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...zoning ordinance that would have permitted a low-cost housing project in Union City, Calif., was rejected in a referendum last year. The Southern Alameda Spanish Speaking Organization filed suit, contending that the referendum deprived those who would live in the project of their rights under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found no constitutional violation, but said that city officials may have a duty to meet the needs of low-income families. As a result of the appellate opinion, a U.S. district judge directed Union City to assure housing...
...indisposed. Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, discovered on October 28, 1967, with four bullets in his stomach and a dead cop at his side, has been put away indefinitely for "involuntary manslaughter," a crime be couldn't possibly have committed. Other than Huey, no one, including the Alameda County courts, can ever know what happened that night. But the victims of fascism have never been innocent until proven guilty...
After years of trouble with Berkeley's radicals, the Alameda County sheriff's deputies were in an ugly mood last May. At issue was "People's Park," a vacant lot owned by the University of California and taken over by a band of students and hippies to occupy and beautify for their own use. After the university ousted the squatters and fenced the lot, inevitably a dissenting march was mounted. When the protesters approached People's Park, the police were ready and waiting...
Campaign Begun. The indictments incensed Alameda County Sheriff Frank Madigan. While admitting that "things got out of hand," he described the investigations and charges of his men as "one of the sickest government operations that I have ever seen." A hardline law-and-order advocate, Madigan believes that his own recommendations for disciplining ten of his men-ranging from demotions to 15-day suspensions without pay-were enough. He claims that the indictments will have a "profound effect" on law enforcement across the country, adding: "No one sends for us until things are out of hand and force is necessary...
...fenced off a valuable, three-acre lot that it owned and planned to develop. Police evicted students and street people, who had made the tract into a pleasant, albeit illegal, People's Park (TIME, May 23). When a rock- and pipe-throwing mob of students and radicals protested, Alameda County sheriff's deputies-dubbed by students the "Blue Meanies"-sprayed them with birdshot and buckshot. One bystander, James Rector, 25, died last week of buckshot wounds. Rector, a drifter and probation violator, had been watching the fracas from a rooftop. Police fired at his perch after bricks were...