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Attorney General John Mitchell claimed that his speech last week to the California Peace Officers' Association amounted to a plea for restraint by lawmen in their confrontations with political dissenters, and to be sure much of the speech was exactly that. But what Mitchell had to say in San Francisco contained a couple of unhappy postscripts to the mass arrests during Washington's Mayday protest. More than 12,000 people were rounded up, often indiscriminately, herded into makeshift compounds and held as long as 36 hours with neither arraignment nor the chance to raise bail. To clear...
...addition to the FBI documents, the latest packet contains a mimeographed plea for funds from RESIST, stating that the cost of xeroxing and distributing the stolen FBI material is becoming prohibitive. The message asks newspapers to help defray the cost...
...sharply increase a tax on commuters' income earned in the city. Such a measure would pour about $500 million into the city's parched treasury. His plan had better work, because Governor Rockefeller is not likely to be of much help. The same day Lindsay made his plea, Rockefeller's budget officials announced that the state was dismissing 8,250 employees, many of them in key health programs...
Minute-by-Minute. Michener's book, at one level, is a plea for concessions between generations. Noting that most of those calling for more bloodshed were women, he finds a sexual basis to much of the conflict. Women resent the bra-lessness and supposed bed hopping of today's coeds. Men seem to envy a sexual freedom they did not know as youths. Nothing quite so enraged Guardsmen, Michener claims, as the middle-finger gestures of Kent girls, their obscenities, their appearing naked at dormitory windows to invite the troops to "make love...
...upon occasion, it destroys the college careers of young men like Ray Ollwerther, Princeton '71. Despite Ollwerther's poignant plea to Tiger pride last November 13th, Yale defeated Princeton again, 27-22, for the fourth consecutive year. It's enough to make even Amory Blaine reconsider...