Word: plainclothesmen
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...most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace, where the visitors were to stay, Parisian firemen stood watch on rooftops, and every chestnut tree shaded a cop or a detective. Public...
...several tense days before Madrid returned to an outward calm, plainclothesmen patrolled the streets, and thousands of grey-uniformed, Tommy gun-toting police stood by for instant duty. Foreigners were halted and asked to show proof of their identity. Prizewinning Cinema Director Juan Antonio Bardem (noted for his outspoken film Death of a Cyclist) was picked up while making a new picture with U.S. Filmactress Betsy (Marty) Blair, wife of Hollywood's Gene Kelly. While the Falangist newspaper Arriba hysterically blamed the "hostile foreign press" for instigating violence, Dictator Franco postponed his dearly loved annual deer and boar hunt...
...down, but next day Falangists and anti-Falangists clashed again. This time the Falangists pulled their pistols, but in the confused fighting managed only to wound one of their own sympathizers. At this point Franco stepped in, ordered all Falangists confined to barracks, and sent 1,400 heavily armed plainclothesmen into the streets with orders to break up disturbances by "shooting, if necessary...
...government announced cryptically that it was taking "fitting measures" to head off opposition "political manifestations'' in the huge Santamaria bull ring. The measures turned out to be novel as well as fitting: the regime bought $15,000 worth of tickets and distributed them to thousands of policemen, plainclothesmen and government employees. On bullfight day the official ticketholders were waved through the gates; other fans were carefully frisked for weapons...
...riot threat, made in an anonymous phone call to the Conservative Society, brought 16 New Haven plainclothesmen to the meeting...