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...Roof. Next, Namboodiripad & Co. set out to cut down the authority of the Kerala state police force. "The police," said Namboodiripad, "have always been used to suppress mass movements of workers and peasants." He ordered them to stand on the sidelines except in cases of "murder, rape, arson or assault...
...civil rights bill had made a highly technical reference to a law of Reconstruction days that seemed to empower the President to use troops to enforce the law (a right he has, anyway). So forcefully had Russell's forces broadened this indelicate slip into a virtual rape of the South that everybody agreed it would be a good thing to vote it out of the bill-to "clarify the atmosphere," as Knowland put it. The atmosphere was clarified by a vote of 90 to 0. But so, to Lyndon Johnson, was the fact that Knowland was on the defensive...
Giraudoux's play, based on the Greek legend of Zeus' rape of Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, illustrates that neither the wiles of men nor the caprices of gods are effective against the constancy of devotion of a wife (Alkmena.) Jupiter attempts to rape Alkmena but discovers he must reckon with a woman far too intelligent to be led astray by passion...
...story was not ended yet. Last week, when the happy wedding party arrived in Reggio Calabria to make their final plans, Francesca the bride slipped away from her husband-to-be, ran to the police, retracted all her former statements, and accused Pietro of rape. "They will kill me now, I suppose," she said as the police took the mayor into custody, "but I would rather die than marry...
...feuding students from Rikkyo and Nippon Universities started a riot in a beer hall. Result: one student dead. ¶ In June, three students from Komazawa, Japan's foremost Buddhist university, were arrested for assault and attempted rape after breaking into a public bathhouse and attacking two bathhouse maids...