Word: mace
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the often violent demonstrations of the 1960s, the recent anti-CIA protests have been relatively restrained. Although police at the University of Wisconsin in Madison sprayed Mace on 15 protesters who tried to stop recruitment efforts last week, other demonstrations have been peaceful. In Boulder, where university police and protest leaders met in advance to set ground rules (say your piece, present yourself for arrest), the local district attorney said that no one would be fined or jailed. The publicity seems to have worked in favor of the recruiters. During the protest the agency interviewed 140 students, in contrast...
...amount of federal funding the university receives requires it to cooperate with government agencies like the CIA. "In that case," said one demonstrator, Cornell "should re-examine is relationship to the government." Fifteen were arrested for trespass during the demonstration the UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN in Madison, police line chemical Mace on 100 protesters who tried to push through a police line to reach a CIA interview site. At COLORADO UNIVERSITY., more than 300 were arrested in two days of protests. Cornell Daily Sun and the Associated Press...
...suspected of having committed dozens more. The victims were housewives, career women and schoolgirls ranging in age from 14 to 51. Public officials suppressed news of the savage attacks; they wanted no hints of a crime wave in the Lilac City. But word got around, and stocks of Mace and handguns were soon depleted. The undermanned police force began to work overtime, picking up vagrants, drug addicts and recidivists, but with no success...
...wood paneled and decorated with antique weapons, a fair number of which get used in the two and a half hours of mayhem. As Bruhl asks early on. "What's the point of owning a mace if you don't use it?" The mace and most of the swords, axes, knives and guns would make any collector proud, but one large cardboard-looking saber in the middle of the back wall stands...
...least understood evends of this century, "representing the most successful example of the denial of genocide by in perpetration." The basic reason behind Station's actions was trying to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a social organism and as a political factor within the Soviet Union." added James Mace, author of a forth coming book on the famine...