Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...selfless leader of his people and compared his message with that of Jesus, who said: "I came not to send peace but a sword." Despite a public clamor for revenge against Newton, who was accused of murdering a policeman during a Shootout in Oakland, he was convicted on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Now Garry, 60, is the top legal defender of other Panther leaders across the nation...
...obstructing Dean May, chanting, and keeping him from carrying on official business (a telephone call). But May charged only 25 of the students with these crimes. And in May's opinion, in fact, some of the charged students were guilty of more than chanting and linking arms, some of lesser offenses. A few including the chairmen of SDS and the leaders of the painters' helper campaign, were charged with all counts-from "entering the Office of the Dean of Harvard College without invitation" to "intervening with...the freedom of movement of the Dean of Harvard College by bodily resisting...