Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THE MOST difficult thing to determine in the whole affair is exactly what was at stake, what the precise issue was. Though certain defendants and observers felt that the issue was the destruction of the American court system, the American court system is not destroyed by four minor trials.
What was really at stake in this political game was how four people would spend the next two or three years of their lives. If they spent the time in prison, one side won. If they spent it free and acquitted, the other side won.
Two extremse tell the story. In the case of James M. Whitney, the defense fought a long, hard, vocal and impassioned case. It took two days to be resolvesd. This was partially because it was a double trial with Sobel as ?? spectators in?? in twenty minutes. He ?? suspended sentence, and...
Radical movements in this nation, though, have a tendency to assume that they are the equals of the existing powers, and they often overplay themselves. Where did the seven days of rage in Chicago get the movement? Where did the Wisconsin and New York bombings get it?
Last May, at the Panther Mayday demonstrations, everybody went to New Haven expecting the worst. Paratroop divisions were airlifted in from North Carolina, Yale organized a corps of medics incredibly well equipped. Papers that weekend printed sections on first aid and self defense.