Word: plainclothesmen
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...tripped prettily off Viasa Flight 737 with her fiancé, and was walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...
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...