Word: internment
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...their relationship to the human consciousness. Weil has grown up with the drug scene; he began when Leary and Alpent did, experimenting with mescaline as a freshman in Claverly. He wrote papers for Riesman on drugs in American society and went on to Harvard Medical School. As an intern Weil treated the "victims" of the Haight in San Francisco. In 1968 he conducted the first thorough, objective study of marijuana in this country since 1946; the results, though they now seem old hat, caught most experts completely off guard...
...Police, office personnel, and elected officials, well prepared for militant demonstrations, were suspicious of the long-haired delegation. Capitol Hill guards thoroughly inspected all handbags and packages that were brought into the Congressional office buildings. One student observer who had spent several summers on the Hill as a Senate intern noted that the number of police assigned to the Capitol was remarkably high, especially given the incidence of real crime in other parts of the city...
...paid ads in Belfast's Irish News urging resistance by the hunger-striking detainees aboard the prison ship Maidstone in Belfast harbor (which the government ordered closed last week). Said one sample ad: "Hamill-to Frankie and comrades on your ninth day of hunger strike. They can intern the revolutionaries, but they can't intern the revolution. God bless you. From your mother-in-law and family...
...Sympathy. Each batch of men freed will be guarantors for the next, and if violence tapers off, releases will be accelerated. "I must stress with the utmost force," he declared, "the basic simple principle that the sooner violence ends the sooner internment can be ended"-though he intends also to keep the power to intern others if necessary...
...that charge and the one accusing the Post of discrimination seem overdrawn. The paper frequently runs stories sympathetic to black problems, and articles that treat blacks as individuals. The Post supports an all-black intern program at the Washington Journalism Center. The paper also has sent a black editor around the country scouting for black recruits...