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...apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver." To his astonishment, he was met with applause and praise for frankness. Negroes are not always the most militant participants. Shouted one white college professor: "Racism is part of the air we breathe, and you white cops represent the worst...
Draft resistance techniques seem to be changing. Instead of direct attack on draft policies, several resisters are now trying to harass local boards by literally interpreting some draft regulations...
...four students have informally designated March 10-16 as "Harass Your Draft Board Week." Students are asked to write one certified letter a day to their local boards, telling them how they've been feeling or what they've been up to: anything that falls into the categories on the card...
Coaching on the collegiate level is a treacherously difficult undertaking. The competitors, especially at Ivy League schools, have interests apart from athletics. Alumni, again, more in evidence in the Ivies, put on pressures for victories, and college newspapers may harass the coach often with disturbing results...
Carrier v. Bomber. Because the Russians consider the U.S.'s seaborne air-power to be a major threat in case of all-out war, one of their favorite tricks is to harass and probe U.S. carriers. Soviet destroyers and trawlers try to break a carrier's screen of protective smaller ships in order to force the flattop to change course while launching or landing aircraft and thus maybe dump a few planes into the sea. In the air, bombers of the Soviet navy^s 750-plane, land-based air force continually test to see how close they can approach...