Word: antiriot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is whether the country is willing or ready to be turned around. Concern over "rewarding" Negro rioters could still result in a series of repressive measures by Congress. One such, an antiriot bill passed by the House, is pending in the Senate, where the Judiciary Committee last week heard former CIA Director John McCone ad mit that a check on incitement might sometimes be helpful. However, McCone, who headed the presidential commission that investigated 1965's Watts riot, warned that antiriot legislation would be no panacea. "What worries me," he said, "is the climate that might prevail...
...ever-widening spectrum of public opinion is at odds with his leadership: farmers threaten to withhold commodities unless prices rise; liberals urge a massive new assault on ghetto ills; conservatives demand tough antiriot legislation; critics of the war demand withdrawal or an all-out effort to smash the enemy. Republican support for Viet Nam is eroding. Last week Martin Luther King advocated "mass civil disobedience" to "cripple the operations of an oppressive society." Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke warned of "civil war" unless the President fights for his urban programs...
...negative 90th"-was of a mind to propose any major attempt to improve the lot of the slum dweller. Under the chair manship of Mississippi's archsegregationist James Eastland, the Senate Judiciary Committee continued hearings on the causes of the disturbances, as it considered a House-passed antiriot bill, doing nothing to assuage critics' fears that it was more concerned with repressing slum violence than averting it. The committee called on Leonard Kowalewski, a Newark turnkey who hinted of a conspiracy behind the Newark riots and charged that federal anti-poverty workers helped to bring about the trouble...
Humdinger. In the House, meanwhile, a Republican-Southern Democratic coalition inserted strong antiriot measures into the President's anti-crime bill before sending it on to the Senate. (Other changes would give the states nearly total control over how federal anti-crime grants would be spent, sharply curtailing the supervisory role of the Attorney General.) In the upper chamber, predicted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, the measure, which gives $75 million to local police in the first year, will be combined with the House-passed antiriot bill, which makes it a crime to cross state lines to foment riots...
...Gotta Move, Man." Simultaneously, the Republican Coordinating Committee rushed into the act. Twenty-six members of the 36-man policymaking panel had been at work on a riot paper, drafted by two-time G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, Florida Representative William Cramer (author of the House-passed antiriot bill) and Colorado Governor John Love. Accusing Lyndon Johnson of a good share of responsibility for the state of anarchy that prevailed in the nation's riot-torn cities, it also hinted that a conspiracy was behind the disorder...