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Though National Guardsmen have not been needed to quell their disorders, in the past three years U.S. high schools have become far more frequently troubled than college campuses ever were. Almost two-thirds of the nation's high schools?expensive new suburban complexes as well as the blackboard jungles of inner cities?have suffered disruptions. The incidents range from peaceful sit-ins protesting censorship of the student paper to savage riots between blacks and whites. Last week a fresh report from one of the worst battlefields, New York City, suggested that schools have themselves partly to blame...
...declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests of the republic") were shouted down by mobs of starkers tribesmen. Those who actually put on clothes had them torn off their backs by uncompromising sans-culottes and were forced to eat the shreds. Troops had to quell a riot that broke out near Moroto, the dusty district capital, when the edict was proclaimed...
...today appear to be insufficient." The Premier blamed the lethargic structures of government, which he is trying to change, for allowing bloody street battles to erupt all over Italy in recent months between right-and left-wing extremists. Colombo called out the army as well as the police to quell what he called "these infantile and dangerous attempts by extremists" of both wings to unsettle the center-left coalition. At the same time, in a rare move for an Italian Premier, he met privately with protesters to hear their demands for social improvements...
Initially, the killings at Kent State and the after-math follow the same pattern: disorder breaks out, deadly force is called in to quell it, people are shot at random, evidence is suppressed, and a kangaroo tribunal returns indictments against the victims while clearing the killers. This is what happened during the summer and early fall at Kent: a grand jury cleared the Guardsmen, while indicting 25 students on charges of riot, arson, and unlawful assembly. The report-including a passage which stated that the responsibility for the shootings lay with the students, faculty, and Administration of the University...
...Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess reported that the dead man, an unidentified Chicano, had been shot in the head and chest by shotgun blasts. Deputy sheriffs called out to quell the disturbance had fired shotguns. The number of wounded could not be determined immediately...