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...ideas for changing the global financial system. The discussion will heat up this week, first at a meeting in Basel of central bankers from the world's ten leading industrial nations, then at a gathering in Luxembourg of European Common Market ministers. All participants recognize that the makeshift measures that allayed the most recent crisis are not enough. Unless more fundamental changes are begun, there will be a new upheaval -sooner rather than later...
...dead-Margaret and Clyde Johnson-were the children of Jamaica Plain welfare recipients Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson. They drowned on Saturday, May 15, when a makeshift raft on which they had been playing capsized. The pond, called a "death hole" by local residents, has been the site of at least one other drowning and numerous near-drownings...
...dissenters, and to be sure much of the speech was exactly that. But what Mitchell had to say in San Francisco contained a couple of unhappy postscripts to the mass arrests during Washington's Mayday protest. More than 12,000 people were rounded up, often indiscriminately, herded into makeshift compounds and held as long as 36 hours with neither arraignment nor the chance to raise bail. To clear the Washington streets, Police Chief Jerry Wilson had his men abandon their own established arrest procedures...
...finally did happen to the children of black welfare recipients Mr. and Mrs. James E. Johnson. Margaret and Clyde Johnson, aged eight and nine respectively, drowned in the pond Saturday morning after the makeshift raft on which they had been playing capsized...
...first morning of the Washington protest, TIME Correspondent, Robert Anson, was covering a group of demonstrators near the Lincoln Memorial, and was swept up in the ensuing "bust" (the charges against him were later dropped). Along with others, he was taken to the makeshift jail that was soon cheerfully labeled "Woodstockade." His report...