Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps a cruel joke Mr. Horovitz is playing on the theatregoer- but a necessary one. It is exactly the kind of communications impasse he is dealing with that spawns the rhetoric that leads to real racism, law-and-order candidates, blacklash and violence. It is no surprise that his play ends with a grotestquely scary and ecumenical ("Kill the white man! Kill the black man!") chant of murder...
...even know whether you're in violation of any law. Is this the draft law you've violated?" a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent said to the group when they asked to be arrested for last weekend's destruction of files at six Boston draft board offices. The FBI agent gave the group the address of their local FBI offices, and told them to turn themselves in there...
...difficult to explain the predictability of Boston's elections. Several plausible theories can be advanced but their mutual exclusiveness can be extremely puzzling. It is fair to say that the Boston electorate is quite conservative, law-and-order oriented, and votes in candidates that go along with it. But no one can determine why Bostonians would sweep Hicks, an outspoken anti-black politician, into office with an amazing plurality, and give second place to Tom Atkins, a liberal black from Roxbury who finished a badly beaten 16th in the primaries...
Granted, Atkins was an incumbent, and what is less well known is that he frequently votes law-and-order. But his conservatism was not made an issue in his campaign, and he had, in fact, deliberately played up his sympathy with Roxbury in order to maximize his drawing power in the black community. Since the blacks account for only 15 per cent of Boston's electorate, they alone could not put him in office, and what is politically incredible is the support he found in lily-white precincts where Hicks coasted to victory. For example, in Allston, hardly expected...
Spock and the other speakers questioned the constitutionality of the anti-riot law which the defendants have been indicted for violating. The law forbids crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot. The speakers said the law violates people's right to free speech and free thought...