Word: trappings
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...Harvard varsity baseball team played Brandies for the first time and lost to the Judges, 7-3. Perhaps the Crimson was just hustling the Brandies athletic administration into a trap, for Brandies is still seeking its second victory in the 17-year series...
Little Headway. Next day the Pakistan army dispatched another infantry company from Jessore to stage a counterattack on Kushtia. At Bishakali village, halfway to Kushtia, the new company fell into a booby trap set by Bangla Desh forces. Two Jeeps in the nine-vehicle army convoy plunged into a deep pit covered with bamboo and vines. Seventy-three soldiers were killed on the spot, and dozens of others were chased down and slain...
...enforcement agencies were permitted to wiretap in ordinary criminal cases, provided they first obtained a court-approved warrant. Under the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, such warrants require "probable cause"-proof that officials are probing with specific evidence of a crime, not just trying to trap possible wrongdoers. The 1968 law, though, did not limit the President's power "to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States" or "to protect the United States against the overthrow of the Government by force...
...other is by pretending that what happened was necessary and even commendable. The first view insists on the original sin of American Viet Nam policy and holds that Presidents should go to jail. Apart from having obvious legal flaws, the "we-are-all-guilty" position presents a moral trap: if everyone is guilty, no one is guilty or responsible, and the very meaning of morality disintegrates...
...fact that the protestors were stupid enough to fall into the trap does not excuse their guilt. Such atrocities must not be allowed at a free university. The administration should take all appropriate disciplinary action against those who disrupted the program. When a university lacks the courage to protect all expression of thought, it forfeits its reason for existence...