Word: plainclothesmen
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Police are continuing to refine plans for controlling violence if it should occur. St. Louis plainclothesmen are ready to single out and arrest troublemakers. Houston Chief Herman Short is prepared to "meet force with overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
Reacting to rumors, the Business School called in extra squads of University police yesterday afternoon, including plainclothesmen, to guard against possible disruption and occupation by dissatisfied student strikers after the stadium rally...
...consisted of three Jeeps filled with South Vietnamese cops toting M-16 rifles, a fourth Jeep loaded with members of the presidential guard and armed with a .50-cal. machine gun, and the Premier's aging black Mercedes limousine. On both flanks, the cavalcade was guarded by plainclothesmen riding Hondas...
Nixon will stay at baronial Claridge's, not far from the U.S. embassy. The hotel's vaunted service will doubtless suffer. Scotland Yard already has plans afoot to infiltrate the staff with plainclothesmen disguised as waiters, news vendors, elevator operators and striped-pants front-desk functionaries...
Since the shocking twin murders of James ("Groovy") Hutchinson and Linda Fitzpatrick last year, Fink has set up a force of seasoned detectives to protect hippies from muggers, pushers and sex perverts who prey on them. Known as "the Hippie Squad," the plainclothesmen mingle with the hippies in their hangouts, usually grow their hair long, and have beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program...