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...general manager A1 Ward is maintaining a tight lid on any news concerning candidates for the coaching job. The Jets' news blanket was earlier reported to stem from the fact that they had their eye on a member of the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff and did not want to raid the Cowboys' ranks on the eve of the Super Bowl...
...phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil rights, but to a need for more care, at a time of high racial tension, to avoid situations "in which extremists of either race are given opportunities for martyrdom" ?such as the 1969 Chicago police raid on the Black Panthers...
Harvard Police, led by Commander Gorski, burn Claverly Hall to the ground in a pre-dawn raid. Later, addressing the University via closed-circuit TV from his Grays Hall bunker, Gorski say, "It was riddled with crime. We had to destroy it in order to save...
...looked like Carlos-or did he? He talked like Carlos-or did he? He said he was Carlos-and then that he was not. At the end of the OPEC affair, one major question remained: Was the man who led the raid on the oil cartel's headquarters the terrorist known variously as Carlos and "the Jackal"? French intelligence was convinced that the leader of the attack was another person and that Carlos had been killed earlier by other terrorists. Israeli agents speculated that there might be not one but four Carloses...
...raid leader was indeed the Carlos, however, his name is Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez. He is 26, the son of a Venezuelan Communist intellectual who gave each of three sons one of Lenin's names: Vladimir, Ilyich and Lenin. Carlos was recruited by the KGB in his homeland and sent to Moscow's Lumumba University for training sometime in the late '60s. He also attended four special institutes run by the Soviet secret police near Moscow, where he took courses in political indoctrination, sabotage, the use of weapons and killer karate...