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...blacks accused of killing a guard in a Soledad, Calif., prison, whose case has been made a cause Célè by the black militant community. The youthful Jackson had more than an ideological interest in the Soledad Three: one of them was his brother. In his raid on the Marin County trial, Jackson demanded the release of the Three...
Whether Jackson acted on his own and stole Angela Davis' guns for his raid without her knowledge, or whether she participated in the plot remains a mystery. To the discomfort of her U.C.L.A. partisans, who are fighting her ouster in court and raising money to continue her salary in the meantime, Miss Davis last week vanished. The Marin County authorities have sufficient cause for suspicion that there have been warrants issued for Miss Davis on charges of kidnaping and murder...
...August evening in Tokyo, just after nightfall, in the summer of 1945. Workers scurry home through darkened streets still littered with the charred rubble of the spring fire-bomb raids. The Cabinet sits late, pondering the accumulating evidence of Japan's almost certain defeat; but the diehards, led by War Minister Korechika Anami, want to fight to the last breath. Suddenly, air-raid sirens wail. In the sky, just short of the city, two Superfortresses wheel, and a single huge projectile drops through the dark toward the bay. A mile above the water, it detonates...
...miles from Tokyo, far from the eyes of those who made national war policy. On the day Fat Man exploded, the Supreme Council was just getting the first fully detailed reports of damage at Hiroshima. Teller's pyrotechnical display over nighttime Tokyo, or a purely military raid on a nearby installation, might have made as much impression on the decision makers at little or no cost to civilian life...
...parents can go see these movies and have the satisfaction of remarking "Oh, look! It's their version of the panty raid!" Suddenly, radicals are clean, attractive (long hair for men is now as chic in Hollywood as in Cambridge), and loveable kids who are merely frustrated by puritanical school mating policies, by strict drug laws, by the draft and the war it serves...