Word: tomakomai
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...they cannot even arrest a drunk until he hits someone. 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...
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