Word: antiriot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officially, the Grand Jury in Tucson is investigating possible violations-by three "SDS-Weathermen"-of the antiriot act and of federal law pertaining to the purchase and interstate transport of explosives. It has already indicted one of the three, John Fuerst, for illegally purchasing 120 sticks of dynamite in Tucson last May and transporting them to California...
...Grand Jury in St. Louis indicted four students on charges of sabotage or attempted sabotage during a time of National Emergency; one was also charged with destruction of federal property. Three other students were charged with violating an antiriot provision of the Civil Rights...
...none of them had been arrested at the demonstration, all were charged with conspiring to damage federal property; five were also accused of crossing state lines with the intention of causing a riot. It was the Government's first use, since the Chicago trial, of the 1968 federal antiriot law, which civil libertarians insist is unconstitutional...
...newest additions are three women. Bernardine Dohrn, 28, a leading Weatherwoman, is charged with violating the federal antiriot law in Chicago during last fall's "Days of Rage." Susan Saxe and Katherine Power, 21-year-old former Brandeis students, are wanted, among other things, for taking part in the September robbery of a Boston bank in which a policeman was killed...
...anyone who hangs the flag upside down faces a jail term. Pennsylvania permits flag desecration as a form of political expression. In Athens, Ga., white demonstrators can get parade permits in six hours; blacks wait 24 hours. No appellate court has yet tested the constitutionality of the 1968 federal antiriot law, which carries a five-year sentence or $10,000 fine for crossing a state line to incite or join a demonstration that might turn violent, even if it never takes place...