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...detained, except for Mrs. Gorbanevskaya, who was released after a few hours in jail in order to care for her young children. Several people who expressed sympathy for the group were hauled off to the police station. The six arrested demonstrators, who were charged with "group activities in flagrant violation of public order," face up to three years in labor camps. Litvinov, a physicist, and Mrs. Daniel have a long record of dissent, having protested such other Soviet actions as the literary trial last January at which three intellectuals were handed stiff prison sentences for unorthodoxy...
...Reporter Dan Rather was flattened by two security men; one hit him in the stomach, the other in the back. Rather's colleague, Mike Wallace, was belted in the jaw by a guard and hustled out of the hall. The attacks on newspaper and TV reporters became so flagrant that eight top executives of news-gathering organizations* strongly protested the treatment in a telegram to Mayor Daley...
...Flagrant Violation. The reaction throughout the free world was predictably bitter. Charles de Gaulle, his bridge building to the East in ruins, deplored the attack on "the rights and destiny of a friendly nation" and rapped the Russians for still being so old-fashioned as to think of Europe in terms of blocs. Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the attack "a flagrant violation of all accepted standards of international behavior." In New Delhi, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi expressed her "concern and anguish," but her statement was not strong enough to please members of Parliament, who filled the chamber with cries...
...songs, mostly written by Townshend and Entwistle, are conceived with flagrant imagination and tautly, expressively written. Daltrey sings them with a blackish brackish voice in rhythmic patterns such that there is always a lilting melodious quality to them an effect which combines marvelously with the underlying relentless fast-paced beat. The lyrics are startlingly effective and form a muscular tense poetry. A recent song by a major West Coast group complaining about a faithless girl went something like "I was such a fool, I should have known better, She was untrue, wah wah wah etc." Here...
Still, the trend is in that general direction. "Our ultimate plan," says Wise, "is to develop a system that would pay all auto-accident victims except a few flagrant violators, such as hit-and-run drivers...