Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the side streets leading back from the Wall into East Berlin, the only humans in sight are the Vopo guards, dirty uniforms open at the neck, cigarettes dangling from their lips. Now and then an armored car full of East German officers races up for a snap inspection, obviously...
The Ring. Denver's burgling cops were well organized and enjoyed obvious advantages. They cased jobs from police cars, returned at night to steal while lookouts monitored the police radio for alarm calls. Once the burglaries were discovered, the same policemen came back officially to investigate, were able to...
In the Safeway burglary, the police knew that extra cash was in the store. The crooked cops carefully surveyed the one-story, yellow brick building during the day. A few nights later, three policemen jimmied the aluminum front door. A police car stopped across the street as lookout; one of...
The Failure. Last week, as the disgraced cops paraded before his disgusted gaze, at the State Capitol, Colorado's Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols, a onetime FBI man, explained that the ring had sprung from a single group in the south Denver district. When gang members were transferred to other...
Meanwhile, the East-West barrier in Berlin itself exploded with new violence. Now, for the first time, German police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to...