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...Committee circulated a recall petition against the four school board members who had voted for the plan and got a surprising 130,000 signatures. At the subsequent election, all four were voted out of office in the first successful recall in Detroit's history. Said Edward Zaleski, a policeman and a founder of the Citizens' Committee: "We were fighting for our children. They were fighting only for an idea...
...evidence against Blustein consisted of a written statement by University policeman Larry T. Murphy in which he said he "saw (her) in the group" but "was too far away to determine whether or not (she) was shouting...
Sensitive Equipment. Eventually a local policeman called on Rowlands, but he left unconvinced. Then came a second officer, and Rowlands asked him to turn off his walkie-talkie so that the thieves' taped conversations could be heard more clearly. Soon four other constables and a sergeant closed in on Rowlands' flat, fearful that their mate might be having his "head kicked in" because they could not reach him on his walkie-talkie. The six policemen left Rowlands to his monitoring and took no action...
Indeed it had. In a week of increasing violence, four more British soldiers and one policeman were killed by gunmen. Protestant youths hurled fire bombs into a bus carrying handicapped Catholic schoolchildren, three of whom were hospitalized with burns. Another crowd set fire to a Catholic school, and a Catholic mob exploded a bomb outside a Protestant youth club...
...York women demonstrate the changing-but not completely changed-attitudes. Sarah, the 47-year-old wife of a policeman and mother of four, underwent four illegal abortions years ago in order to space out the arrival of her children. She remembers the operations as sordid and painful, still has difficulty discussing them and regrets that she had to "play God with my children." Her eldest daughter, Jane, 25, an attractive college graduate married to a systems engineer, has had two abortions. Jane had an illegal out-of-state operation 16 months ago because she wanted to finish her studies...