Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They will choose their government and the opportunity for a decent, finer life for the humblest of citizens, and they will reject the Communist system of terror and torture, extortion and fear. And when that choice is finally made, then the Viet Cong will wither and fade away."
Much of the Viet Cong terrorism in recent months has been aimed at South Viet Nam's national police, the canh sat. In one attack last week the raiders blew up the canh sat headquarters in Hien Nhon. In another, at Long An, raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing...
The debate over the Viet Nam war has produced a rash of newsletters, proclamations and manifestoes, most of which are forgotten almost as soon as they are written. Two new magazines devoted to the subject, however, seem determined to last as long as the war. Viet-Report, a monthly, stands...
There have been beatings, riots and extortion at Job Corps camps, where underprivileged youths from 16 to 21 are housed and given job training. Bureaucratic delays in processing Job Corps applications have caused countless prospective trainees to lose interest in the program. In Chicago and other cities, critics of anti...
> Postponements for "further hearings," says Specter, give magistrates "an opportunity to extort money from defendants prior to disposition at the preliminary hearing." While tending a friend's bar in 1963, Juan Martinez was arrested for letting in a minor. Magistrate Harry J. Ellick reportedly commented: "Big people pay $500...