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Humble Start. Marcos did nothing to help his popularity when he seized on the incident to invoke emergency powers. Warning of a Communist plot to burn Manila and kidnap public officials, he revoked habeas corpus and had nearly 100 people arrested, including a college president. Late last week 11 persons were charged with subversion and gun running...
...suspicions. One was that the phones of the organization RESIST, which he co-founded and often calls from elsewhere are very likely tapped, since the government has apparently even searched its trash; another was that he has spoken to a number of the Harrisburg defendants (accused of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger), some of whom the government has admitted tapping at some unspecified time...
Fred did not think so, but perhaps Fred was wrong. Perhaps Jackson did come to share the belief that had driven his brother to attempting to kidnap a judge. Perhaps, Jackson had arranged to have the gun and wig smuggled...
...congressional committees was wrong-although FBI agents were generally allowed to correct the mistakes before they were entered in the record. Mitchell was especially angered by the way in which Hoover endangered the Justice Department's case against the Rev. Philip Berrigan and others charged with conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger, Nixon's foreign-affairs adviser. Hoover insisted on telling a Senate subcommittee about the alleged plot last November, more than a month before a grand jury began to return indictments...
...government, but Washington can assemble innumerable grand juries to investigate Ellsberg. This point may seem superfluous, but it is important to remember that in calling the jury, the government also determines the locale and, therefore, the likely circumstances of the trial proceedings. The indictees in the alleged Kissinger-kidnap plot could have been tried appropriately in New York or Danbury or in any other city where "damning" letters originated; of all such places, the Justice Department prosecutors opened their case in Harrisburg, a conservative city with virtually no student population, inhabited mostly by Lutherans who are said to be fiercely...