Word: violent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone." Yet as the segregation battle moved from the South (where today 46% of blacks attend schools with white majorities) to the North (where less than 30% do), the goal of racial accommodation was thrown into violent question...
...Washington, D.C., a law enforcement research organization, upsets almost every facile objection to women on patrol. The survey compared 86 male with 86 female officers on the capital's police force for a year and found little difference in the abilities of men and women to deal with violent, or potentially violent, situations. Women were found to be similar or equal to men in the percentage of arrests they made that resulted in conviction, their attitude toward the public, the number of incidents they were involved in that required back-up support from other officers, the number of injuries...
Within months, Rose had roamed deeper into the violent politics of Northern Ireland and was being sought by police for I.R.A.-connected gunrunning and the attempted helicopter bombing of an Ulster police station. Rose was also suspected of being among a group who in March hijacked a police car in the Irish Republic. Police believe that she also helped write the ransom note demanding $1,250,000 plus the transfer of four jailed Irish terrorists from Britain to Ulster in return for the masterpieces stolen from Sir Alfred...
...with each other) and distributing the plunder of the territorial banks among the poor folk. According to their wanted circular, they are "known to have many friends among Indians, Mexicans, Poor Whites and Other Colored People." They are pursued by a rabid white marshal, and naturally they meet a violent...
Rogers explained that older Portuguese who remember the widespread unrest that existed before 1926 under the former Republic will support the military against the students if prolonged violent clashes take place...