Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge Police sent 40 patrolmen and 40 plainclothesmen to accompany the marchers who gathered on the Cambridge Common. At first, the policemen refused to allow all but ten of the marchers to walk through the Square, insisting that they would cause confusion and tie up traffic...
Quebec City was an armed camp. On roads leading into the French Canadian provincial capital, police flagged down motorists and searched their cars. The airport and railway station swarmed with plainclothesmen. On the cliffs overlooking the St. Lawrence River, khaki-clad Canadian army troops took their positions while Navy frogmen ran a final check for mines in the dock area of Wolfe's Cove. Yellow police barricades lined the city streets, and knots of helmeted riot police stood ready. Their orders were clear: all demonstrations were banned...
Then, ten years later, his name came up in testimony at the Ulm mass-murder trial, and West German investigators quietly began a closer look at his past. On a wintry day in January 1962, two plainclothesmen knocked on the door of Wolff's lakeside Munich villa and hauled him, protesting, off to jail. The charge: "Aiding and abetting murder in at least 300,000 instances...
...nose between a pair of aircraft chartered to ferry the last United Nations soldiers away from the Congo. From the hatch of the first-class compartment stepped a tall, plump man in a severe black suit, grinning like an African Fernandel. Burly, rifle-swinging Congolese cops and nervous Surete plainclothesmen hustled him into a black Chevy Impala with government plates, and off he sped into the flower-and sewage-scented dark. Thus last week with fanfare and foreboding did Moise Kapenda ("Moses the Beloved") Tshombe return to the Congo...
From the Soviet side, walking between two Russian plainclothesmen, came London Businessman Greville Wynne, 45, who last May had been sentenced to eight years as a spy. From the British side came Konon Trofimovich Molody, 40, alias Gordon Lonsdale, who had been sentenced in 1961 to 25 years on the same charge. Wynne and Molody merely glanced at each other. To the British agents, Wynne said, "Good morning. I'm glad to see you." Then, unable to contain himself, he flung his arms around them. The London Times, not sharing Wynne's elation, grumbled that Britain was getting...