Word: municipales
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By last week his fear seemed uncomfortably close to reality. As temperatures rose unseasonably into the nineties, gangs of roving youths in white and black neighborhoods stoned more cars. A 17-year-old mentally retarded girl was struck in the face when a gang of blacks surrounded a car driven...
San Franciscans have endured two municipal employees' strikes in the past two years (the most recent was a three-day-long police and firemen's walkout last August), and were ready to cope. Traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge was tied up for extended rush hours but never...
Blackjack Games. As 300 strikers picketed city hall last week, a scuffle broke out between them and office workers who tried to cross the lines. A city worker was punched by strikers as he crossed a picket line, a municipal judge was thrown to the sidewalk, and police finally had...
City officials, who keep a close watch on the Souris, have followed a carefully rehearsed plan in preparing for the floods. A well-staffed flood control center, resembling a military command post, was set up to begin coordinating an evacuation system and dike patrol. National Guardsmen and personnel from the...
It did not happen-not, at least, during the war. In retrospect, that is remarkable. In 1776 there were no municipal police forces and almost no prisons. If a person was the victim of a crime, he would have to find and even apprehend the offender himself. There were sheriffs...