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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police raid on a Black Panther apartment in Chicago last December has become a cause célèbre. Police claimed that they were attacked as they sought to enter the apartment, whereas Panthers claimed that the two of their number who were killed had been more or less passive victims. Last week a federal grand jury wound up its investigation by citing "the irreconcilable disparity between the accounts given by the officers and the physical evidence." The results were inconclusive, since they failed to clear up the vital questions of just what happened in the predawn raid that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Panthers: Questions Remain | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

...drafted at 17 and sent to Denmark. Back in Hamburg after the war, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts. There his gift in graphics was quickly recognized, and he was invited to stay on and teach. In 1960, he became something of a cause célèbre when Hamburg police found his "qui s'explique" lithographs of lovemaking couples too explicit and closed the show. Undaunted, Wunderlich set off for Paris to work with the master lithographer Jacques Desjobert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty in the Bizarre | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...months, had been forecast by PATCO a week in advance. Like the massive "slowdown" of the summer of 1968, the "sick-out" was another tactic in Bailey's continuing campaign to win PATCO recognition as sole bargainer for the controllers. The cause célèbre this time was the fate of three activist PATCO members in the FAA's Baton Rouge control tower. The agency has been trying to transfer the three for months, but has been stalled by legal and bureaucratic obstacles thrown up by PATCO. Last week a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Man's Slow-Motion Aerial Act | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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