he knew where some of the blame lay for the crime and violence that has rocked Japan since the end of the war: it lay on the good intentions of U.S. occupation reformers, and their determination to safeguard the Japanese against intimidating cops.
A few days later President Alberto Lleras Camargo called Rojas' bluff. Troops and cops rumbled up in tanks and halftracks, sealed off a 60-block area around Roias' residence. A police colonel and a squad of soldiers hustled the ex-dictator off to a nearby office building, where...
On the day of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, the army commander in central Israel ordered a 5 p.m. curfew enforced in Arab villages near the Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that...
With such manpower on tap, the Japanese press can turn loose hordes of newsmen, gives the cops more trouble than the rioters at demonstrations. Japanese photographers vault graves and straddle coffins to get good shots of mass funerals. A reporter once got into Premier Nobusuke Kishi's bedroom. In...
Good Morning, Professor. Provincial Criminal Investigation Director Benito Ibanez listened to the gossip and sent a few men around for a routine snoop. When they got nowhere Ibaez sallied forth with 70 armed cops and barged into the larger of the two houses gun in hand, ready for anything. Not...