Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city cop on the ghetto beat, constant tension has long been commonplace. But in 1970, there is a new and special kind of peril; in his patrol car or on the sidewalk, the policeman knows that at any moment a sniper's rifle may be trained on him from an unlit alley or a nearby rooftop. Thus far this year, 16 police officers have been killed in unprovoked attacks, more than double the FBI-computed total for all of 1969 and nearly four times the annual average for the past ten years. At least 57 have died...
...sources of irritation between cops and ghetto residents is the tough treatment that blacks often get from the police. Last week, after the Philadelphia police deaths, police raided three Black Panther headquarters and at one of them forced the male blacks to strip on the sidewalk for a search. To ease tension during large-scale demonstrations, John Spiegel of Brandeis suggests a variation of the student marshal system used to cool the crowds during the May 1 pro-Panther rally on the New Haven Green. If neighborhood marshals were put to good use where confrontation is likely, they might...
...rush hour ("You mean trucks and women keep left" was one scornful reply), but to no avail. Chanting, singing, waving posters, carrying babies, cajoling men friends along the line of march into joining them, they took over the entire avenue, providing not only protest but some of the best sidewalk ogling in years...
...Government workers, assembled only at lunch, though some participated in a teach-in at the Old Senate Office Building later in the day, and opened lobbying efforts for the equal rights for women amendment, which is to be considered by the Senate. Los Angeles liberationists were confined to the sidewalk during their march, which drew only 500. Seven women dressed in suffragette costumes stood a "silent vigil" for women's rights during the day at the Federal Building...
...days. For another, the festive spirit and near absence of smog apparently enticed more shoppers into mid-Manhattan. Suddenly the avenue was full of baby carriages, bicyclists, street musicians and smiling couples, all reveling in the car-free quiet and safety of what had become a wall-to-wall sidewalk...