Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blackout is easier to follow than Kafka's story line, but Welles keeps right on its tail. One fine morning, "without having done anything wrong," a bank clerk named Joseph K. (Tony Perkins) is arrested-or is it all just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested...
Agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Atlanta and airport police carefully checked Atlanta Municipal Airport before Warren's commercial airliner landed last week. Two police cruisers followed the limousine that took him to the Biltmore Hotel. Next day eight uniformed Pinkerton guards, five plainclothesmen and six state and local security cops screened the crowd at Tech's Alexander Memorial coliseum...
...never better. There is no more demanding job in diplomacy than representing the U.S. in what, ideologically at least, is enemy territory. The grimy, grey ten-story U.S. embassy is always under siege. From nearby apartments all visitors are watched. The embassy staff is permanent prey for Soviet plainclothesmen (even children's outings are sometimes shadowed by police), and telephone "bugs" in offices and homes are taken for granted. Though social contacts with Russian officials have become easier in the Thompson years, the tiny (about 200) U.S. diplomatic colony still lives and works in oppressive isolation...
...last week as a carload of plainclothes police pulled up at No. 25. The six-story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish in the sea," almost one year to the day since his arrival...
...parole, for, as one Yugoslav exile put it, "his life is politics. You might as well ask him to stop breathing." Last week, incorrigibly still breathing politics, Djilas, 51, was arrested for the fourth time in seven years. In bed when policemen knocked, Djilas shaved and dressed while three plainclothesmen and an investigating judge ransacked his apartment, seized some papers and manuscripts. Then Tito's onetime possible successor was whisked off to jail. The likely charge (under a new law specifically designed for people like Djilas and rushed through last month): publishing memoirs containing information damaging to the state...