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WASHINGTON-The government tightened security at federal buildings and offices throughout the nation yesterday after a series of terrorist bombings...
...Santa Barbara police chief A. W. Trembly told reporters, "We certainly believe the bombings are connected with the Weathermen and other terrorist groups in our nation today...
...particular with those who are exiled, imprisoned, or tortured because of this involvement." Among the prisoners singled out: Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, who for the past ten years has been either in prison or in exile in Angola, seven Brazilian Dominicans accused of being members of a terrorist group, and the Berrigan brothers, now in prison for destroying U.S. Government draft files. The resolution also referred to "many others whose names cannot be publicly mentioned"-a reference presumably including some imprisoned in Communist countries...
...issue of Feb. 28, 1969, TIME'S Essay observed that the growing incidence of terrorist attacks on airliners, ships, and individuals and institutions of all kinds suggested nothing so much as the Dark Ages, "when the only safe haven was the castle, with its great moat, drawbridge and armed men glaring from the turrets." That age of world disorder never seemed closer than last week during the Middle East hijackings, when a small band of fanatics terrorized hundreds of people, blew up four planes and held the world at bay. ∙ For its cover story on the incredible week...
...college and university administrators await the return of most students this week, their apprehension turns less on the almost certain resumption of protest than on the possibility of terrorist violence. The worst such incident to date, last month's bombing of the mathematics research center at the University of Wisconsin, left a badly demoralized campus amid the rubble. To assess the implications of that bitter event for academic institutions elsewhere, TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski visited the university and sent this report...