Word: raids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Risky Options. If Pyongyang decides not to cool it, however, the options open to the U.S. all involve serious risks. One is to storm Yonghung Bay and either retrieve Pueblo from Wonsan or destroy it-though a commando-style raid of the sort might involve heavy casualties. Seizing a North Korean ship or two would hardly be worth the effort inasmuch as the biggest, most attractive vessels Pyongyang has afloat are two 500-ton Russian-built mine sweepers. A blockade of Wonsan would mean cutting the Soviet submarine fleet off from one of its principal Far Eastern ports. Nabbing...
Gestapo Tactics. To Stony Brook officials, who had not been advised that the raid was planned, it looked like something of a grandstand operation. Not only was there a certain amount of melodrama in the dawn crackdown, but nearly a dozen newsmen had been briefed by the cops beforehand and had been given rides to the scene in police cars. Stony Brook Associate Dean Donald M. Bybee called it "a press field day," and a local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union quickly protested the pretrial publicity. Students complained of "Gestapo tactics," pro tested that the ill-timed raid...
Among other things, the flurry over the Stony Brook raid dramatized the fact that U.S. campuses and law-enforcement officials are not of like minds regarding pot. Most students, as well as many professors, do not believe that smoking marijuana is or should be a criminal offense. Even if they privately share their students' views, college officials acknowledge their obligation to help enforce existing laws-although Long Island police were notably angered by Stony Brook's refusal to let the agents formally enroll as students...
...work destroyed or damaged 30 trucks, 70 boats and 80 pieces of rolling stock, including three locomotives. As the week progressed, the fighter-bombers hammered away at bridges close to Hanoi and Haiphong, and hit one supply route within nine miles of the Chinese border. A raid on Haiphong drew an official protest from Moscow, which claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from the Soviet freighter Pereslavl-Zalessky, moored in the city's harbor, severely damaging the Russian ship. The U.S. State Department apologized, but it noted that it had warned that ships...
...Catholic couple. According to his own testimony, he was sexually molested by a male relative when he was eight, and in puberty displayed homosexual tendencies. All of Bartsch's victims were boys, all had been lured away from carnivals, all had been killed in an abandoned air-raid shelter. On the witnessstand, Bartsch described in detail how he had attempted anal intercourse with two of the boys, masturbated over them, then slaughtered the children as a butcher would a steer...