Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They hoped to galvanize public opinion by goading Chicago's tough cops into more of the publicity-catching repression meted out last year. Despite the provocations, the police for the most part kept their temper. Nor did many allies enlist in the cause.
When police, who were on the scene but unobtrusive at first, refused to play, the Weathermen vented their frustration in a senseless rampage. They stopped cars and beat the bewildered passengers, smashed windows and glass doors, and urinated on everything in sight. Some charged head-on into squads of policemen...
The immediate cause of the outburst was a strike for more pay staged by the city's cops and firemen. There were far deeper causes as well. The happy glow cast by Expo 67 has faded. Separatists advocating an independent Quebee have ignited a series of violent demonstrations and...
It was no wonder that the gang was difficult to catch. Last week the dismayed New Orleans police superintendent, Joseph Giarrusso, announced that charges of burglary had been filed against seven policemen and five former cops. Eight more policemen were suspended for refusing to take lie detector tests. It was...
Moving cautiously, Giarrusso charged the gang with only 26 burglaries-for a total of $19,000. But informers connected the police gang with more than 20 other jobs, including the armored car and Adler robberies and thefts in which guests at French Quarter hotels lost $300,000 in jewels and...