Word: harassment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand jury now gathers evidence, subpoenas people it wants to harass, and jails them without due process of law." Mahoney said...
...soldiers marched in. Slightly drunk and obviously hostile, each of the four carried a pistol in one hand and a submachine gun in the other. They beat up a police guard who tried to stop them, but their only apparent mission was to wake up the prisoners and harass them. They stayed only a few minutes, but when they left, one shouted back, "You're lucky to be here and not with...
...flew daily and sometimes hourly attack sorties, a total of 25,000 missions, dropping an estimated 75,000 tons of napalm, white phosphorus, antipersonnel bombs and high explosives-more than a ton for every Pathet Lao guerrilla, NVA soldier and civilian in the area. The bombing was intended to harass the Communists and drive the local population out of the Plain of Jars into southern regions controlled by the Royal Laotian government. Throughout that period, the air war over the Plain of Jars remained an official secret on two of the sides involved. North Viet Nam has never admitted that...
...husband's radio station. The essence of the group's service is that it follows up on a complaint, calls back the city department concerned to see if anything has been done. Says Mrs. Straus: "If the complaint hasn't been taken care of, we can harass the agency involved more effectively than the complainer." Call for Action now operates through local radio and TV stations in 48 cities across...
...people gather in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance. In southern New Jersey, a 30-year-old receptionist winds thread around a voodoo doll and sticks steel pins into it in a determined effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly in The Temple of the Pagan Way to take instruction in ancient witchcraft and ceremonial magic from a high...