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...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
...describe their erring members. Elite units like the narcotics squad were reputed to be filled with men who were pushing drugs instead of trying to stop their spread. It had become frequent practice for a patrolman to turn in part of the narcotics he had picked up in a raid and keep the other part to be sold. In one instance a patrolman arrested a pusher on the street, while a detective seized the opportunity to burglarize the pusher's home. In another case two cops supplied heroin to an addict until her horrified boy friend went...
...Twiggy. All of which has made Russell, at 43, the most provocative director in the business. Last week the Venice Film Festival canceled a public showing of The Devils in order to head off a threatened police raid, and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, denounced Russell-a Roman Catholic convert-for his "perverted marriage of sex, violence and blasphemy." Says Russell: "They miss the point totally. The Devils is about the way church and state worked together to condemn an innocent man. These things actually happened. The critics don't like to recognize this, and they...
Painstaking Precautions. The Camden raid was carried off with such devastating precision that one defense attorney termed it "not an arrest, but an ambush." Coupled with the arrest of five alleged conspirators in Buffalo, N.Y., it may have broken the spine of the Berrigan-centered segment of the antiwar movement. The Berrigan brothers themselves are in federal prisons awaiting an October trial in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of conspiring to blow up federal buildings and kidnap Henry Kissinger...
...heir apparent, Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, had conspired to obstruct justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of seven surviving Panthers accused of attempted murder. Indicted on the same charges were Hanrahan's assistant, who planned the raid, the eight policemen who entered the Panther pad and four other cops who subsequently became involved in the investigation. Police Superintendent James Conlisk was named as a coconspirator, but was not indicted...