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...Homosexual!" With cause, the homosexuals were protesting police harassment, Mafia control of some gay bars and other injustices. Some sociologists reckon that the nation's homosexual population, open and secret, is about 4,000,000, and so the new aggressiveness has a large potential. One picket sign in the Los Angeles parade sought to point the way: BETTER BLATANT THAN LATENT...
Evidently not. In Seoul, South Korea's Defense Ministry reported that one of its patrol vessels had been captured, not sunk, at roughly the point cited by North Korea. The Seoul vessel had been on picket duty, assigned to warn South Korean fishermen when they strayed too close to Communist waters. A slow, unwieldy tub, armed only with a single .50-cal. machine gun, it would have been no match for its speedy, heavily armed North Korean captors. In Washington, the U.S. Navy flatly denied that any U.S. ships had been operating in the area...
...dirty dogs" and then personally helped remove 29 Constitution-Journal vending boxes from state government grounds. He called for an advertising boycott against the "leftist management of the fishwrappers," urged readers to stop buying the papers until they "apologize to the people of Georgia," and announced that he would picket the papers' offices. Maddox acknowledged that his boycott and picketing gambits were inspired by the civil rights movement. "If it works for them," he said, "I think it will work much better for me because I'm right...
...left its mandate largely undefined. The committee then took upon itself the responsibility of drawing up tactical plans for ratification by later mass meetings. Within a week, the strike steering committee was in deep trouble. Enough moderates came to a mass meeting to vote down proposals for further obstructive picket lines around University Hall, and to pass a motion calling for political action to be directed outside the University, and reducing the strike steering committee's power to negligible proportions. The steering committee splintered over the issue: a majority of the committee voted to reject the mass meeting's decision...
...also placed five students under varying degrees of warning for the May 11 picketing. Four other students who had already been suspended until February for prior infractions were given extended te?ms of suspension until June for participating in the May 16 picket...