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...from those days, they have nailed chicken wire over the windows, to prevent hand grenades from being lobbed in. In such campaigns, security is tight. Sentries are posted on nearby streets to watch for strangers in the neighborhood. The food brought in to feed the garrison is checked for poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood in the Streets: Subculture of Violence | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...availability of firearms is undoubtedly a stimulus to murder. There are perhaps 115 million privately owned guns in the U.S., almost one for every male between 14 and 65. Indeed, guns are used in 65% of all U.S. killings. Twenty percent of the victims are dispatched by knife, while poison is rarely used. In Manhattan, there have been two recent cases of murder by bow and arrow, and some years ago another New Yorker attempted murder by rattlesnake. As Princess Sita observed in Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic of nonviolence: "The very bearing of weapons changeth the mind of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Psychology of Murder | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...negative example can be really used only by exposing and criticizing them. All reactionary fallacies and shameless slanders by these teachers are at once openly reactionary and fairly deceptive. If no earnest study and incisive criticism are carried out, people often cannot discern and understand very well where the poison is and how deceptive these fallacies and slanders are. Only through revolutionary mass cricism in which such wares have been thoroughly criticized and reactionary fallacies refuted and their deceptive and counter-revolutionary essence exposed can the masses' militant determination to struggle against the enemy be stimulated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Escalation to End Detente? | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

...first sour notes of Mary Sol (Sea and Sun) were struck in the airports of New York, Boston and other cities, where the charter flights could not accommodate the tribes of ticket holders. Once there, they were harassed by the scorching sun, poison ivy and voyeurs, but the kids remained largely cheerful throughout the festival, waiting in long lines for food, water and toilets. They stripped down and took to the sea, which in turn claimed three lives (two of them Puerto Rican). Although there was less evidence of drugs than usual at youth festivals, one youth was knifed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Woodstock's Last Gasp? | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...amendment passed. He tried to limit its scope to allow existing protective legislation to stand after passage. Ervin raised the specter of women "sent into combat, where they will be slaughtered or maimed by the bayonets, the bombs, the bullets, the hand grenades, the mines, the napalm, the poison gas and the shells of the enemy." Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III replied: "What we are doing is enunciating a principle in the Constitution of the U.S. There are and will be classifications based on sex which will be held not to deny or abridge any individual's equal rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: One Giant Leap For Womankind | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

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