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...criticisms of the Administration now extend to the war, economic policy, White House organization, treatment of the press and the leadership vacuum. At one dinner, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longstanding Nixon loyalist, concluded that the Cambodia invasion should have been quietly announced in Saigon as an expanded "raid" rather than trumpeted as something like Armageddon by Nixon on national television. At another party, Labor Secretary George Shultz argued intently that the time has come to put a muzzle on Vice President Agnew...
...grand jury findings lent strong evidence to the case that it was the police -and not the Panthers-who shot first. Yet the jury was unable to return any indictments against the 14 policemen in the raid, largely because the seven surviving Panthers refused to testify before the predominantly white federal grand jury. They seemed to prefer propagandizing their martyrs. "The grand jury is forced to conclude that [the Panthers] are more interested in the issue of police persecution than they are in obtaining justice," the report said. "Perhaps revolutionary groups simply do not want the legal system to work...
...borders on one condition: that there be quiet on both sides of the borders." If it happens here, she warned in effect, it will happen there. Last week, 36 hours after her warning, Israel took steps to quiet the other side of the border. In a massive retaliatory raid, Israeli armor rolled across the Lebanese border under jet-fighter cover...
...Biggest Bag. Though the Israelis had hoped to end the raid in less than a day, the eventual withdrawal took longer. Tiger-suited fedayeen hurried out from Beirut in commandeered Mercedes-Benz cabs to join the action. Near Hebbariyeh, where fedayeen control ends, Lebanese troops also took part in the fight. Not until 34 hours after they had entered Lebanon did the last troops withdraw. Israel reported no dead and eleven wounded. Behind, they left 39 houses demolished and from 30 to 100 guerrillas killed...
...good old silent college days, the duties of the kindly campus cop were rarely more critical than controlling a panty raid, lecturing a drunken student or investigating a petty theft. That serene existence has long since passed. Today's city-size universities have spawned an increasing crime rate and a restive student body. As a result, many university administrators are recruiting a new breed of campus gendarme...