Word: dragnet
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...which the state had filed grab-bag blanket charges against inmates, and of the case of the Harlem Four, whom New York was attempting to bring to court again after six years, two mistrials, and an overthrown verdict. Those were only three examples of an entire racial consciousness of dragnet arrests, trumped-up charges, manufactured or flimsy evidence, dubious identifications, legal technicalities, forced plea bargains, lack of decent or concerned counsel, delayed trials, vengeful prosecutions, excessive bail, stiff sentencing, and violating of civil rights and liberties. Amnesty was the only demand that really mattered...
...showed up in Mather House last year: large numbers of students and tutors would gather in the Junior Common Room each night after dinner to watch the network news shows--Walter Cronkite for the early eaters. John Chancellor for the later diners. One day last spring, as the dragnet lightened around the White House, CBS watchers found a small hand of Star Trek viewers occupying the tube they were outvoted at first, but soon their numbers grew to the point that Captain Kirk phasered Walter Cronkite, and another tradition was over...
Last week, in the biggest dragnet since the 1972 raids, West German police swept through scores of homes in search of members of suspected terrorist organizations. At least 14 people were arrested, including Wolf-Dieter Reinhard, 35, a Hamburg lawyer who represented some of the Baader-Meinhof defendants. Reinhard was held on suspicion of belonging to an anarchist group that murdered one of its members when he talked to police...
Patty Hearst was not among them, and so might still be alive. But the five included the leaders of the S.L.A. believed to be her constant captor-companions, raising the fear that she might have been killed earlier as the dragnet was closing in on the S.L.A. The dead...
...these things on Dragnet, but he looked and seemed like a really good guy," David lamented...