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...said at a City Hall press conference. "I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon...
...dreams." Arthur J. Bilek, a former Chicago police lieutenant now administering the criminal justice curriculum at the University of Illinois, said: "A bullet fired into the body of a suspected looter is, after all, a quite irrevocable act." Others blurred the distinction between Daley's kill and maim categories. Said Arnold Sagalyn, a U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department official and member of the President's riot commission: "It clearly seems wise public policy not to deprive a person of his life, particularly without a trial, for a crime that may involve property worth only a few dollars...
Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...
...silly for several minutes by a Hull shot that glanced off the top of his head; he now wears a face mask against Chicago. Bobby is aware that he could permanently injure somebody, but he cannot permit himself to brood about it. "I'm certainly not out to maim anyone," he says, "but the goalies take their chances...
...quite like it. Tt is two kinds of combat against a two-faced enemy, and the combination is deadly. One fight pits the U.S. and its allies against North Vietnamese and main-force Viet Cong regular soldiers whose primary mission is as old as war itself: to kill and maim the opposing armies. The second fight is waged by a second enemy, the clandestine Viet Cong guerrilla. His uniform is the peasant's black pajamas, and his mission is a Communist innovation: to steal people as well as territory away from the South Vietnamese government...