Word: reportable
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Provocative Obscenity. Words had such great force in the Chicago confrontation that the report must be the first in U.S. Government history to print "the actual obscenities used by the participants-demonstrators and police alike." The Walker study explains that the "extremely obscene language was a contributing factor to the violence" and "its frequency and intensity were such that to omit it would inevitably understate the effect it had." Since the report is otherwise couched largely in the turgid prose common to bureaucracy, the insertion of so many pungent Anglo-Saxon expletives relating to or synonymous with copulation creates...
...convince some policemen that their opponents were scarcely human-and they all too often shed their own humanity. Witnesses frequently noted that if a demonstrator being chased by police got away, the cops would simply club whoever else was handy. A Chicago doctor drove up to one officer to report that protesters were dumping trash baskets into the street. The officer snapped: "Listen, you goddam - -, get this - car out of here." When the doctor tried to explain, the cop shouted: "Listen, you son of a bitch, didn't you hear me the first time?" and pounded a dent...
...still seems incredible that in the days of violence no one was killed. Occasionally, trapped policemen would fire in the air. One unidentified civilian fired three shots, but no witness could discover his target. Nevertheless, the report is a warning that another confrontation might not be so fortunate. It notes: "To read dispassionately the hundreds of statements describing at firsthand the events of Sunday and Monday nights is to become convinced of the presence of what can only be called a police riot...
LIFE points out in its current issue that the police districts known to be the most corrupt in Chicago also held the record for some of the worst violence last August. As the Walker report comments, there has been no public condemnation of "these violators of sound police procedures and common decency by either their commanding officers or city officials." Nor, when the report was being completed-nearly three months after the convention-had any disciplinary action been taken against most of the violators. But the Walker investigation may have had some effect on Chicago: last week, just before...
Ahlers even leaked a report that in a message to Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had attempted to blackmail Bonn into raising the value of the Deutsche Mark by threatening to withdraw Britain's 48,500-man Army of the Rhine from West Germany. In the House of Commons, Wilson flatly denounced Ahlers' story as "quite false." "I deplore this," said the Prime Minister, adding: "I have never known such a thing in four years of communications with over 100 heads of government...