Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, Hungarian plainclothesmen were waiting outside the U.S. legation in Budapest on the remote chance that the old man might emerge. There was no chance at all. Inside, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty thanked the legation staff for a bouquet of red and white carnations that celebrated his 75th birthday, stared briefly from his window at the Soviet war memorial in "Freedom Square" below, and continued the political exile that began during the uprising of 1956. The Hungarians have offered him amnesty, but Mindszenty refuses to leave his asylum, or his country, until the Communists clear him of the trumped-up charges...
...started boarding planes amidst a howling mob of angry Chinese. The Russians also retaliated in Moscow, where the Chinese embassy had mounted inside its compound a glassed-in display of photographs of police and students scuffling in what the Chinese called "The Bloody Incident in Red Square." Burly Soviet plainclothesmen chopped down the display case with axes and saws. When the Chinese rushed out to defend their art work, the cops pushed in a few diplomatic noses as well...
...Guards, stopped off to place a wreath on Stalin's grave, reading from their little red Mao-think books and singing Maoist hymns. The two onetime allies gave their own versions of what happened next. Said the Chinese: "A large number of Soviet troops, policemen and plainclothesmen attacked them from all sides and beat them up. More than 30 were injured, and more than ten of them were struck down. Four of them were critically injured." Said the Soviet government: "The Chinese students rudely violated the regulations for visits, resorted to force and engaged in provocative activities...
...then it was back to La Stella's for that delayed lunch: escarole in brodo, linguini in clam sauce, striped bass, and wine. And just to show no hard feelings, they even raised a glass and fork in toast to newsphotographers and to the D.A.'s plainclothesmen at the next table...
...traitors to the British Crown, the three Rhodesians who arrived in London last week technically faced the penalty of death by hanging. Instead, they were met at London Airport by plainclothesmen and whisked away to an obscure hotel. The three men were representatives of Ian Smith's rebellious white-minority government, and they came on a special safe-conduct dispensation to commence what the British press called "talks about talks," which Prime Minister Harold Wilson hoped might lead to Rhodesia's ending its six-month rebellion and rejoining the Commonwealth...