Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight minutes before motor-scooter police chased them off. Elsewhere, at the eight other intersections Mayday had marked for blockage, demonstrators fled from tear gas and fast-moving police. With thousands of protesters in the streets, Wilson soon issued his controversial order to dispense with the normal and slower arrest procedures, and radioed his men to "just load 'em into the vans," a process that led to thousands of indiscriminate arrests -of bystanders on their way to work, for example, and of 23 newsmen. Wilson denied that the Justice Department had originated the order, although it is likely that...
...second day, it was obvious that Wilson's method had succeeded in decimating the Mayday forces. As the arrest total rose (more than 12,000 by week's end), Washington police received 250,000 calls from parents throughout the U.S. who were hoping to locate their youngsters. There was little disruption of traffic as the demonstrators began to understand that the Government was listening to traffic reports rather than the anti-war demands they were making. They next approached the older ethic of passive civil disobedience, massing at the Justice Department under Attorney General John Mitchell...
...pathos. As some of the young earnestly and tearfully sought to move Congress with their message against the war, a longhair pranced naked before the Capitol. Montana Senator Lee Metcalf socked a cop in the chest for refusing to let him pass. Then, implacably, the police moved in to arrest yet another 1,000 and haul them off to jail...
Anonymity Appeals. The arrest of Stevens and Miss Orr made it four crimes in as many days marked closed by police with the help of the News' program. Earlier, police acting on a Secret Witness tip arrested Charles Martin Fullwood for a March murder, and said ballistics tests showed his .38 caliber revolver had been used in two other slayings. The lead to Fullwood came after the offer of a $2,000 reward...
...paper. Police will not question the source of a tip, but promise to check it out and keep the News informed confidentially of their progress. For its part the News does not pursue leads on its own and publishes no stories on the investigation of tips until an arrest is made or a warrant issued. Though the bargain clearly restricts the reportorial role at the start of an investigation, the News winds up with exclusive background in later stories. The police, in turn, freely concede that the rewards-which come from a News standing fund of $100,000 or from...