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...aware that they no longer have any hope of winning the war militarily, the North Vietnamese strategists in Hanoi still insist that they will triumph. They are sure that the U.S. cannot wage conventional war against Red regulars and secure the countryside as well. "If the enemy tries to oppress the People's Movement in South Viet Nam," said General Vinh, "he will not be able to stop our reinforcements from North Viet Nam. If he concentrates all his forces to defeat us on the battlefield, he cannot protect his rear areas. To fight and secure his rear areas...
...Emotion. The 96-year-old statute under which they and a third Klansman, George H. Turner, were accused makes it a crime to "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States." Though the law was intended to encourage Negro voting, the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, April 8) recently opened the way for the trial by interpreting it to cover any attempt to block a citizen's right to interstate travel; at the time...
...prosecuted the 18 on federal charges growing out of an 1870 law. The Government accusations were based on two parts of the law. Section 241 makes it a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine for "two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the U.S." Section 242 prohibits people from acting "under color of any law" to deprive anyone of his federal rights, an offense punishable...
...Deliver us from white tolerance and understanding. Judging by TIME letters [Aug. 27], white people missed the point of the riots, which guarantees that they will happen again. For the first time, we have directed our hatred not at ourselves, but at the rightful objective, those who oppress us. For the first time, we have asserted our dignity, the dignity of rejecting what rejects us. If you still do not understand what the riots said, I will tell you. They said, "No, we do not love you"; they said, "Go to hell and take your slums with...
...commit, and not for the acts of their friends, family, or associates. When any person or organization commits or conspires to commit a crime designed to overthrow the established government by force or violence, or to deprive individuals of the rights of American citizens, or to in timidate or oppress persons in the exercise of their constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under our present system of laws, if their guilt can be established. The frightening aspect of Communist or Klan control laws is that...