Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...documents-which are being distributed to newspapers all over the country-represent further results of a raid carried out by an undercover group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate...
...first packet of documents released after the Media, Pa., raid included a memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover which urged "immediate" and "discreet" investigations of black student groups, terming them "a definite threat to the nation's stability and security...
...movement, which only really got off the ground last August, turned out to be short-lived. On Dec. 19, six MAR members allegedly assaulted a bank messenger and snatched a strongbox containing $84,000 in U.S. currency. The raid put the police on their tracks. The break in the case finally came when a MAR member named Francisco Parades Ruiz was arrested on a vagrancy charge March 1 and police found a phony passport on him. Under interrogation, Parades Ruiz reportedly informed on the others in exchange for immunity. With his information, police soon arrested 19 more MAR members...
...editorial published Tuesday, the Daily called the raid a "fishing expedition." "The use of searches, subpoenas, and all other forms of governmental harassment obviously have a chilling effect on the freedom of the media to exercise the rights guaranteed them by the First Amendment," the editorial said...
Stanford President Richard W. Lyman called the raid "deplorable and threatening to full freedom of the press." The Stanford administration is helping the Daily gather contributions to defray the cost of its suit, Barringer said...