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Ironically all these safeguards of the American police state leave no good reason for the infamous McCarran Act, a legal dragnet for jailing radicals and communists without trial. Title II of this "emergency detention law," introduced by liberal Senators like Paul Douglas in 1950, allows the government to apprehend and detain anyone suspected of committing or conspiring to commit espionage or sabotage during national emergencies. But such an emergency cannot be declared unless there is war or "an insurrection in aid of a foreign enemy." The attempt to shut down Washington last Monday might have qualified here...
After escaping a police dragnet Friday, Gilday hid for more than 30 hours in a basement cellar. At 9 a.m. Sunday, he emerged in Haverhill, Mass. and forced his way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huberdeau while Huberdeau was out getting milk. Returning, Huberdeau found Gilday holding his wife at gun-point...
Police lost little time converging on Hampton Beach after the reported sighting of Gilday Thursday night. A police helicopter saw a man resembling his description run into the salt marshes and hovered over the area for several minutes spraying pepper gas on the area. Police set up a dragnet and skimmed through the swamp until dark. Gilday watched much of the bustle from a tree...
Gilday, who is 41 years old, stole two cars to avoid capture in a massive 800 man dragnet Friday. He was chased by an estimated 100 police cars and slightly wounded one of his pursuers. Saturday and Sunday police searched in vain for him in the northeastern corner of Massachusetts near the New Hampshire border...
...also doing some shuffling, but less than ever before. On the canceled list: / Dream of Jeannie, Daniel Boone, Dragnet '70, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Then Came Branson and My World and Welcome to It. In their place will go variety hours starring Black Comic Flip Wilson and Don Knotts (from the old Andy Griffith Show) plus Nancy, a sappy-sounding sitcom with Celeste Holm set in the White House. NBC has also taken on CBS Castoff Skelton, although for a half-hour at a time instead of an hour...