Milestones: Fifty years old . . . the KGB. Odd how closely its anniversary follows on the jubilee of the Revolution itself, particularly with Lenin being such an idealist.
In the urban riots last summer 83 persons were killed, many thousands wounded and more than a billion dollars worth of property destroyed. A recent check of the main combat areas shows, for example: Detroit—of 7,231 arrested, forty in jail, mostly because of previous crimes, and a thousand at liberty who may be tried at some vague later date, mostly on minor charges; Boston—35 in total arrested after three days of mass rioting, bloodshed, looting and arson, five fined $500 each and three given three months in jail; Milwaukee—virtually all of the 1,323 arrested given suspended sentences; Cincinnati—the 404 arrested, with a handful of exceptions, allowed to plead guilty and given small fines or suspended sentences. In no cases have rioters been given longterm prison sentences or fines of more than a few hundred dollars. On the record, could even Earl Warren explain why a city dweller, if it struck his fancy, should not join in fueling the fire next time?
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