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Nobody has been killed or injured in Tucson by the bombs; they have apparently been set to detonate so as not to harm the occupants. Tucson's police force has so far made no arrests for the bombings. New York lawmen believe, however, that the fuses for the bombs were set four years ago when Joe Bananas was apparently ordered to retire by his underworld peers. Instead, he has attempted to retain control of his narcotics, numbers and loan-sharking rackets by transforming his Brooklyn-based fief into a hereditary barony and installing his son Salvatore ("Bill") Bonanno...
...course of their sometimes-fanatical crusade against marijuana, American lawmen have made the hippie-policemen a standard fixture in many college communities. And in New York last month, this new look in law enforcement moved into politics as hundreds of long haired, shabbily-dressed young policemen overran Columbia in the name of law and order...
...Southern procession echoed with memories of earlier clashes in the civil rights cause. Passing through Selma, Abernathy paused beside the silver span of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, scene on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7, 1965) of a club-flailing confrontation between King's marchers and Sheriff Clark's lawmen. During a speech recalling King, Abernathy suddenly fell silent and let the tears roll down his cheeks. Then a huge Negro woman began singing: "Jesus-got all the power...
Life v. Property. New York's Mayor John Lindsay summed up the sentiment of most leaders and lawmen throughout the nation: "Protection of life, particularly innocent life, is more important than protecting property. We are not going to turn disorder into chaos through the unprincipled use of armed force; we are not going to shoot children." That drew down on Lindsay the collective wrath of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant merchants-both black and white-who charge that the mayor has been "soft" on rioters and insensitive to their pleas for city aid in repairing looted and burned-out businesses...
...Vices for One? Then there are the physicians and lawmen, like Commissioner Giordano, who indict marijuana on three counts: 1) it builds up an addictive need for continued use, 2) it leads often and almost inevitably to the use of hard narcotics such as heroin or to LSD,* 3) it impairs mental functioning at least temporarily and may damage the mind permanently or even destroy all rational mentation...