Word: dragnet
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...vast dragnet had at least one salutary effect: the capital's normally thriving crime rate was down 30%; there were simply too many cops on the streets. The police presence was also meant to prevent any follow-up terrorist attack, although that deterrent failed to stop Red Brigades gunmen in Turin from shooting and wounding Giovanni Picco, 46, the former Christian Democratic mayor...
...invent East-West spy thrillers in West Germany. Since the end of World War II, the country has provided the setting for real-life cases that match anything written by John Le Carré. Early last year Bonn's counter-intelligence service cast a fresh dragnet into the depths of West Germany's espionage underworld; as a result, 81 key East German agents and numerous smaller fry have been caught...
...society. His murder provoked a religious and political storm. The council of ulama, or scholars, of Cairo's Al Azhar University, the most venerable group of theologians in Islam, solemnly denounced the extremists for "violating the teachings of Islam" by killing a brother Muslim. Police, meanwhile, launched a dragnet that hauled in 190 sect members. At week's end Moustafa was nabbed by police and reportedly confessed to having ordered the assassination. A young bricklayer has admitted he shot Zahaby. But three bombs believed to have been set by the group exploded in Cairo, one injuring four people...
...everything. Never wrong, never out-foxed. Not even by the upper-crust criminals wearing Pierre Cardin suits who would sneer at the deductive efforts of the clod named Kojak. Until it was too late. And at the end, Kojak would permit himself a grim "gotcha" as the inevitable police dragnet closed in, even reaching to the hallowed environs of Central Park West...
...them seemed to equate with castration. The town market of Gauriganj was closed for a time because no one would come to it for fear of being nabbed by sterilization teams. In the village of Pipli, early-morning gunfire broke out last December when villagers resisted a sudden dragnet conducted by police squads seeking candidates for sterilization; later an official claimed that the village would be bombed if any outsiders learned of the incident...