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...reaction to hearing strange noises in the night has often been to reach for a gun. Every year since John F. Kennedy's assassination with a mailorder rifle, gun-control proponents have trooped to Congress to tick off the toll of an overarmed people overreacting. In a Washington suburb last week, the death of a junior high student delivering newspapers brought the statistics to life. A single blast from a shotgun pointed at the predawn shadows killed 13-year-old Todd McKinney. The college student who shot him thought Todd's footsteps might belong to a prowler making...
Tipped off by an anonymous caller, police were directed to a message from the terrorists declaring: "In the face of the arrogance of the federal government, we have decided to move into action." With the message was a map that led authorities to a parked taxicab in the Montreal suburb of St. Hubert. In the cab's trunk was the blood-covered body of Pierre Laporte, 49, Quebec's Labor Minister. He had been shot in the head. Still missing was James Cross, 49, British Trade Commissioner in Montreal. It was Cross who was first kidnaped two weeks...
Died. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale (born Konan T. Molody), 48, convicted Soviet spy, whom the British exchanged for Businessman Greville Wynne in 1964; of an apparent heart attack in a Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s...
Police discovered a bungalow hideout in a Montreal suburb yesterday where they believe the FLQ held Laporte before killing him. But the discovery of the alleged hideout yielded no new information concerning the three FLQ members now being sought in connection with the kidnappings or any others in the radical terrorist group...
Guerrilla War. Money has usually been plentiful in Scarsdale, a well-manicured New York City suburb. Once known as the nation's wealthiest town, Scarsdale has also claimed the best public-school system in America. It had never voted down a school budget until this year. The stock market plunge may have been a factor, but there were several others. Last year Scarsdale's commuters were jolted by a New York Times story titled "Guerrilla War Tactics Taught at Scarsdale High." The story solemnly described one high school teacher's course about guerrilla warfare, which included demonstration...