Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest. The Alliance has proclaimed a platform that calls for the neutrality of North and South Viet Nam. Clearly, by sugar-coating the pill, the Communists hope to build the Alliance into a full-scale political entity that would be acceptable in a coalition government, as the Viet Cong and N.L.F...
...City police, armed with warrants signed by Columbia University trustees, marched on the Morningside Heights campus and dispossessed the student rebels who had occupied five buildings for nearly six days. In the inevitable melee, more than 130 people-including twelve police men-were injured; 698 people, mostly students, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest or both. Although the action united hope essly confused Columbia in anger over police brutality, it also moved the campus toward order-and touched off a much needed re-examination of the university's future...
...about 8:30 a.m. we hear that the cops are coming. One-hundred-seventy-three people jump out the window. (I don't jump because I've been reading Lord Jim.) That leaves 27 of us sitting on the floor, waiting to be arrested. In stroll an inspector and two cops. We link arms and grit our teeth. After about five minutes of gritting our teeth it downs on us that the cops aren't doing anything. We relax a little and they tell us they have neither the desire nor the orders to arrest us. In answer...
David Jones had 20 stitches. The next Thursday evening the sheriff arrested him. He said the owner of the gas station had asked for his arrest. The sheriff explained that David could also make out a warrant, but he knew that David would not make out a warrant once in jail. "He's afraid to." Mrs. Common explained...
...morally wrong in these cases? It's just possible that a few of those students who came out for morals meant that they wouldn't want their kids to be as immoral as the people who today oppose revision of abortion laws, who harass and actually arrest a man for disseminating birth-control information, and who try generally to smother spontaneity--sexual or otherwise--and to perpetuate guilt and shame. I want my children to have higher "morals" than the present generation, too. I don't want to see them adhering to any double standard and immobilized by the hostilities...