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...heavily armed plainclothesmen from the Cook County State's Attorney's office raided a dingy West Side Chicago apartment, looking for a cache of illegal guns. Possessing a search warrant, the officers said that they forced open a barricaded door and were greeted by a shotgun blast. They returned the fire, setting off a furious ten-minute shoot-out with the apartment's occupants...
...that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers. Everywhere on TV is Herb Klein, the Administration's director of communications, who with boyish grin and crinkly eyes, has proved a master of articulating the President's get-tough policies with a lowered voice...
...Also in Cambridge, police arrested 15 young men and nine women said to be members of the supermilitant Weatherman faction of S.D.S. Raids on three apartments netted a small arsenal: one shotgun, three rifles and nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition. All 24 were charged with conspiracy to commit murder by firing two shots through the front window of the Cambridge police station earlier this month...
Police found a variety of weapons-including one loaded shotgun, one loaded rifle with a bayonet, two other rifles, pipes, sticks, window weights and 800 rounds of ammunition-in a closet at the Franklin St. house. Police said one of the rifles was stolen...
Poisoned Darts. Anouilh's hero, Antoine de St. Flour, is dead when the curtain rises. A famed French playwright who retired from the world to a Bavarian Schloss on his 50th birthday, he has been killed in a shotgun accident that may have been a suicide. A group of characters from his past have been summoned for the reading of the will. They make up a nicely varied assortment: two ex-wives-one of them an old dreadnought of an actress superbly played by Françoise Rosay-three mistresses and three men, including a dyspeptic theater critic, jealous...