Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police were not unhappy. Daley had prepared them last April, in the wake of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, when he ordered the cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists and to "shoot to maim or cripple" looters. Chicago police theoretically receive regular in-service riot training, but in fact the training consists largely of reading general departmental orders rather than intensive drilling...
Afraid that antiwar demonstrators might paralyze the Democratic National Convention, Mayor Richard Daley, author of last April's notorious shoot-tokill edict, prepared for full-scale insurrection. "No one," he vowed, "is going to take over the streets." The entire police force, nearly 12,000 men, was ordered onto twelve-hour shifts; 5,650 Illinois National Guardsmen were called up for possible reinforcement, and 5,000 more Guardsmen have been put on alert; 7,000 Army troops were preparing to move in. Logistical units were already in place...
...Lester Maddox-and three of the del egations were staying. Other agents were on round-the-clock duty outside the candidates' suites, checking passengers debarking from elevators. The Sheraton-Blackstone across the street, where Senator George McGovern was billeted, got equal protection. Press photographers were warned not to shoot pictures through open windows lest they be mistaken for snipers...
...appeared. The airport officials refused to supply the Soviet planes with fuel. At nearby Pardubice airport, the Russians had to set up their own control tower after Czechoslovak air force officers re fused to guide the arriving armada down to the landing strip. Forbidden by the Dubcek government to shoot back at the overwhelming force of invaders, the Czechoslovaks, from high army officers down to shoeshine boys, quickly established a principle and stuck to it through the days that followed: anything that the Warsaw Pact intruders wanted done they must do themselves. With few exceptions, the invaders found no collaborators...
...concern for a Pontiff's safety. As always on foreign trips, Paul was accompanied by his bodyguard, Colonel Spartaco Angelini, commander of the Pontifical Gendarmerie, the Vatican police force. Angelini carried a 7.65-mm. Beretta in a shoulder holster, and under his own standing orders was prepared to shoot to kill to defend the Pope. At least 1,000 white-gloved, white-helmeted Colombian military policemen patrolled the Campo Eucanstico with rifles and submachine guns...