Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Married. Katharine Lindsay, 19, daughter of New York Mayor John Lindsay and a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania; and Richard Schaffer, 23, a 1969 graduate of the Wharton School of Finance; in a civil ceremony at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence in Manhattan...
...officials took steps to be prepared for any future disturbances. At the suggestion of then-Attorney General Arthur Sills, police began compiling detailed dossiers on people taking part in demonstrations, even when the demonstrators violated no laws. The surveillance was promptly challenged by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Arguing that police intelligence-gathering activities would "intimidate and harass" demonstrators, the A.C.L.U. asked a superior court judge to order the investigations stopped, the dossiers destroyed...
Classified Demonstrations. The high court did, however, order a lower-court hearing on the scope of police surveillance and the relevancy of the material being gathered to a proper police function. Thus, civil-liberties groups still hope to narrow the scope of intelligence activities. The police now compile their data on two forms. One classifies demonstrations as pacifist, religious, right-wing, leftwing, civil rights, militant, nationalistic, black power, Ku Klux Klan and extremist. The second form is less vague, potentially more dangerous. It covers the people attending or taking part in demonstrations and calls for information on their families, employers...
Irrelevant Intelligence. Few lawyers question the basic duty of the police to identify and investigate potential sources of trouble. What bothers civil libertarians is the gathering of such apparently unnecessary intelligence as credit reports and marital data and its indiscriminate distribution and use. Their concern is valid. The Army's domestic intelligence unit has neither the time nor the personnel to verify most of the information in its voluminous files, yet shares it with several agencies responsible for security clearances...
...called for an advertising boycott against the "leftist management of the fishwrappers," urged readers to stop buying the papers until they "apologize to the people of Georgia," and announced that he would picket the papers' offices. Maddox acknowledged that his boycott and picketing gambits were inspired by the civil rights movement. "If it works for them," he said, "I think it will work much better for me because I'm right...