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...bases, it is still reluctant to say that these isolated acts add up to a trend. From all appearances, Juhala was acting alone in Michigan, taking private revenge for fancied governmental insults. The motive in the case of the other acts of sabotage remains a mystery. A Weatherman type group called Citizens Committee to Interdict War Materials (CCIWM, pronounced Swim) claims responsibility for the damage and has been duly infiltrated by volunteers working for the feds. But it has not yet written to the President to explain itself...
...refused to allow women as special agents. Tracking down Dillingers and other enemies foreign and domestic was man's work, he believed. He continued the ban even in recent years when the FBI's Most Wanted List came to include women, among them Angela Davis and the Weatherman's Bernardine Dohrn...
...last funny line in a movie that still has a long time to run. Fritz harangues the crows and implausibly starts a street riot; he goes on the lam again, cross-country, and becomes involved with a vaguely realized bunch of bikers and Mansonites with Weatherman reflexes who take him to blow up a power station-in the course of which Fritz is blown up himself...
...Children attack all worldly society with the fierce zeal of the Weatherman, using the cherished King James Bible as their proof text. They demand a strictly communal life as practiced by the early Christians according to the Book of Acts ("they held everything in common"). They avoid work except as it relates to their own communes, lest their members be forced to choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic...
Apparently placed in the boxes last July, the bombs were all equipped with a seven-month fuse-a device sophisticated enough to persuade the police that some radicals have upgraded their skills; they suspect that the bombs were the work of the Weatherman...