Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissible in a trial. If a defendant thinks the Government has used forbidden tactics in developing its case against him, he can ask to see all the raw material in order to establish his right to have it thrown out-which occasionally has made prosecutors turn over to mob lawyers years of tap-recorded phone conversations...
...several hundred street people in Berkeley marched up Telegraph Avenue after a rally, breaking windows, smashing parking meters, looting a jewelry store and nearly overturning a new Buick from a dealer's lot. They were in for a surprise. Only 14 cops showed up to deal with the mob, armed with something new: large-bore guns that fire five wooden plugs from a single cartridge. The plugs spread out and tumble in flight...
...summer for which Wilson is bracing threatens to be enflamed by mob violence as well as street crime. Keeping mass demonstrations from turning into ugly rampages is Wilson's specialty. His method is not blind force but simple astuteness. At first, his approach made Attorney General Mitchell and his staff skeptical. But when the Justice Department briefed police forces around the country last month on the subject of summer demonstrations, it distributed a detailed description of Wilson's "model" methods...
After the Army, Stanley drifted into college on the G.I. Bill. He dropped out just as easily to join the police force after aiding three patrolmen who had been attacked by a street mob. Being a policeman is simply a job. Stanley performs it with the same detached competence he displayed shooting Vietnamese. But the civil service turns out not to be the secure coop it once was. Racism and radical politics have besieged its encrusted prerogatives and cherished prejudices. Many policemen respond to the situation by joining Alamo, an unofficial organization dedicated to superpatriotism and the myth...
...taken lightly by the organization. Recently at M. I. T. there were fistfights between the two factions. In March, at the Boston Moratorium, run by the SMC, SDS had to storm the stage to get a speaker. Earlier, at the November March on Washington, run by the New Mob, some people crowded around the speakers platform were most reluctant to let Senator Goodell speak, and those running the show feared that the platform would be rushed, splitting of political hairs. The garments as rhetorical quibbling and upon first being exposed to the kind of debates that went...