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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven months after the Democratic National Convention, the bitterness sur ounding that debacle has hardly abated. Last week a federal grand jury in Chicago ended months of deliberation with a balancing act that is certain to ignite fresh controversy. The jury indicted eight demonstrators and eight Chicago policemen for their part in the disorders. The demonstrators were the first to be charged under the 1968 antiriot section of the Civil Rights Act for conspiring and crossing state lines to in cite riot. Among those subject to as much as ten years in prison and $20,000 in fines, if convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Eight Plus Eight | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Ronnie Bell and Her Twin Liberty Bells, who work the Villanova Show Bar, and 6-ft. 6-in. Kitty, a few doors down at Club Troc, have trouble piling up bar tabs. Some club owners complain that today's movies, which are consistently more erotic than any cabaret act, are keeping customers away. While the Block has the reputation of being one of the safest places in town to walk after dark-the cops give it very special attention-incidents of muggings and robbery are no longer uncommon. "They lure them out of here where there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: REQUIEM FOR THE BLOCK | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...allows it to develop until it suits him to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...have a plan for that, but I cannot give you a timetable. It depends on how the Communists act, whether they are ready to de-escalate the war, or step up their infiltration and escalate the war. There will be no unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: It Depends on the Communists | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...Chicago, some 150 protesters swarmed into the president's office, smashed newsmen's tape recorders, threatened secretaries. The reason? They wanted five students who had been suspended in a previous disturbance to be reinstated. Damage has been done to people as well as property. In the act of setting a bomb in the Creative Arts Building at San Francisco State College this month, a 19-year-old student was blinded and maimed. A security guard at the same college is still hospitalized from an injury suffered in an earlier bomb blast. Ghetto and campus violence seemed to coalesce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DANGER OF PLAYING AT REVOLUTION | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

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