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...Rome's Fiumicino Airport, Italian plainclothesmen arrest two Orientals on a flight from Bangkok, whose suitcases yield 44 lbs. of lumpy gray-brown No. 3 heroin, hidden in carvings of elephants, pagodas and lotus leaves...
...there are bicycle thefts three days in a row in the same area, plainclothesmen are sent there to watch it all day," Fennelly said...
...pillaging and rape, Detroit's black mayor, Coleman Young, belatedly rushed back from vacation and vowed last week, "We will not tolerate lawlessness in the streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police needed no further encouragement. Minutes after the curfew went into effect, plainclothesmen and uniformed cops were out in force, and anything that moved was fair game. At one point, a two-man team sighted three black youths on a dark street corner. "What are you doing out now?" demanded one cop as his partner covered the trio with a lethal-looking...
...Inquirer photographer trying to cross the line was attacked while a squad of police plainclothesmen nearby looked on silently. Fifteen minutes later another photographer was beaten. Again the plainclothesmen did nothing. No arrests were made. When several Inquirer staffers then asked the plainclothesmen to help them pass, the police warned the staffers that they would be arrested for assault if they tried to push their way in. On the police radio came orders that all cars were to avoid the Inquirer building area...
Suddenly the music stops. It is 2 a.m., and out of nowhere materialized uniformed policemen, plaid-jacketed plainclothesmen, and a searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...