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Obviously the restlessness would not be satisfied by anything so illusory as a Cabinet shift. A few days before his speech, Sadat had pushed aside such eminent old guardsmen as Premier Mahmoud Fawzi, 71, who took the honorific post of vice president, and Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, 55, who was named a foreign affairs adviser. The incoming Cabinet is composed of bright young technocrats with few ties back to Nasser and little political strength of their own. "Some are pro-this and some are pro-that," said an Israeli scrutinizing the list of new appointees. "The only thing that makes...
Jumping into his chauffeur-driven BMW, he set off for the airport, frequently hitting 110 m.p.h. on the straightaways. Over his car radio, Figueres dictated his detailed instructions for "terrorizing the terrorists," who were members of the Nicaraguan National Liberation Front. Two hundred armed civilian guardsmen should surround the plane. The runway should be blocked, the plane's tires deflated. Don Pepe repeatedly shouted into the radio, "Boys, this...
...professor indicted a year ago for rioting, arson and other crimes supposedly committed just before the campus shootings of May 4, 1970. On that day, four students were killed and ten wounded by National Guard gunfire. The same grand jury that handed down the indictments exonerated the National Guardsmen of any blame for the deaths. Last week a trial jury of eight men and four women visited the campus to examine the site of the slayings. TIME Correspondent William Friedman also looked in on the haunted campus to measure its mood a year and a half after the killings...
...District Judge William K. Thomas found the jury's report so blatantly biased that he ordered those conclusions exonerating the Guardsmen and condemning the university officials expunged from the record. Finally the court ordered the entire document destroyed. Still, the indictments are not legally bound to the jury's report. So the irony is that even though the report has been invalidated, the trials are to begin this week because the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stay them...
...There is a second system of justice for the poor, for members of racial minorities, for the young people of this country, and a third one for those who act against the people subject to the second for the police in Chicago, for the national guardsmen in Ohio for the highway patrol in Jackson State," he continued...