Word: plainclothesmen
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...commandos moved through the building, four gun-toting plainclothes officers entered the emergency ward, ordering patients, doctors and nurses to lie facedown on the floor. When the commandos broke into the ward, they shot and killed the plainclothesmen, apparently mistaking them for armed unionists. A fifth death came when a female patient in the intensive-care unit died of a heart attack. The strikers claimed that she had been left unattended when doctors and nurses were rounded up by the commandos. Asked one union member: ! "If this is the democracy that we workers voted for, why are they treating...
...been in touch with the Harvard Police and they're following it [the crimes]," said Jeffrey Wolcowitz, senior tutor at Dunster "We've been told they're placing plainclothesmen in the vicinity of the House...
...doubtless give his sermons wide distribution among Soviets. Graham also took note of how difficult it is for Soviets to display their faith. In his usual appeal for public commitments to Jesus Christ, he asked his Baptist listeners in Leningrad to raise their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down to our sides. We are like prisoners. It is hard for us to lift our souls to God." - By Richard N. Ostling...
When asked by an American reporter about the young Christian woman who was whisked away by plainclothesmen security (KGB) after unfurling one of the banners, Rev. Graham had this...
Unseen by the audience, half a dozen plainclothesmen, some armed with light antitank weapons, stood between the President and a column of tanks. South Korea's President had not forgotten that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed last October during a military parade. "Since Sadat," said one U.S. observer, "these military exercises make some folks nervous...