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Lights On. Meanwhile, Sadat showed up at the Suez front and told his troops to be prepared to "fight at any minute." Egypt would not be frightened, he said in a speech, "even if the U.S. gives every Israeli a tank." Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa scheduled air-raid drills for Cairo and Alexandria, but more moderate elements in Sadat's government prevailed on the President to cancel them. In addition, night lights on the Nile River bridges were turned on for the first time since January, when Israel launched the first of its deep-penetration air-raids in response...
...grant approved by the church's Executive Council was an award of $40,000 last year to the Alianza de los Pueblos Libres, a militant group of Mexican-Americans in New Mexico. The Alianza came to national attention in 1967 when its head, Reies Lopez Tijerina, led a raid on a county courthouse in which a jailer and a state policeman were shot. Recently, the Alianza has been seeking to form an independent state based on land grants allegedly guaranteed by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the contribution infuriated New Mexican Episcopalians. Bishop C.J. Kinsolving...
...Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam). The list also contained the names of many self-proclaimed radicals, among them Yippie Founder Abbie Hoffman, Pacifist David Dellinger, Black Panther National Chairman Bobby Scale and Black Panther Fred Hampton (although he was slain in a Chicago police raid in December...
...fallen, they drove their camel herds across 100-mile-wide tribal grazing grounds, venturing into town only to sell their animals. They observed stern codes for everything from vendettas to hospitality. Bigger tribes like the Beni Sakhr, when they suffered a bad winter, carried out a gazu or tribal raid, plundering weaker tribes of their camels, horses and food...
Most of the items found in his apartment belonged to Harvard students. The raid uncovered six cameras, one television, one stereo, one watch and other less valuable goods...