Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Temperature. To leave things as they are is to leave Cyprus stalked by terror, rent by hatred, and engulfed by fear. In the past month six British civilians, nine British soldiers, 13 Greek Cypriots and three Turk Cypriot policemen have been killed-one a day since Britain, over Greek objections, began enforcing its "partnership" plan, dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots in separate legislatures...
...policemen are watching for offenders on the streets, but so far everyone is complying with the law," a spokesman for the Cambridge police department commented...
...More than 450 gangs (with a membership of 12,000) roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations just to prove they have not beaten anyone up. The mere suggestion of brutality can mean loss of pay or demotion...
That night some of the defendants, black and white together, gathered at a house for a little celebration. Policemen raided the place, acting under a South African law that forbids serving liquor to nonwhites. Meanwhile, the government announced that because the defendants had not yet, during the long preliminary hearings, pleaded either guilty or not guilty, a new indictment would be filed. The 91 defendants were right back where they were nine months...
...square a great movement of blue and glittering brass stiffened to attention. A whistle blew and the hundred members of the Saint William's Catholic Youth Organization Champion Band marched up the street, blasting their way through the Washington Post March. Half a dozen puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting...