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...Washington, officials were frankly worried about the possibility that a radical group might try to kidnap or assassinate a U.S. official or a foreign diplomat. Rarely has the capital been so security conscious. "I'm sorry, but we've got to think paranoid," said one of the government's top security officials last week. Secretary of State William Rogers and other high officials have been urged to vary the routes they follow to and from their offices. The Secret Service is rapidly adding 300 more men to a recently created 550-man Executive Protective Service assigned to guard the embassies...
...says, "I could play the criminal aspects of my life down some, but then it wouldn't be me." He has to understand the social roots of his criminality, not to forgive himself but to know who he is, what he is capable of becoming: "Did I colonize kidnap make war on myself, and neglect myself, steal my identity, and then being reduced to nothing, invent a competitive economy knowing I cannot compete?" He is then ready for the transformation of the last letters, for his "meeting" with the Panthers, with the idea of a revolution that transcends color...
Angela was wanted by California authorities for allegedly supplying the guns used by the kidnapers in last summer's bloody Marin County courthouse shootout (TIME, Aug. 24). A onetime member of the Black Panther Party, she often traveled the state raising money and organizing the defense of the Soledad Three, a trio of blacks accused of killing a California prison guard. A frequent companion, Jonathan Jackson, was a leader in the courthouse kidnap attempt...
...first two years. The House-passed bill, including Nixon's request, was approved by the Senate last week, 59 to 0. The Senate also tacked on other provisions that would permit FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, make it a federal crime to assassinate, assault or kidnap a member of Congress, and permit a death penalty for a fatal bombing or the assassination of a Congressman...
...talk about the plight of McLucas, Newton declaimed about conditions in Angola and the Panthers' communications with Hanoi. The real issue, however, was much closer to home. McLucas, 24, is the first of eight Panthers, Scale among them, to be tried on charges that include conspiracy to kidnap and murder Alex Rackley, a party member who was suspected of being a police informer...