Word: cordone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deem anyone a rioter who fails to obey a lawful order or provide requested assistance. The police are free to deputize onlookers, who will automatically be guiltless if any person present is subsequently killed or wounded, provided no malice or premeditation is involved. The law allows officers to cordon off any area, prohibit the sale of guns or alcohol, impose curfews, and enter private dwellings when in fresh pursuit of a rioter or when searching for firearms or explosives. Violation of any orders under the law can mean a fine of $500, six months in jail, or both...
...Hallice, organizer of the raid, continued his testimony from Monday. He said that municipal and Metropolitan District, police arrived at Memorial Hall at 4 a.m. Thursday and were given instructions "to remove certain individuals from University Hall who had gained entrance by force and violence." They were instructed to cordon off an area around University Hall to give the State Police "clear sailing" and to allow anyone to leave the area, but no one to enter...
Cambridge Police Lieutenant Daniel J. Desmond said that he was in charge of four police photographers assigned to the bust. McCarthy introduced into evidence three pictures of people being removed from the building, showing the police cordon leading into conveyance vehicles. Desmond said they were "a fair representation" of what he saw that...
Flym introduced into evidence a picture, which Desmond had brought into court but McCarthy had not introduced, showing a figure in a white sweater outside the building, outside the cordon through which occupants were being loaded into vans, but inside the police perimeter...
...that they produced no results. The Israeli sessions with Hussein at first seemed promising. Hussein agreed to Israeli construction of defense settlements overlooking the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as to a demilitarization of the West Bank area, but he rejected the idea of an Israeli cordon sanitaire along the West Bank. In turn, Israel accepted Hussein's demand that Palestinian refugees who fled the West Bank as a result of the 1967 war be allowed to return...