| The opening took place during the panic, with plainclothesmen and eight detective-bureau squads guarding the bejewelled patrons against robbers, rioters, and the mobsters who more or less ran the city. |
| She found him in the bar with two K. G. B. men and, under the guise of whispering a tender farewell to him, she told him where the French plainclothesmen were standing, a few feet away. |
| The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador. |
| Although the plainclothesmen were always there, nobody approached me, and there was no effort to kick me out of Beidaihe. |
| They are usually picked up by plainclothesmen in four-wheel drives — sometimes there are policemen with them, sometimes not. |
| Repeatedly, small groups of demonstrators in central Cairo have been blocked by serried ranks of riot police, then charged, beaten and dragged off singly by young, club-wielding plainclothesmen. |
