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Already there are a few rumblings. Says Russ Cook, U.A.W. district committeeman at GM's Buick plant in Flint: "If we don't get smarter and start combatting the machines, we will be cannibalizing ourselves and competing against one another for jobs." Adds Larry Jones, a Chrysler metal-shop worker: "They say they are only going to put robots on boring jobs. But in an auto plant, all the jobs are boring jobs...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...
...colleagues watched helplessly, the police spent 90 min. rummaging through their files and desk drawers before locating the tapes they wanted. Last week KBCI filed a civil complaint against the state and the local prosecutor claiming infringement of their First Amendment rights. Only two months earlier, police in Flint, Mich., had raided a local printing firm looking for information related to an article in the Flint Voice criticizing the mayor. After two such incidents in so short a time, many journalists are worried that police in other cities will now start to launch their own raids...
...Boise swoop has produced particularly broad concern, perhaps because the police invaded a newsroom and not, as in Flint, a commercial print shop where no journalists work. "I feel I've been completely compromised," said Reporter Loy, who had talked his way into the Idaho prison as a member of a convict-approved "citizens committee." "These people asked me to go in because they knew I could be trusted." CBS News President Bill Leonard called the raid "unjustified." New York Attorney Floyd Abrams, who has argued several press freedom cases, said the Boise action was "particularly offensive" because...
...Stanford Daily decision illegal. The bills would make it necessary for police to subpoena material they think they need from reporters. "You know who's going to pass it for us?" asks Jack Landau, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "The cops in Flint and Boise. It ought to be called the Police Department Memorial Bill...