Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, only three blocks away at the 30-story modernistic headquarters of the Goldman, Sachs investment firm, another cops-and-robbers drama was played out. Federal agents quietly entered the 29th-floor office of Robert Freeman, 44, head of the company's arbitrage department. Freeman was arrested and escorted from...
In the course of the protest the crowd began to shower police assigned to protect the Klansmen with bottles and rocks. The cops responded with tear gas. As I ran from the gas, I passed a Black man slumped against a statue. He held a placard. Its message? "We Want...
We began to chant, and to sway back and forth. "Smash ROTC, No Expansion: Smash ROTC. No Expansion." The noise on the steps increased. Suddenly it swelled and I saw a surging tidal wave of baby blue helmets, and baby-blue jackets criss-crossed wildly by thick brown clubs. The...
On a chilly South Texas afternoon, 20 federal and state lawmen sporting flak jackets and semiautomatic rifles descended on a secluded bungalow near the Rio Grande in Starr County. They arrested three men who were darting out the back. Inside, the cops found giant trash bags of marijuana. Suddenly the...
The corrupting influence of drug money frequently leads to tensions between lawmen on opposite sides of the border. U.S. officials say rogue Mexican cops sometimes provide armed escorts for truckloads of dope moving north to the States. Mexican police have accused Starr's sheriff, Eugenio Falcon Jr., of invading a...