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Last week, after five hours' deliberation, the jury acquitted Flanagan of all charges. He quickly dropped his disguise. Off came the jacket, up flew the right arm in a clenched-fist salute. "Boom power to the Weathermen!" cried Flanagan. "I don't have to play the Man's game any more. Law-and-order in Chicago is a farce. I want to go back to the streets and fight." New Yorkers will not be cheered by Flanagan's parting words. With his arm around his girl friend he proclaimed: "I'm going home to make...
...captors in a grisly gun battle with police. Black Panther Huey Newton, freed on $50,000 bail while awaiting a new trial for voluntary manslaughter, had absurdly venomous words for the system that had jailed him and then set him free. To a crowd of at least 500 clenched-fist supporters in Oakland, he shouted: "The Gestapo has promised that they will crush us!" Appropriately enough, at a meeting of state chief justices in St. Louis, Chief Justice Warren Burger pleaded for order in the court. Traditional courtroom discipline, he said, is "the absolutely imperative lubricant for an inherently contentious...
...return, his former conversant and would-be educator shouted "Hey man, its not this" and he raised a "V." "It's this." Quickly, he uplifted a fist into the biting, post-curfew night air. The student looked for a second, returned the upheld fist gesture, inhaled deeply, and sprinted across Mass. Ave. disappearing into...
...Authority bonds. The man who engineered the transaction, New York Attorney Victor Rabinowitz, said he intends to use the method to free some of the remaining ten Panthers. As for Joan, she embraced her mother upon leaving the Women's House of Detention, then whipped off a clenched-fist salute...
...factions. Down an intersecting street came the coffin, weeping widow and keening friends of Henry McIlhone, the riot's only Catholic victim. The British soldiers quickly detoured McCurrie's cortege, but not before the two groups of mourners had caught sight of one another. There were jeers, fist shakings and muffled epithets like "Bloody Prods" and "Dirty Papists...