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...tell you. It's not who you are but where you are that counts. For years, in addition to constant mispronunciations of my first name, I had to endure the humiliation of being assigned to an all-boy cabin in summer camp, and the embarrassment of an arrest warrant for failure to pay a male poll tax when I lived in Brookline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1977 | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...drive in behalf of marijuana's medical applications, also occupies Humes's mind these days. He is wanted in New Jersey on four felony counts, including possession of a dangerous substance (marijuana), assault and battery on a police officer while armed, and two counts of resisting arrest. The arrest warrants on these charges were issued four years ago, arising out of two 1973 incidents in Princeton. Humes left New Jersey before the case was ever brought to trial, and after three years elapsed he was convinced that he should expect no further action on the matter from the state...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A Healer on the Lam | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...area in the early '70s, and he decided to look into the matter by systematically collecting samples of the worst batches of chemically-strengthened marijuana. Princeton police placed Humes under arrest for marijuana possession on July 16, 1973 during a routine visit to serve him with another arrest warrant for a probation violation. He was taken into custody for having collected the samples. A month later, Humes was arrested again for allegedly striking a police officer with a walking stick. On August 12, 1973, Humes was charged with assault and battery on a police officer and two counts of resisting...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A Healer on the Lam | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

Humes says he arranged the hearing with Jones, the governor's assistant legal counsel, primarily to try to persuade the state of Massachusetts to join Humes in a criminal libel suit against the state of New Jersey. Humes claims he was never served the warrant for his arrest issued by Jones, but a state police officer yesterday gave a different version of the sequence of events leading to Hume's present at-large status. According to the officer, who asked not to be identified, a suspect on whom an "out-of-state" warrant is issued has 90 days in which...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: A Healer on the Lam | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

...into the van himself and was made comfortable. He was ill at various stages, but that was after [we had requested] medical advice as to whether he could travel and they said he could. [In Pretoria], he was put in a prison cell because that was the warrant and they immediately tried to get hold of a doctor. But the soonest they could reach him was early afternoon, so Biko was left [in prison] and treated there; that evening he died. I have never said that he died of hunger; he had definitely been on a hunger strike. He refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: I Must Keep This Country Safe | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

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