Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goods v. Lives. The low "kill-rate," to borrow an unhappy term from the other war, was due in large measure to lessons learned from three years of urban upheaval. Heeding the advice of the Kerner riot-commission report, which warned that "the use of excessive force-even the inappropriate display of weapons-may be inflammatory and lead to worse disorder," lawmen in most cities refrained from gunplay, and magistrates quickly processed those arrested for rioting, setting low bail as the commission suggested. There were few black snipers on the rooftops; on the streets, police and National Guardsmen mostly kept...
...Kansas City Chiefs' Football Stars Curtis McClinton and Buck Buchanan (both black), cooled the crowd. But then, as the youngsters began boarding buses, Kansas City police responded to a thrown pop bottle with a popping of tear-gas bombs. During the rock concert itself, officers investigating a report of a glass-breaking incident heard the tumult from the church basement and hurled tear gas inside, routing the kids. That added fuel to a rampage resulting in 250 fires, $500,000 damage in looting and burning, 65 injuries and six deaths-all of them Negroes shot by cops...
However, to make an overnight trip from Memphis to Atlanta-382 miles-in so conspicuous a car being sought by police would be almost as bold a move as the shooting itself. Adding to the confusion was a new report that there had been two white Mustangs parked near the rooming house on Memphis' South Main Street, the origin of the single fatal bullet...
...furor was set off by Amnesty International, a London-based organization, in a detailed report compiled by investigators who recently spent four weeks in Greece. The investigators charged that some of the junta's prisoners have been subjected to systematic tortures, including beatings on the soles of the feet and electric shocks to the genitals. The British government immediately buttressed the report by declaring its belief that prisoners have indeed been inhumanely treated...
Paradoxically, the first fact to be faced is a happy one: there is much evidence suggesting that violent crime in the U.S. has-at least until recently-not been increasing relative to the population. Although the FBI reports a 35% total increase during the 1960s, many experts argue that this figure overlooks population growth, improved police statistics and the new willingness of the poor to report crimes that used to go unrecorded. On the whole, Americans are now more apt to settle their arguments through legal redress, or at least nonviolent cunning, rather than with fists, knives and guns. Organized...