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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Where's the Sniper?" Smashing gun butts and barrels into hapless suspects, the officers kept asking: "Where's the sniper?" One by one, the room's terrified occupants were ordered into adjoining rooms for more intensive interrogation. While no witness claimed to have seen the actual killings, survivors agree that at least two of the dead youths were taken away and that subsequently shots were heard. Later, the sprawled bodies of the three youths were found lying in blood from buckshot wounds. At week's end, two policemen were formally charged with first-degree murder. Also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: Ugly Aftermath | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...Negroes, Samuel Carroll, 53, tried to plead with him, Kling triggered a fatal shotgun blast into Carroll's heart. "I oughta kill all of you," snapped Kling, then drove into town and gave himself up. That night, 400 angry Negroes demonstrated in Fayette, but Evers kept them from rioting by arguing that "the only people we would hurt would be ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: They Voted | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...injury so far this summer, at least in part because three large youth gangs, the Garfield Cobras, the Blackstone Rangers and the Disciples, have decided to block violence. Catastrophe might easily have occurred last week when a white storekeeper killed a Negro on the South Side, but the Disciples kept the peace. In Venice, Calif., the newly formed Gangbusters persuaded police to leave a crowd of 500 angry Negro kids, then dispersed the gathering without incident. In Atlanta, a number of "crisis patrols" have been organized that also include ex-convicts. The patrols actively oppose Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cities: What Next? | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...cigarettes and liquor-was considered essential by Reagan to pay for state programs already budgeted. When Unruh and several Democratic leaders suggested that income taxes be deducted directly from paychecks, Reagan opposed them and won by arguing that the taxpayers should pay in one annual bite and thus be kept painfully aware of the cost of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Fast Start | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...officers' quarters, which were kept apart from the lower ranks, an Egyptian Brigadier General (shot through the mouth and jaw) who had been stationed near El Arish

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Impressions from Israel | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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