Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oakland, Calif., elusive Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver was scheduled to appear for the setting of a trial date on charges resulting from the shooting of two Oakland policemen last April. But Cleaver, who disappeared in late November when his parole was revoked, failed to show up. That left his wife and five friends holding a verv empty bag. They have guaranteed Cleaver's $50,000 bail, and unless he emerges within six months, the money will be forfeited. As the FBI continued its search for Cleaver, the Internal Revenue Service entered the act. The IRS filed...
...angry mob of Negroes and stomped, hacked and shot to death. Sentenced to life in prison were Gail Madden, 22, a 250-pounder, whom witnesses identified as the woman in a bright orange dress who stomped Gleason, and George Merritt, 24, who attacked the officer with a meat cleaver. Five of those who were freed had been identified by a witness whose poor eyesight made his testimony worthless. During the trial, some witnesses recanted their testimonv, allegedly because of threats...
...year-end mail has brought ever-increasing numbers of reader-selected candidates. This year, as the sampling in the Letters column suggests, the variety of choice is greater than ever. Nominations have come in from all over the world. They range from Senator Robert Kennedy to Presidential Candidate Eldridge Cleaver, who is now a fugitive from justice. The crew of the US.S. Pueblo, Ho Chi Mmh, the Viet Cong guerrilla and the U.S. G,I. all received votes. Joe Namath, Charles de Gaulle, Bob Hope, Sirhan Sirhan, the non-hippie student, Richard Nixon, Alexander Dubcek, Abba Eban, Eartha Kitt, Lyndon...
Last week, just before the issue came to a vote, Alves rose to implore his colleagues to refuse "to turn over to a small group of extremists the cleaver for their beheading." One by one the 369 assembled Congressmen left their seats in Brasilia's modern Chamber of Deputies to deliver the ballots. When the count was in, the government had suffered a stunning defeat. Nearly 100 of Costa e Silva's followers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition. By a margin of 216 to 141, the deputies quashed the government's motion to lift...
...faction which will give the minority neither rights nor power. They see the figures of authority continually discredited by their acts and by their lack of action, by the police riot in Chicago, by their unwillingness to extricate themselves quickly from the war, by the attempt to reincarcerate Eldridge Cleaver, by the brutality of the police at the Columbia demonstrations, by the selection of a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President who was neither the choice of the people nor the winner of the primaries, by the credibility gap of the President, and finally by the correctness...