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...Police took a full-page ad in the local papers. Next to a large police badge pierced by a bullet, the copy said: "In our minds there is one whale of a difference between being injured or killed while enforcing the law and the rapidly emerging pattern of cop killing and guerrilla warfare." A mailing coupon at the bottom read: "I agree that something must be done about the senseless attacks upon policemen right now. I am in full support of the Cleveland policemen." The response has been enormous: something like 65,000 coupons have come in from all over...
...terror has been relatively limited; as far as is known, no group has sought to plunge a city into chaos with simultaneous attacks, for example, on its power stations, water supply and main roads. But the degree of terror has increased notably with the cop-killing campaign in the U.S. and the murder of hostages in Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and Guatemala. Thus the urban guerrillas have revived the system of diplomatic ransom that flourished from the Dark Ages until the Renaissance, when kings and princes routinely used ambassadors as hostages. As Brandeis Sociologist Richard Sennett puts it: "The terrorism...
...strategy, then. "Will you take two pictures of him?" they begged. "Please, please! " They turned to the two riot cops who had just arrived and offered one of them a dollar to go take two pictures of Bobby. The price rose to two dollars. But that was all, and the cop wasn't interested. Police payoffs are fine, but at two dollars, why take the chance...
Back inside the auditorium itself, a few girls were hanging around trying to figure out what to do while a few patient cops tried to talk them into going home. One was asked by a teenies where Bobby was staying. The cop responded that he was at the Sheraton-with 22 policemen. What was a girl to do? One particularly young one gave the cop a napkin and asked him to wipe it on part of the stage where Bobby had walked. He did and returned it to the grateful girl. I wondered how many die-hard fans of this...
...REVOLUTION is finally legitimate. The FBI's Ten-Most-Wanted List now includes eight student radicals: Bernadine Dohrn of the Weathermen; Susan Saxe and Kathy Power, and Brandeis women charged in the Boston bank robbery-cop killing; Cameron Bishop, a student wanted for blowing up a defense power plant in Colorado; and the four men alleged to have blown up the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Dwight and Carl Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt. All "should be considered armed and dangerous...