Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroit police are at an impasse. Until November of last year, they did little more than harass heroin dealers. Standard procedure for closing down a dope house then was called a "tip over": acting on tips, the police would raid a house without a warrant, demanding entry in hopes of scaring the pusher into flushing the dope down the toilet or tossing it out the window. Many arrests resulted-9,143 in 1970-but only 1,500 ever reached trial...
...success of the projects has also converted some reluctant Berets. One was Lieut. Colonel Bill Robinson, a tough man who was operations officer for the Son Tay prison-camp raid into North Viet Nam. He admits that he was dead set against turning his troopers into community helpers, but has come round to see that "with this civic action thing, we're just using our talents in a different...
...freshmen ran out of their dorms in the Yard and followed the crowd up to Lesley for a panty raid. It was a big deal, for it was hard to see women unclad at night then; freshmen could only "entertain members of the opposite sex" for three hours a day during mid-afternoon...
...Cambodia, and the United States has been committed to a defense of Lon Nol as well as Thieu-Ky. And the invasion was a jumping-off point for other aggressive actions by which the United States has simultaneously attempted to demonstrate its strength and unpredictability: a brutal bombing raid on North Vietnam last November and the ground invasion of Laos by the South Vietnamese last February...
...numerology of protest, they were the New York 13: members of the Black Panther Party charged with conspiring to bomb police stations, department stores and railroad tracks, and to assassinate policemen. In the two years since a predawn police raid set off the long chain of legal maneuvering, numbers spiraled around them. The defendants, eleven men and two women, were charged with 30 offenses that could have brought each of them a total of 309 years in jail. Bail was set prohibitively high at $50,000 to $100,000-and 43 judges refused to reduce it. The trial lasted eight...