Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pack, a bundle of money that releases red dye and smoke as a signal after the robber leaves the premises. Here and there police forces are deploying special units to fight the epidemic. New York City has set up three task forces of cops, including one that puts plainclothesmen in banks that seem likely to be robbed...
With uniformed police, plainclothesmen and Port Authority officials surrounding the plane, Donald McHenry, Deputy U.S. Ambassador at the U.N., and a team of State Department and Immigration and Naturalization officials sought permission to question Vlasova. Soviet U.N. Ambassador Yevgeni Makeyev refused to allow the beleaguered ballerina off the aircraft. But on two occasions, two State Department officials were permitted aboard the plane, where they talked with Vlasova. Dressed in a snappy black jumpsuit, the dancer said she indeed desired to return home. "I love my husband. But he has made his decision to stay here, while I have made mine...
...most dramatic border incident in Derby Line occurred on July 14, 1976. Rifle-toting plainclothesmen suddenly appeared at every door and window of the town library, an imposing turn-of-the-century granite and brick structure just outside the center of town, and the only public building standing in the U.S. and Canada at the same time...
...them came with their wives: prime targets for the jewel thieves who prowl the better hotels. Security had to be beefed up; in addition to the Hilton's regular complement of 70 guards, the A.T.A. provided 35 officers. The New York police department detached some plainclothesmen and mounted patrolmen to monitor the portals. This was something of a departure for the N.Y.P.D., but the convention after all was expected to unload $3 million a day on the city. Hilton Chief Barren Hilton himself called the A.T.A. convention manager, Vaughn Bonham, to thank him for selecting the Hilton (a choice...
...Four weeks ago Düsseldorf police were summoned to a restaurant by a diner who had recognized Willy Peter Stoll, a suspect in the Schleyer case. Stoll was killed in a shootout with plainclothesmen. A few days later suspicious neighbors called police to an apartment where they found Stoll's crudely coded diary, an arsenal of weapons (including a homemade "Stalin Organ" capable of firing primitive missiles) and fingerprints of six of Stoll's RAF comrades...