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...times it is brutally beautiful, lavishly choreographed - a pagan ritual in evening dress. The script, which has some vague relation to Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, concerns the exploits of a university student named Jonathan who is dis patched by his professor to scout a prospective raid on a vampire fortress...
...most inflammatory of the propaganda programs are those by the Palestinian guerrilla movement. After the Israeli commando raid on Beirut in April, a Voice of Palestine broadcast from Algiers called on Arabs to "kill everyone who is American because all of them work for American intelligence...
...level White House activities, and he is the only top official who has expressed willingness to stand up and accuse other insiders -including the President. In addition, he claims credit for having volunteered early cooperation with prosecutors and causing the disclosure of such key incidents as the raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist and the destruction of documents by FBI Chief L. Patrick Gray...
Their acquittal may well have resulted from Federal Judge Clarkson Fisher's instructions to the jury about the perils of entrapment by the Government. A paid FBI informer had been extremely active in the 1971 raid, supplying tools, strategy and training. Though the Supreme Court recently took a more tolerant view of government agent activity, the judge told the jury that it could acquit if it found "overreaching Government participation" that was "offensive to the basic standards of decency and shocking to the universal sense of justice." The jury deliberated over four days and finally returned not-guilty...
...discover two private detectives digging through his belongings. At his call, sheriff's deputies arrested the pair, and they languished in jail for days before disclosing that they were working for a Miami detective agency. Three years later, some embarrassed CIA officials admitted that they had staged the raid as a favor to their gangland spook Giancana...