Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prosecutors are expected to argue that Patty willingly took part in the bank job, a contention she herself supported in a taped message after the raid. Bailey has already said that he will try to prove that Patty was under duress. But his opponent remains confident. "Sure there's pressure in this case," says Browning. "But U.S. Attorneys can't really make it or break it on any one case, unless they really screw it up. And that's not going to happen...
...North Viet Nam. During the journey through the South, their small convoy passed a group of children who shouted excitedly: "The Americans are back! The Americans are back!" Inside North Viet Nam, the missionaries were interned at Son Tay Camp, near Hanoi, which was the target of an abortive raid to release U.S. military prisoners in 1970 (they had been moved elsewhere just before the raid...
...solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence on the crater-ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic dogs, equal in intelligence to humans. Below the surface, in cavernous air-raid shelters, are the remains of Middle America, existing in ante-bellum middle class splendor. Ellison's novella, and the film, focus on the adventures of a young solo named Vic and his telepathic dog in this topsy-turvy world...
...from a shotgun, fired by one of the raiders, killed a customer, Myrna Lee Opsahl. If Patty was a member of the gang that hit that bank, she could be charged with murder. And agents are already convinced that she took part at least in the preparations for the raid...
...that Patty was forced to take part in the robbery by her companions. One problem he will have to explain away is the taped message from Patty, delivered to the police nine days after the robbery, in which she calmly declared that she will ingly took part in the raid...