Word: insurrectionism
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Perdew, Allen, Donald Harris, and Thomas McDaniel had originally been charged with incitement to insurrection under a pre-Civil War Georgia statute, and with unlawful assembly. The insurrection charge carries a maximum penalty of death, but both charges were ruled unconstitutional last month by a three-judge Federal panel.
For years Soviet transmitters beamed a propaganda barrage against neighboring Iran, including appeals for insurrection against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. These days Moscow's line is more seductive than destructive. In Teheran on a state visit last week, toasting the health of "Your Imperial Majesty," was the titular Soviet...
For three months the Sumter County, Ga., jail held four young men-three white, one Negro, all Northerners-who were arrested last August in Americus, during civil rights demonstrations. They were charged with "inciting insurrection," a capital crime in Georgia, so there was no bail (TIME, Nov. 1). Their lawyers...
Last week a three-judge federal court, in a two-to-one decision, held unconstitutional the 1871 Georgia insurrection statute under which the four were held. The judges enjoined prosecution of the defendants under that statute and ordered their immediate release on bond on other, lesser charges pending against them...
Prosecutor Pace and other county, city and state officers were given until January by the court to prepare their defense on charges that they engaged in a conspiracy to suppress the civil rights movement in Americus by imposing the insurrection charge. If the action against them succeeds, it would become...