Word: weatherman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weatherman leader Eric M. Mann was sentenced to a year in jail last Wednesday on three counts of assault and battery stemming from the disruption on September 25 of Harvard's Center for International Affairs (CFIA...
...Also in Cambridge, police arrested 15 young men and nine women said to be members of the supermilitant Weatherman faction of S.D.S. Raids on three apartments netted a small arsenal: one shotgun, three rifles and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition. All 24 were charged with conspiracy to commit murder by firing two shots through the front window of the Cambridge police station earlier this month...
...Washington, a Moratorium leader Stephen Cohen, accused Weatherman leaders of trying to "shake down" his committee by demanding $20,000 in return for pledging nonviolence during the peace demonstrations. "We politely told them to get lost," said Cohen. The Weathermen say that they asked for help in paying the massive legal fees that have piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen...
Ways and Means. S.D.S. is broken into so many factions on most campuses that its energies are being dissipated by internal haggling. Although distinctions between the S.D.S. factions are blurry, there are three principal wings: the Worker-Student Alliance, the Revolutionary Youth Movement 1 (Weatherman) and the Revolutionary Youth Movement 2. All are committed to the notion of a more or less violent revolution in America, but they differ over ways and means...
...trouble began at 12:45 p. m., after Weatherman leader Eric M. Mann arrived at headquarter to give himself up to the police. A group of Weathermen had been waiting for him outside the headquarters...