Word: plainclothesmen
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...militant Jewish Defense League, who had just been convicted of "obstructing governmental administration" and disorderly conduct for his role in a Manhattan demonstration against Soviet diplomats. Kahane wanted to address the 750 delegates. Anxious to keep the proceedings orderly, the conference leaders refused him permission. Burly Belgian plainclothesmen packed Kahane off and subsequently put him on a London-bound plane. Some of the delegates were outraged. Movie Producer Otto Preminger said the conference, in its treatment of Kahane, was "as contemptible as the Russian Communists or the Nazis." Later, when he had cooled off, Preminger apologized. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky...
Suddenly, during Ryan's summation, police arrested John Pennington '68-4, National Secretary of SDS, and charged him with contempt of court. Then, after cutting Ryan off for the last time, Viola ordered the courtroom cleared. As one or two plainclothesmen ushered the coterie of Harvard officials into a safe corner, Ryan's witnesses and 75 spectators were forcefully driven out and away from the courtroom building. During the mel?c, police seized three other spectators on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to assault and battery on a policeman. All four arrested now face prison terms...
...When Judge Viola had the courtroom cleared, Cheyney's witnesses were dragged from the witness seats; the Harvard witnesses, Deans May and Williamson and Archibald Cox, were allowed to stay. Plainclothesmen inside punched and shoved a number of the spectators, and when the latter started calling for the Harvard representatives to come out, police produced clubs and beat students out of the courthouse and down several streets...
Late Saturday, four plainclothesmen seized one man. Alvaro Moralez, near the barricade, charging him with assault on a policeman and possession of a deadly weapon. Moralez yesterday denied the charges, saying that the unmarked police car had rushed at him and that he had thrown a brick in self-defense...
Greeks and Freaks. One evening at midmonth, there was a good-natured confrontation outside the student union between a group of "Greeks" (fraternity types) and "Freaks" (members of the university's long-hair set). Six city police rolled up and soon were reinforced by nightstick-toting plainclothesmen. There followed what by most accounts was a police riot: the cops went berserk, clubbing students and bystanders indiscriminately. Among the casualties was Senior Richard Winstead, a former all-state basketball star and campus beau ideal. Strolling on the Dekehouse lawn with a date, Winstead was wrestled into some bushes and stick...