Word: copse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The biggest police problem in the U.S. today, says Los Angeles' Chief Reddin, "is to find ways to equip the policeman so that he won't give in to the baiting and the frustrations." The problem requires more than rigorous discipline and court decisions that ban lawless police...
The cast was familiar: an immovable government pitted against students suddenly intoxicated with their own force. The setting was Mexico City, bedecked with flags for the Olympics that were to show Mexico's modern, progressive face to the world. What was different about last week's cops-and...
Home-Made Bazooka. The first casualty of the invasion was nonviolence. When protesting students assembled in the Plaza of the Three Cultures,* the granaderos charged. Students retreated to nearby apartments and replied with a volley of rocks and Molotov cocktails. At the Santo Tomas campus of the Polytechnic National Institute...
Outwardly, the students were protesting against government repression and demanding redress for a growing list of grievances, particularly against the heavyhanded riot cops. "In actuality," declared a student leader, "we are testing the structure of the country. We want the people to see what happens when the government is criticized...
If that is by now an international cliche, there was no evidence of international conspiracy. Castroite Professor Heberto Castillo, head of the Communist-lining Mexican Liberation Front, was presumed to be lending a hand somewhere, and the cops spotted half a dozen Black Panthers on their way ' home from...