Word: maim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report: "The effect on the police became apparent several weeks later when they attacked demonstrators, bystanders and media representatives at a civic-center peace march...
...Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative...
...police were not unhappy. Daley had prepared them last April, in the wake of the riots following Martin Luther King's assassination, when he ordered the cops to "shoot to kill" arsonists and to "shoot to maim or cripple" looters. Chicago police theoretically receive regular in-service riot training, but in fact the training consists largely of reading general departmental orders rather than intensive drilling...
...races as L.B.J.'s former director of the Community Relations Service. "This isn't the same Collins who was Governor," he said, "and he helped to bring on the tragic lawlessness of today." Faircloth attacked the federal open-housing bill, praised Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's "maim or cripple" order for looters, and denounced the Administration for "coddling criminals and rioters...
...consider the matter. Angry as they are, most Congressmen now realize, like it or not, that higher taxes are mandatory if the economy and the dollar are to be saved. But like it or not, Lyndon Johnson also will have to bite the bullet and accept cutbacks that will maim some of his proudest programs...