Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honeymoon between the mayor and his white supporters ended in a shootout between police and black militants during his first year in office. Ten people, including three policemen, were killed during the gun fight, and Stokes' decision to remove white policemen from the black neighborhood -credited by some with averting a holocaust, criticized by others as giving in to militants-split the city along racial lines. Months later it was discovered that $10,000 of "Cleveland: Now!" funds had gone to a militant group, and part of the funds had been used to purchase guns for the bloody shootout...
...VIVA SUPERSTAR to play Cliffie in new Godard film with screenplay by Hilary Putnam. Plot concerns preppy jock from Winthrop House who falls in love with poor Cliffie on music scholarship who later dies in shootout with the pigs. With Mick Jagger and Joseph Rhodes Jr. Dean May announces Bernard Bailyn and Roger Rosenblatt to head Committee on Filmmaking and Curriculum Reform. Bailyn announces interim subcommittee for procedures to hammer out students. At extreme left is still from movie, showing SUPERSTAR (smiling) and F. SKIDDY von STADE JR. dedicating Mather House (center) as a day care facility...
...deputies and two prison matrons, she was whisked aboard a plane for the flight to Hamilton Air Force Base in California. Finally, after another heavily guarded auto procession, Angela Davis was locked up in the Marin County jail, a few hundred feet from the scene of the grisly courthouse shootout last August that she is accused of having helped plan...
...next door to where her hearing took place. On Aug. 7, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and four other people were taken hostage in the midst of a trial by the three defendants and a 17-year-old youth, who had smuggled guns into the courtroom. In a wild shootout with police that followed, three of the hostages were wounded. The judge and three of the fugitives were killed. Defendant Davis, who had taught philosophy at U.C.L.A. until last June, is accused of murder, conspiracy and kidnaping. Police alleged that she purchased and provided the four smuggled guns, which, under...
Black Militant Angela Davis, 26, currently in a Manhattan jail fighting extradition to California to face kidnap and murder charges for her alleged complicity in a shootout in which four were killed, was selected Honorary Homecoming Queen at California's predominantly white Sacramento City College...