Word: decoys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parked car. They exchanged greetings and Howe told the women he was looking for a party. After some brief conversation Howe realized that the women were not the people who were supposed to meet him. He told them he thought they looked familiar and wondered if they were police decoys. (Salt Lake's decoy program had been well-publicized for years.) The women denied that they were decoys until one recognized Howe as her congressman. She said that the two of them worked as airport security guards during the day and that she had seen Howe at the airport...
...Washington, D.C., plainclothes policewoman contended that Louisiana Democratic Congressman Joe Waggon-ner Jr. drove up in his car and offered to pay her $50 for an oral sex act. Utah Democratic Congressman Allan Howe allegedly approached two Salt Lake City police decoy prostitutes and promised them $20 if they would show him "a little fun" at their place. Former Judge (and failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee) G. Harrold Carswell has been indicted on charges of making advances to a vice-squad policeman in Tallahassee, Fla. Dallas police have accused ex-Army Major General (and right-wing activist) Edwin Walker...
...French cops know something Doyle does not. They are aware that he has been set up, that the French and American police forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...
...potential demonstrators off balance, the T.U.C. would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...
Every able-bodied citizen on Quemoy is issued his own rifle and must visit a firing range for target practice at least once a month. Women also must serve in the militia. There are a number of dummy soldiers, too, who bravely man fake machine guns to decoy Communist spotters. Privately, though, even some government officials concede that the mountain of military hardware may not be necessary, and that unification with the mainland may be inevitable. Back on Taiwan, where younger bureaucrats and even some young legislators are quietly discussing the changes that will come when Mao and Chiang...