Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations were peaceful until the most recent one, when the Indians collided with the annual sheriffs posse rodeo parade. The drill team was dressed in old cavalry costumes, like the ones worn by the Indians' original oppressors. The resulting fracas left one policeman injured and 31 Indians under arrest. "These people are just trying to stir up trouble," says Councilman Jimmy Drake. "These parades could be caused by subversives, you know-Communists, for instance...
There has been virtually no change in that most emotional issue in racial relations: the high level of black crime. In 1968 and again in 1972, blacks were arrested for 27.5% of all crimes. Some decline was registered in the rate of arrests for crimes against property-burglary, larceny, auto theft. But, distressingly, there was a slight rise in the arrest rate for aggravated assault, forcible rape and murder. Thus the ghettos continue to bear a disquieting resemblance to battlefields...
Friends and relatives of the Price sisters have claimed that the pair were unjustly prosecuted and tried: that they received no legal advice until four days after their arrest, that authorities purposely shifted the trial from London to the more conservative town of Winchester. Their supporters have also charged that prison officials brutalized the sisters by force-feeding them during their long hunger strike. Force-feeding -in which a person's mouth is clamped open while a greased tube is inserted through his nose and a "complan" solution of iron, orange and milk-soaked glucose is poured directly into...
Died. Ahmed Messali Hadj, 76, patriarch of the Algerian nationalist movement; in Paris. Tireless and magnetic, Messali began assailing French colonialism in the 1920s, spent years in jail and under house arrest, and saw himself as the Gandhi of North Africa. But when the struggle for Algerian independence intensified in the 1950s, he was regarded as an ineffectual anachronism by the militant F.L.N. (National Liberation Front). Ignored by the Algerian government after independence, Messali lived out his years an exile in France...
...supporters of the indicted say that the court succeeded in what they feel was its prime objective--to politicize and arrest the progress advocates of legalized abortion have made in Boston...