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...demolition experts continued to probe the 11th Street wreckage for more explosives-and perhaps more bodies-bombs exploded at the Manhattan headquarters of Mobil Oil, IBM and General Telephone and Electronics. An organization that styled itself "Revolutionary Force 9" claimed responsibility. No one was hurt in the early-morning blasts, which were strikingly similar to three blasts in several New York office buildings last Nov. 11, but during the following two days news of the explosions triggered an outbreak of more than 600 phony bomb scares in a jittery New York. Three Molotov cocktails exploded in a Manhattan high school...
...Plummer and Carson can only theorize about their strange Martian snow. But they hope that its presence may be confirmed in 1975 when NASA's Project Viking space probe is scheduled to make the first unmanned landing on the red planet, analyze its surroundings and radio its findings back to earth...
...Kahn's book promises to be different. The subtitle Why Students Rebel suggests a probe into the underlying causes of student unrest. A book which faces this problem using the events at Columbia as evidence might well become an important commentary on campus violence. Gene McCarthy, in the book's introduction, clearly believes that Kahn has achieved his goal...
McCarthy, who is responsible for the current probe into American handling of CBW, dealt specifically with gases and defoliants used in Vietnam in his talk. He gave evidence to show that herbicides, 245T in particular, have disastrous effects on childbirth...
Appeals may well soften those sentences and probe potentially reversible errors by Hoffman. But the outcome may be confusing. Although the Chicago Seven were acquitted of conspiracy -thanks to the jury that most of them disdained-the courtroom warfare may make it unnecessary for an appeals court to rule on the constitutionality of the antiriot law on First Amendment grounds. Whatever the result, the Chicago trial underscores an old lesson: courts are poor places for resolving ideological conflicts. In a strong democracy, such cases should not be inevitable in times of social stress. When they do occur, the judicial process...