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Shortly before dawn one day last week, while riots in the Puerto Rican section of Camden, N.J., were diverting the local police, eight men and women stole into the federal offices in the courthouse. They were determined to steal or destroy FBI documents and federal draft records. Instead, they stepped into a well-laid trap. Three floors below the Government offices, a team of FBI agents awaited their furtive entrance. By the time the roundup was completed, the agents had nabbed the eight intruders as well as 20 of their confederates who had been assigned various sentinel and communications tasks...
With the Sunday paper for sheet and blanket and a tombstone as headboard, the two young men sleeping in Boston's historic Old Granary Burying Ground last week looked at first glance like a thousand others of the city's derelicts. Waking at dawn, they warmed up in the Park Street subway station, washed their dirty faces in the Trailways bus terminal, then looked for work at a day-labor hiring hall. In fact, there was only one thing that separated Frank Huszar and Peter Dahm from the mob of down-and-outers in the hall. The others...
Psychopathic Revulsion. At dawn one morning last week, soldiers began hammering on doors in Belfast, Londonderry and half a dozen smaller towns in Ulster, rounding up some 300 suspected members of the I.R.A. "We are acting," said Faulkner, "not to suppress freedom but to allow the overwhelming mass of our people to enjoy freedom from fear of the gunman, of the nightly explosion, of kangaroo courts and all the apparatus of terrorism." Then in a mild concession to Catholic opinion, he slapped a six-month ban on all parades, including the potentially explosive Apprentice Boys of Derry march scheduled...
...dawn broke along a 35-mile stretch of the Jordan River and its tributary the Yarmuk last week, Israeli soldiers gaped in disbelief. In ones and twos or even in whole squads, scores of bedraggled Arabs broke from the concealment of reed beds on the Jordanian banks and splashed across the 30-yard-wide, green-flecked rivers with white undershirts tied to their rifles in a sign of surrender. Many also held up green I.D. cards certifying them as fedayeen, the Palestinian "men of sacrifice" who are sworn to destroy Israel...
...BELEN, N. MEX. The caboose is no Pullman car, but it is comfortable enough with folded-down seats to sleep on, a lavatory, a small refrigerator, a water cooler and an oil stove, which serves to heat the car and warm the breakfast coffee cake. The desert dawn is bright and clear; the sun backlights the Manzano Mountains to the east. The train climbs continually to the Continental Divide crossing at Gonzales. "Back in the days of hand-fired steam locomotives, we were real glad to get here," says Ray Derksen, acting train master at Gallup. Derksen points...