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...Hate-preaching demagogues took to the street corners, and raunchy radicals issued inflammatory broadsides. From a pro-Red China outfit called the Progressive Labor Movement came a handout that screeched insurrection: "Once again the cops have murdered one of our children. They have been killing about one black person a day in New York City. Lieut. Thomas Gilligan (remember that name) shot James once and James fell to the ground. This fascist cop stood over him and fired two more bullets into him. He then kicked the dead body. THIS is THE WAY THE FASCIST AND RACIST COPS OPERATE HERE...
They much preferred to hear leaders like CORE'S National Director James Farmer, who ambled through Harlem insisting all the while that he was really trying to soothe the people. "I saw the cops united against the black man," he told a church meeting. "I saw New York's night of Birmingham horror!" He claimed that he saw a cop draw his service revolver and deliberately shoot a woman in the groin (the woman was actually nicked in the thigh by a ricocheting bullet). "I saw the blood pouring off heads of men and women!'' Farmer...
Most Harlemites are convinced that the cops turn their backs on such rackets for a price. And this conviction vastly complicates the problem of policing Harlem. What happened last week, said the Rev. Richard A. Hildebrand, head of New York's N.A.A.C.P. chapter, was "the explosion of a total community resentment, deeply rooted in the absence of respect on the part of Harlem citizens for the cop on the beat, whom they see in far too many compromising situations...
...four-day period last week, terrorists in Caracas ambushed three policemen walking their beats, machine-gunned them to death; another cop was shot as he bicycled home from duty. What the F.A.L.N. was doing out in the countryside worried officials even more. Guerrilla bands have suddenly appeared in eight of Venezuela's 20 states. Last week, in a dozen skirmishes, the F.A.L.N. blew up an important highway bridge, attacked police patrols and national-guard posts, killing one and wounding two government...
...Securities and Exchange Commission, top cop of the U.S. stock markets, was led into its most active role in many years by its current chairman, William L. Gary. Ever since Gary made known his desire to return to his Columbia law professorship by this fall...