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...alliance of S.N.C.C. and CORE, denouncing King's Chicago housing accord as "treasonous" and a sellout, threatened last week to defy King's truce-and hopes for racial peace in Chicago-by marching into whites-only Cicero (TIME, Sept. 2) as King had planned to do before Chicago leaders met his demands. Some members voiced hopes for violence that would tarnish King's philosophy of nonviolence. In anticipation of "the tumult, riot or mob disorder" that might result from the march. Governor Otto Kerner at week's end activated some 2,000 National Guardsmen for duty...
...live"-and Father Groppi's pickets looked to new targets among the Eagles on the bench. They marched outside the home of County Judge Christ Seraphim and threatened to lay siege to the home of Judge Robert Hansen. At week's end, however, a partial truce was arranged by state officials, and Father Groppi agreed to stay out of Milwaukee's police short suburbs after dark during the Labor Day weekend...
...going for them: they never carry firearms in the course of ordinary duty. The theory is that thugs are less inclined to pack a gun themselves if they know the cops will not shoot. Though only 24 British policemen have been killed in the last 55 years, the tacit truce between cops and crooks is occasionally shattered-as in the fatal shooting of three policemen last week on a London street...
...steady, now twitch nervously upward?only to fall again. Market analysts, always ready with reasons, have exercised considerable imagination in explaining the day-by-day declines. Thus, on May 31, industrials dropped 12.97 points, and analysts said the trouble was a peace scare based on rumors about Viet Nam truce talks. On June 29, the average fell 9.30 points, and the drop was attributed to a war scare because the U.S. was stepping up its bombing efforts against North Viet...
...role for the press would allow for a truce between these two warring factions, which would allow them both to cooperate in analyzing the realistic foreign affairs options open to the government...