Word: raid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career as a political activist seemed to be phasing out. But far from living in semiretirement in his Greenwich Village loft, the former defendant in the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial has apparently been developing a sideline. Along with three friends, Abbie, 36, was picked up in a narcotics raid on a midtown Manhattan hotel for allegedly selling three pounds of cocaine to two undercover policemen for $36,000. "They were the most nice people you ever met in your life," said one of the narcs, who wears a beard and long hair. "They loved us, as a matter of fact...
Here are two of the nation's more stylish and intelligent white writers bringing back the Black Panthers for postmortems. Michael Arlen examines the 1969 raid in which 14 heavily armed Chicago plainclothesmen broke into a Panther headquarters and killed Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Murray Kempton recapitulates the trial of the 21 Panthers who allegedly conspired to murder policemen and blow up New York department stores. In each case, the author's sympathies are pointedly with the Panthers...
...Howard Hunt shows little reticence nowadays in talking about those whom he considers responsible for the Watergate raid. "I guess it's obvious now," says Hunt, "that the Watergate thing was planned by a small group of people-Mitchell, Magruder, maybe a few others. We were just legmen in that operation following decisions made by others, and yet we're the only ones who have suffered from...
...government decided to use the police. Its timing was perfect. At least half of France was away on its relentless August holiday. Even so, 5,000 people demonstrated outside the Lip plant after the raid, and 20 were injured. Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand and others were determined to make political capital out of L'Affaire Lip, even if they had to await la rentrée, Frenchmen's mass return from vacation. On any brand of watch, it was a tense time in France...
...terrorists in forcing down an Arab-owned jet last week, the principle behind the act already has been legally established -at least to Israel's satisfaction. No one knows that better than Faik Bulut, a 23-year-old Turk. Last February Bulut was captured during an Israeli raid on an Al-Fatah camp in northern Lebanon, 100 miles from the Israeli border. He was brought to Israel where he was indicted as a civilian for endangering the security of the nation. Last week Bulut was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...