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...Sunday, U. S. helicopter gunships dropped South Vietnamese paratroops into Cambodia in a raid intended to free U. S. prisoners. When they arrived near Mimot, a town 75 miles northwest of Saigon, they found the suspected prisoner of war camp empty. Instead, the party captured 30 North Vietnamese soldiers who were in the area...
...special offer to Kissinger seemed to represent a new departure in interpretation of the long-standing University rule limiting leaves of absence to two years. The last major application of the rule came after President Kennedy's raid on the Faculty for staff members of his administration...
...black ghettos, Jackson was so intrigued by his first sight of a white skin that he walked up and touched it. His curiosity earned him a swift blow on the head with a baseball bat. Since that time, Jackson, whose brother Jonathan was cut down while leading a raid on the Marin County courthouse last August, has battled white society. For eleven years, Jackson, 29, has served time in California prisons for the $70 robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time in solitary confinement. Though eligible for parole after his first six months, he has been...
...grief over the fate of the Leningrad eleven, and by fear of far wider repercussions for all Soviet Jewry. Tens of thousands came to weep at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall, and, at 10:30 a.m. one day last week, the nation stood in silent prayer as air-raid sirens sounded for two electrifying minutes. On Israeli radio. Premier Golda Meir, in a low, emotion-choked voice, charged that "the present Russian regime is continuing in the tradition of murdering innocent Jews that was common in Czarist Russia...
...Commando Raid. Once the special agreement between France and Germany is signed, the regional Central Office for the Prosecution of Nazi Mass Crimes will resume investigations. It could order Lammerding's arrest-if it feels it has sufficient evidence. Foreseeing that possibility, Lammerding recently turned his business affairs over to his son and moved to the West German village of Greiling, just across the border from Austria. If Germany does not arrest him, some Frenchmen have already threatened to settle the matter in their own way. Last month, when more than 5,000 mourners demonstrated in Tulle to demand...