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Decatur has a past. The celebrated Scottsboro boys case of the 1930s-in which eight of nine black youths were sentenced to death on highly dubious charges of raping two white women-was retried there and led to four new convictions. Decatur peacefully integrated its schools and public facilities in the 1960s, but as soon as Hines was indicted in June, racial tension began rising. Demonstrators from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader...
Defense Attorney Henry Sanders Mims asked that the trial be moved to a less hostile place. The alternative, Cullman, 30 miles away, was not much of an improvement. Only about 1% of its 14,200 people are black, so it was no surprise that the nine men and three women selected for the jury were all white. On the eve of the trial, Hines supporters began a protest march from Decatur to Cullman. They were stopped at the Cullman town line by police and jeering Klansmen. Twenty-three blacks were arrested...
...Italy's special antiterrorist squad. Visitors to the apartment were photographed as they entered the building and tailed as they left. Finally, the authorities were ready to strike. In a coordinated two-day sweep directed by Carlo Alberto Delia Chiesa, 58, a much-decorated carabinieri general, police arrested nine key members of the terrorist Red Brigades organization, broke into four of their hideouts and confiscated numerous arms and a wealth of material on terrorist activities...
...Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
...real story, though, appears to lie in the popularity of courses below Ec 10 on the popularity list. Of the remaining nine, at least five have the reputation of being less than academically rigorous, while another--Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry"--is considered quite tough, but can't be sidestepped by students with dreams of medical school...