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...Although charges have not been filed, the FBI linked several suspects in the Brighton robbery to a robbery in Beverly Hills, Calif., an aborted hold-up in New York and a planned heist in San Francisco. The new charges bring the number of actual robberies involving the suspects to four. Gilday, the alleged triggerman who fired the bullet killing Patrolman Schroeder, was not involved in any of the previous robberies, according...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about... 'why?' | 10/6/1970 | See Source »

...stolen cash. Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, 42, a hero cop and father of nine, tried to head them off- only to be cut down and left dying by a burst of gunfire. When the police were able to piece together what had happened last week, the bank heist appeared to be a bold and bloody new departure in radical-student lawlessness...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. Mccarthy, S | Title: A Bank Is Robbed, A Cop Is Killed, A Movement Is Hung | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Many of the East European refugees are fleeing harsh repression at home and can find no other way of getting to another country. So far, none has damaged an aircraft or injured any of its passengers. In comparing the successful Hungarian heist with the nightmare hijackings carried out by Palestinian commandos, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeititng editorialized: "The Palestinian extremists want to terrorize by taking hostages, while the young Poles, Czechs, East Germans or Hungarians want to shake from their shoes the dust of hermetically closed territories. This difference in motivation and mentality will have to be kept in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Good v. Bad Hijackers | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

Last winter and spring, the French Maoists firmly established themselves on the outer fringes of the lunatic left with a series of riots, bomb attacks and a daring caviar and foie gras heist in broad daylight at Fauchon, the epicures' haul grocery of Paris. Next, one of their leaders, Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Maoist Summer Festival | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...very black because the money is hidden in a bale of Mississippi cotton, and the pursuing detectives crash into a watermelon stand, and everybody goes around saying "nigger" and "Is that black enough for you?" Biggest joke: when the detectives discover that a white man was in on the heist, Cambridge rumbles, "Honkies in the woodpile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honkies in the Woodpile | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

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