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Along came a policeman...
...minutes later and telephoned the management, which quickly summoned police. The officers interviewed victims and members of the hotel staff, and by around 9 a.m. narrowed the possible suspects to Aaron Legrand and Edward Steadley, who had checked into their first-floor room two days before. A policeman dressed as a bellboy went up to their room with the bill, and when one of the pair opened the door part way and asked him to slide it under the door, the officer, backed up by two other armed policemen, broke in and arrested the two men. They were later charged...
...generals' coup last November, and three weeks ago, he was placed under house arrest by the civilian regime of Premier Constantine Caramanlis. Nonetheless, Papadopoulos had planned to run for Parliament in elections later this month, and there were rumors that his political ambitions went much further. To the policeman who knocked on his door, the former strongman looked as if he assumed "that we were bringing good news...
...turned unwittingly onto Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...viewed myself as the policeman for our team," Bozer said. "Some of those Exeter boys thought they had something to prove against Harvard, and I wasn't going to let them intimidate us," he added...