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Most of the diplomatic corps, including U.S. Ambassador H. Freeman Matthews, boycotted the airport reception; only 500 people turned up to watch Khrushchev bounce down the ramp all smiles. The scattered crowds on the streets to town barely outnumbered the 8,000 cops and nearly 1,000 plainclothesmen assigned to protect Khrushchev from Vienna's big refugee population. Since the Soviet press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same...
...confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis and private cars scarcely a block away. All week long, Kishi himself drove around Tokyo in a small sedan, followed by a single car with plainclothesmen. Because he always stopped obediently at traffic lights, no one noticed...
...first time, he found himself in a Western nation with a powerful Communist Party. But never before had France taken such precautions for an official visitor. More than half the effectives of the Paris Prefecture, including 3,000 plainclothesmen, were assigned to protect him. Along his route, 2,000 firemen stood guard on rooftops, and the Metro stations below his route had been closed for an hour while engineers tested them for hidden bombs. A noisy barrage of 64 motorcycle cops boxed in his limousine. Even if there had been no guards around him at all, there would stiH have...
Roundup. During Christmas week, police and plainclothesmen swarmed into De Walletjes and rounded up a collection of pimps with such names as Fat Rinus, Piglet and Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...
Time and again Khrushchev's motorcade of black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...