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...Cambodia, and the United States has been committed to a defense of Lon Nol as well as Thieu-Ky. And the invasion was a jumping-off point for other aggressive actions by which the United States has simultaneously attempted to demonstrate its strength and unpredictability: a brutal bombing raid on North Vietnam last November and the ground invasion of Laos by the South Vietnamese last February...
...numerology of protest, they were the New York 13: members of the Black Panther Party charged with conspiring to bomb police stations, department stores and railroad tracks, and to assassinate policemen. In the two years since a predawn police raid set off the long chain of legal maneuvering, numbers spiraled around them. The defendants, eleven men and two women, were charged with 30 offenses that could have brought each of them a total of 309 years in jail. Bail was set prohibitively high at $50,000 to $100,000-and 43 judges refused to reduce it. The trial lasted eight...
...revoked the campers' permit, disconnected the all-important loudspeaker and sent the kids scattering. Many simply left town; others spent the time that was to have been used laying out Mayday's grand strategy roaming the streets in search of a place to sleep. The pre-emptive raid, a tactical stroke that evoked even Davis' grudging admiration, may have been a significant reason why the next morning's eruptions did not end in massive violence and possibly serious bloodshed...
...most troublesome question, of course, is what role the Russian servicemen in Egypt would play. Most observers figure that Russian advisers and technicians would pull back to avoid incidents if Egypt decided to mount any kind of cross-canal raid. Less certain, however, is the status of the Russian pilots who are flying the most advanced jets that Moscow has shipped to Egypt. If the Israelis began sending their planes over the Egyptian interior, the Soviet pilots would almost certainly challenge them. But what if the Israelis avoided "deep penetration" raids, yet were giving the Egyptians such a beating that...
...next day, the Daily published an editorial calling the raid a "fishing expedition" and charging that it was designed to have a "chilling effect on the media to exercise the rights guaranteed to them by the First Amendment." Stanford President Richard Lyman called the raid "deplorable and threatening to the full freedom of the press...