Word: policewoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have "planned an attempt against me." The plotters had been armed and trained, Gaddafi claimed, by his enemies: the U.S., Britain and Sudan. He described the British, who broke diplomatic relations with his government last month after a gunman in the Libyan embassy in London shot and killed a policewoman during an anti-Gaddafi demonstration, as "barbarous, troublemaking exporters of terrorism." As for President Reagan, he is "the worst terrorist in the world...
...were carrying home the second and final contingents of British and Libyan diplomats, thereby ending an eleven-day war of nerves between the two countries. It had begun a week earlier when an unidentified man fired shots through the windows of the Libyan embassy in London, killing a British policewoman and wounding eleven Libyan dissidents gathered outside in St. James's Square...
...week was a tense and painful one for the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British public was outraged by the murder of the policewoman, Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and by the thought that the Libyan "diplomat" who had fired an automatic weapon into a crowd of anti-Gaddafi demonstrators should go unpunished. Even as the diplomats of the two countries were preparing to fly home on Friday afternoon, the funeral of Constable Fletcher was being held at the 13th century Salisbury Cathedral in southern England...
Granted, at the beginning everything seemed so simple. Together, Rome's councilman for the city police, Mario De Bartolo, and Policewoman Enrica Pirri, who had abandoned a job at a fashion house to do public relations for the Corps, developed the idea for a competition. Why not have Pirri's former colleagues design a replacement for the women's version of men's outfits-navy blue skirt instead of trousers and regulation jacket with a couple of bust darts added to accommodate anatomy? Five renowned Italian designers would be invited to submit prototypes. The prize would...
...stereotypical New York City policeman have much in common: both are Irish Catholic, beefy, outspoken and known to take a drop. Usually relations between the commentator and the constabulary have been fraternal. Last week, however, Breslin had the boys in blue seeing red. In denouncing the dismissal of a policewoman who posed nude for a skin magazine before becoming an officer, Breslin accused the police department of a double standard. "Wallowing in filthy sex" is common among officers, he charged...