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...area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police and a Guard unit led by a warrant officer indulged in an orgy of beating and bashing that lasted 45 minutes...
Opponents of the tax hike have two arguments: that sharp spending cuts should take priority over higher taxes, and that the economic conditions do not warrant the increase. In the first case, any spending cuts would come in non-defense areas which have the most pressing needs. Therefore to oppose the tax hike in protest to the war in Vietnam serves merely to desert vital programs. The President has made his opinion clear that the war, though costly, is vital to American interest. To disagree with this priority is admirable; but to disregard it is unrealistic and stupid...
Like Cherry Pie. The next day Brown was arrested in Alexandria, Va., on a fugitive warrant, charged by Maryland with inciting to riot and arson. That rap could get Rap up to 20 years in jail. Released on $10,000 bond, Brown compulsively continued to shoot off his mouth. Damning Lyndon Johnson for sending "honky*cracker federal troops into Negro communities to kill black people," Brown called the President "a wild mad dog, an outlaw from Texas." He told Washington audiences: "Violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie. If you give me a gun and tell...
...derelict if they don't initiate preventive programs or if their police don't use established professional techniques of riot control and suppression. "There is a substantial need to indemnify victims of mob disorders," he comments. "Sovereign immunity is playing its finale. Fundamental principles of common law warrant the conclusion that the injured has a right to sue a municipal corporation for damages committed by a mob when the local unit of government acts heedlessly in the face of knowledge of the potential dangers to the victim...
...central problem raised was whether electronic eavesdropping constitutes an "unreasonable search and seizure" in violation of the Fourth Amendment. In order to get a search warrant, a policeman must show probable cause for the search. The New York eavesdropping statute included a similar requirement, but in the controlling opinion, Justice Clark found that it was too loose, considering the broad invasion of privacy made by a bugging device...