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...Sadat and his advisers were to meet early in the week to decide whether or not to extend the truce formally, and if so, for how long. Meanwhile, Sadat's soldiers have been training with rubber dinghies along the canal, in clear sight of the Israelis, and air raid drills were staged in Cairo. The Israelis also went out of their way to show that they are prepared for any eventuality. "Don't fear and don't panic if the Egyptians start the fighting again," Premier Golda Meir told the nation. "We are ready for them...
...same theory has it that the Government's source of information on the kidnap-bomb plot was a group of non-religious in the circle who became alarmed once discussion turned seriously to use of tougher tactics than those employed in the raid that the Berrigans had led against the draft board at Catonsville, Md. The principal informer was not an infiltrator but an active member of the conspiracy, although not one of those named in last week's indictment. The details of the Kissinger plot were spelled out, astonishingly, in letters and hand-carried messages exchanged among the principal...
...society began to dominate the thought of both Berrigans, a view of society as a kind of Catch-22 nightmare. Daniel had already undergone yet another radicalization while awaiting trial. On a trip to Hanoi to bring back three U.S. prisoners, he had been caught in an air raid and found himself hurtling into a shelter with a Vietnamese baby in his arms. The experience became both a scar and a poem: "In my arms, Father, in a moment's grace The Messiah of all my tears I bore, reborn, a Hiroshima child from hell...
...raid was the latest in a succession of U. S. moves toward escalation. The U. S. has "started flying AH1 Cobra gunships, F-4 Phantoms and B-52 strategic bombers in support of South Vietnamese operations on Cambodia's Highway 4, put helicopter-carrying ships off the coast of Cambodia, and started a daily airlift of arms and ammunition to Phnom Penh," according to the Boston Globe...
Monday's meeting also showed that the problem is not limited to blacks in Cambridge. Two white teenagers from Putnam Gardens appeared before the Council and described a police raid on their Saturday night party. The police called once at the party and told the boys that they had had a complaint and the building would have to be cleared. All but five boys left. The witnesses reported that the police came back and knocked one boy unconscious and dragged him down the stairs by his hair before taking him to the station. The two officers involved in the incident...