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...Yale Police Chief James Perrotti attributed the increased police activity to a new polic detail dedicated to "panhandling and public drunkenness....The detail was not established to monitor underage drinking and alcohol purchases, Perrotti said, though Yale students have happened to 'cross its path...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Cops: Less Cool Than We Thought | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...morning some guards came in and when I wouldn't stand up straight, threw me on the floor where I remained in a catatonic state. After four back-breaking hours shivering on the cell floor I was carried on the shoulders of two guards to a Secret Polic Captain for interrogation. I remained limp except for the cold spasms running through my body while they dumped alcohol and ice water over me to revive me, all the while making remarks about the war in Vietnam and the "world gendarmes of the U.S." Finally I was carried to another partly bare...

Author: By Lyle Jenkins, | Title: "Please Free Elizabeth" | 10/19/1971 | See Source »

...embassy, they found on guard rows of red-capped Policía Armada, the heavy-handed troopers Franco employs to keep order in the cities. Sure of official sanction, the students surged on. The jittery police lost their heads. Brandishing heavy rubber truncheons, they laid open heads, clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Escaping Steam | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...police headquarters, the jefe de policía was torn between awe of the duke and admiration for the popular torero. Said the jefe: "After all, there is one solution-marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Love in the Afternoon | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

There seems to be a real reason for the oft roiterated cry for a more perfect union of national forces; about 50 per cent of the common people appear to be apathetic toward the Japanese imperialistic polic in Asia. Furthermore, the controlled press is quite willing to admit that the Japanese financial position is very precarious at the present time...

Author: By Malcolm R. Wilkey, | Title: Harvard Undergraduate Describes Signs in Japan that "China Incident" Is Real War | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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