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...HAVEN, CONN. - A Superior Court judge dismissed charges Tuesday against Balck Panther chairman Bobby G. Seale and Ericka Huggins, because, he said, massive publicity made it impossible to select another jury that would be impartial...
...indeed, a puzzle that the Nazis thought it worth while to attack in this area at this stage of the war. One ingenious explanation, offered by some U.S. Seventh Army officers, was that Nazi General Hermann Balck had hastily committed his best units to action in order to keep the German High Command from taking them away. Balck had two or more Panzer or Panzer grenadier divisions, one of mountain troops from Norway, one of SS infantry, one of paratroops-a parcel of the Wehrmacht's best...
Doughfoot in a Barrel. When Balck threatened to envelop U.S. Seventh Army units on the left, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch pulled back ten miles, leaving some Maginot Line positions to the Germans. They followed the withdrawal, pierced the new line, crossed the small Moder River. Then the Seventh counterattacked and the Germans backed up. They seemed to need reinforcements and they seemed not to be getting...
...Wasp and the Fire. Meanwhile, the Germans, kept up their diversionary offensive in Alsace-Lorraine. This show was commanded by a rough-&-tumble general named Hermann Balck, who had distinguished himself in the Nazi retreat up the Rhône valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket...
This week Balck was thrusting with tanks and flamethrowers into the Seventh Army's Maginot Line positions near Haguenau. It seemed likely that these harassments would continue at least until the Ardennes situation was stabilized. To Eisenhower, Balck's offensive was like a wasp snarling around a man who is trying to put out a fire...