Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Utmost Concern. Richard Nixon last week enlisted a 20-man task force to explore the problems of law enforcement. The National Governors' Conference, meeting in Cincinnati, adopted a resolution "recognizing crime in the streets of America as a problem which demands the utmost concern and attention of all Americans." For all their concern and attention, however, the Governors refused to endorse gun-control legislation, which is favored by police chiefs around the country. "Gun control isn't going to solve the problem," said Georgia's Lester Maddox. "Punishment and apprehension is the answer...
...Beginning. Even as the plotted attack on police in Cleveland was increasing white apprehension about law and order all over the country, it seemed to be inspiring black militants to a higher level of bombast. Said Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of Oakland's Black Panthers and author of Soul on Ice, a compendium of bitter autobiographical essays: "It shows that psychologically blacks are not only prepared to die but to kill." Added Stokely Carmichael: "We are only at the beginning of a revolution-the armed stage. We must create the maximum damage with a minimum loss of black people...
Tenuous order came with dawn, and Stokes, on the advice of black leaders, devised a bold gamble to pacify the troubled area the next night. All white law-enforcement officers, including the National Guardsmen, were withdrawn, and some 100 Negro policemen-nearly all Cleveland has-and 500 Negro civilians, mostly militants, were sent in. Stokes' bet paid off. Rioting stopped and no one was injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively...
...someone in office who would do good things for the city." At their first general meeting this week, the nearly 200 members will consider issues and candidates for the spring battle with Yorty. A leading contender is Frank Mankiewicz, Robert Kennedy's press secretary, who used to practice law in Beverly Hills...
...things worse-until one day Carney spies a traumatic headline. Roaring drunk, he announces to the old crone that the Pope has quashed the cult of St. Philomena. Carney deposes a statue of the saint from its altar, insults his wife, and climbs into bed with his mother-in-law. Alas, the old lady soon finds a surrogate saint, the daughter is shocked and the carpenter is left to grow old disgracefully belowstairs...