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...just a matter of participating," he said. "Everything that happens, we call Cambridge. Cambridge has enough problems of its own." A few months ago the patrolman got his riot gear, his tactical squad and intelligence support-through his new job with the Cambridge police...
...campus last May "should have shot all" troublemakers, and that the incidents were Communist-inspired. "I think the whole damn country is not going to quiet down until the police are ordered to shoot to kill." Of the Kent shootings, he said: "The point is, it stopped the riot-you can't argue with that. It just stopped it flat." As Ford spoke, according to Reporter William Schmidt, he toyed with a .45-cal. pistol he keeps near his desk and kidded: "I could shoot...
...rent at all and proclaim that, for Bandy and his property at least, the revolution was here. Bandy is poorly cast as Miffland's capitalist pig. He publicly criticized Mayor William Dyke in May 1969, when police broke up an unauthorized block party, touching off a three-day riot. Nevertheless, confronted by squatters, he dutifully took the law-and-order route -with unhappy results. When he sought a court order to evict them, he was turned down because he lacked an adequate description of his tenants or their names so that police could carry out the order...
...order man whose police are in a standstill cease-fire with Miffland, bemoans the permissiveness of the courts and the behavior of the Mifflanders, but he also expresses concern about the rights of Bandy's antagonists. His caution about a police move that might provoke a new riot is clearly justified by Miffland's history of police-student confrontations. Still, he would be neither human nor political if he did not have a smarting memory of Bandy's 1969 denunciation...
Fresh out of jail, the member for Mid-Ulster wore a bright red pantsuit to Britain's House of Commons for her swearing-in ceremony. Bernadette Devlin, who calls the destruction of the established order "my way of life," said she'd go a-rioting no more. Declared the young woman who was convicted of inciting to riot: "Rioting is an ineffective way of trying to gain one's ends." How about democratic means? "I am in Parliament," said Devlin, "with the intention of using it for my own ends...