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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force" to stop the burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy...
...hard-liners noted that in the confusion of a riot, police would have to be veritable Lone Rangers in their marksmanship to pick off arsonists or to "maim" running looters, supposedly hitting them in the legs to bring them down. Moreover, warned U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the indiscriminate use of "deadly force" could lead to "a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving...
Like most corporations, he said. Harvard "claims to be paralyzed." Calling this a fatalistic attitude, Traynham warned that "those with power had better learn how to use that power" or else suffer the consequences of "the inevitable explosion...
...worrying about what the Faculty would think that confused freshmen. And attempts by teachers to go too far into sociology puts them where they are often weakest instead of most helpful. Their desire to seem academically legitimate in a society that defines intelligence in terms of the ability to use language sometimes makes an uneasy tension...
Ford did, however, direct the government to make a variety of material available to the defendants, including written or recorded statements by any of the defendants, other recordings and films, and any books or documents the government might be planning to use at the trial. The material must be given to the defendants at least 10 days before the trial, Ford said...