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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treasurer was shot dead by Oakland police after a gun battle. In August, three other members were killed in a shooting match with Los Angeles police. Shortly after Newton was convicted, two Oakland policemen drove a patrol car past the Panthers' local headquarters and riddled the front window with bullets. The men, on duty but obviously drunk, were immediately suspended from the force and charged with a felony...
...burglar movie has 999 lives. And for good reason: the suspense of the well-planned caper, the guaranteed palm-sweating factor in window-ledge gymnastics, the romantic appeal of the Lone Wolf against Society. He Who Rides a Tiger is a low-budget British import that delivers all these with a handsome bonus as well-some real characters worth caring about...
...eleven-headed image of the Buddhist god of mercy. It was cast into the gutter behind Lhasa's ravaged Tsukla-khang (Central Temple) amid burning sutras and tantric scriptures. The last 400 of Tibet's former 150,000 monks and lamas, who were kept on as window dressing, have now been stripped of their russet robes. All forms of religious life have been harshly suppressed. Red Guards relentlessly destroy household altars. Their favorite punishment for Tibetans caught practicing religious rites is to lock them in a room, tell them that "your God will supply you food," and abandon...
After Huie denounced Wallace on a lecture tour in 1964, the Governor went on television to tongue-lash the writer. Getting the message, racists made abusive phone calls. For four nights, a procession of cars drove slowly around his block while Huie stood by the window with his riot gun. In July, when a cross was burned on his lawn, he wired Governor Albert Brewer, pointing out that since Wallace is given state protection, his enemies should have it too. Brewer agreed to give him what he wanted, and now the local police provide frequent patrolling...
According to police, the sniper fired from a window perch in the rooming house. Stephens told authorities that seconds after the shots rang out he had seen a stranger hurrying down the stairs from the second floor, carrying a package that presumably concealed the murder weapon. Days later, he identified the man from photos as James Earl Ray, who was eventually seized in England and charged with King's murder...