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Llano must have been near Grabow, though, and I know that 20 years earlier Covington Hall had lived there too. Perhaps he had stayed somewhere in the huge lumber camps, for he had been organizing the workers there, goading them into rebellion, publishing a paper called The Voice of the People. The workers had strck: the Galloway Lumber Company, which owned the town, had posted armed guards; and on a hot summer day in 1912 the strikers and guards had gotten into a shooting match that left three dead and 48 wounded. Perhaps the Galloway lumber camps are, there...
...Although all black political groups were banned after the 1960 Sharpevill massacre, more than 50,000 African workers were involved last year in work stoppages at 120 factories and organizations. Unless an African group receives prior consent from the government to strike, action is treated as a rebellion against the government, and the workers are disbanded accordingly. At least 130 black miners were killed last year by soldiers brought in to break up strikes...
There is a political protest struggling to be born out in the country. If it makes it self heard, eventually it may ask something like this: Why are we repeatedly forced to choose our Presidents from the Congress? There is no rebellion yet, but there is at least a rising murmur at the spectacle of ten of the 16 presidential possibilities being products of Capitol Hill...
Inconclusive Debate. The issue is not new. In the late 1960s, stunned by the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, urban disorder, student rebellion and widespread social tumult, public servants and assorted experts furiously, and inconclusively, debated the role of television in feeding violence. This time, however, the controversy has centered more on newsmagazines. In last Wednesday's New York Times, Columnist William V. Shannon, Novelist Saul Bellow and Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz separately lambasted TIME and Newsweek for putting Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme on their covers. In Washington, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott asked rhetorically...
...might use some Irish terrorists to help combat the Irish-laden Friars. By last night, he was wishing that he had. "We needed a whole flock of them," McCurdy said. "As a matter of fact, though, yesterday it felt like we were right in the middle of a rebellion...