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...kinds of data and much more will be processed for storage in the memory bank of a computer (one console of which will be located in the Pentagon.) Then operations will be developed to correlate and use them. To do what? To do things like estimate the number of riot police necessary to stop a ghetto rebellion in City X that might be triggered by event Y because of communications pattern K given Q number of political agitators of type Z; to plan a coup in country A where government B correctly assesses the needs of its people...

Author: By Marion B. Lennihan, | Title: Social Science for Social Control? | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

...prison system and society at large. He asked anyone who did not want to join a revolt to leave the hall immediately. Only 150 inmates stayed. Warden U. Samuel Vukcevich arrived to try to calm the disturbance, but within minutes he and the guards were overpowered. The riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Tragedy Averted | 12/6/1971 | See Source »

...Portage County, Ohio jury found Jerry Rupe guilty of interfering with firemen but was deadlocked over the felony counts of arson, first-degree riot, and assaulting a fireman. The jurymen were dismissed after eight hours of deliberation on the three felony charges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kent State Trial--One Guilty, One Not | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

Common Pleas Court Judge Albert L. Caris dismissed charges of arson and first-degree riot against the second defendant, Peter C. Bliek, on account of insufficient evidence. Four prosecution witnesses had been unable to place Bliek at the scene of the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kent State Trial--One Guilty, One Not | 12/1/1971 | See Source »

...result of lower U.S. military spending and aid and falling world prices for Thailand's chief exports: tin, rubber and rice. Crime is on the rise, including muggings and rapes. Bangkok has been the scene of a series of strikes, and only two weeks ago of a student riot, caused primarily by interschool rivalries, in which 158 youths were arrested. Rightly or wrongly, many Thais tended to blame the new institutions of democracy for preventing the government from cracking down on such disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The Same Old Crowd | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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