Word: kidnaping
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...Senate voice vote, a bill making it a federal crime punishable by death to kill a President, President-elect, Vice President, and in the absence of a Vice President, the person next in line to succeed the President. The bill also makes it a federal crime to kidnap, assault and conspire to murder, abduct or injure any of these officials. The Warren Commission urged such legislation in its report on the assassination of President Kennedy. If Lee Harvey Oswald had lived, he could only have been tried under state law in Texas. The House has passed a similar bill...
Among the recommendations made by the Warren Commission after its investigation of President Kennedy's assassination was that Congress should pass a law making it a federal-as opposed to a state or local-crime to kill, kidnap or assault a President, Vice President, President-elect or Vice President-elect. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would do just that, and more. In the case of assassination, the House measure would impose the death penalty...
Infiltration Training. The most sensational section deals with a Special Forces raid deep into North Viet Nam to destroy bridges and to kidnap or assassinate Communist leaders. The Pentagon insists that the SF has never gone into North Viet Nam. Moore explains that he "projected" the episode after being forced down in a shot-up plane at a top-secret base where SF units were training in what he took to be infiltration techniques. Moore also said that he visited a warehouse in Saigon where the SF collected foreign-made weapons for use by infiltrators, so that the equipment could...
Possibilities of Trouble. Probably several will. There may soon come a time when hostile or pirate satellites will creep close to legitimate ones and try to kidnap their listeners. Jamming of programs may be tried, just as the Soviets now jam Voice of America broadcasts Another trick that has been suggested is to learn the frequency and code of a satellite's station-keeping system and send it commands that will make it shove itself out of orbit...
Last week President Johnson set out to correct the anomaly. He sent to Congress a bill that would make it a federal crime to kill, kidnap or assault the President, the Vice President or, if there is no Vice President, whoever stands next in the line of presidential succession. Also included would be the President-elect and Vice President-elect between their election and inauguration. The bill calls for the death sentence or life in prison for murder or kidnaping and up to 15 years in prison for assault...