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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, demonstrators defied Gordon's order. For four hours on Sunday night, several thousand unruly whites, blaring their cars' horns and shouting bitter epithets ("In God we trust, in Gordon we don't!" and "Keep the niggers out!"), clogged four-lane Preston Highway. Gradually, however, some 400 disciplined state troopers cleared the highway, sometimes smashing windshields or subduing demonstrators with 3-ft. riot sticks...
...list also included such entries as "Pacific Gas & Electric-nuclear plants," "Fish and Wildlife Service. Kills animals" and "all automobile companies." Good told the A.P. that the assassinations would be carried out by what she called "the International People's Court of Retribution," which she defined as "several thousand people throughout the world who love the earth, the children and their lives...
...unenthusiastic opinion of converting the plot into a park. He centers his objections around the "substantial" initial cost (for walks, lighting, and benches) and the "substantial costs" of maintenance (for caretaking, electricity, policing, and trash collection). Goyette ventures an estimate of $20,000 for the initial expenditure and several thousand dollars annually thereafter...
Stop Polluting. Good claimed that she and Fromme were members of an "international people's court" consisting of several thousand members throughout the world, who were prepared to "kill" the polluters of the air and water. Said she: "We're going to start assassinating Presidents, Vice Presidents and major executives of companies. I'm warning these people they better stop polluting or they're going...
...took no action against Mussolini. Haile Selassie returned to England, where he lived in a modest manor house outside Bath. Almost five years later, after the British army had driven the Italians from Addis Ababa, he returned to his mountain capital in triumph. His nation had lost several hundred thousand men in battle and in mass executions, but the Emperor issued orders to his countrymen that the Italian civilians who chose to stay in Ethiopia should be allowed to do so undisturbed...