Word: harrisburgs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...married to someone of other than the Caucasian or White race, who are of good moral character, physically and mentally normal, who shall profess a belief in a Supreme Being." Refused service as a guest in both the bar and the dining room of Lodge 107 in Harrisburg, Pa., K. Leroy Irvis, a black Pennsylvania legislator, brought a test suit under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause...
When no conviction came, the Harrisburg Seven eagerly claimed a moral victory, hugging one another and raising their fingers in the peace sign. Though they elected not to testify in their own behalf, the defendants' cause was stridently reiterated in the Easter week demonstrations in Harrisburg that attracted speakers ranging from Alger Hiss and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy to Daniel Ellsberg and Congresswoman Bella Abzug. "We have a feeling that we are celebrating something of a victory," said Sister Elizabeth. Eqbal Ahmad, a Pakistani scholar and the only non-Catholic defendant, announced to cheering supporters: "My plans...
...Results. That confusion should give the Justice Department pause when it decides whether to retry the Harrisburg Seven, in a case that has already cost the Government an estimated $1,500,000. Indeed, the conspiracy law, invoked against such varied defendants as Charles Manson, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bobby Scale and members of the Mafia, has lately come under attack as one of the most elusive and elastic on the books. According to legal critics, U.S. prosecutors have increasingly and often unfairly exploited the fact that a conspiracy charge requires less evidence of actual injurious conduct than any other crime. There...
Perhaps with that in mind, late last week a Justice Department official admitted that a retrial of the Harrisburg Seven was not likely. "You look at the results we got," he said, "and where they got tried, and you have to come to the conclusion that there's nothing more to be gained." Or to be lost...
...which police agents played a role-from the trials of the Chicago Seven and the Seattle Eight to virtually all of those involving Black Panthers. Currently, civil libertarians are questioning the propriety of the prosecution's use of Boyd Douglas, the FBI informant central to the just-concluded Harrisburg Seven trial (see THE NATION). Still more questions have been raised by the ongoing trial of 28 people accused of destroying draft files in Camden, N.J. Four weeks ago, Robert Hardy, a paid FBI informer, suddenly announced that Government money had been supplied for gas, trucks, tools and other items...