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Puerto Rico and the US./1A Lnt'l Abortion Tribunal Receives Support of Prominent Figures/9 in Brief ANTIWAR ACTIVIST WINS CASE on U.S JANUARY 12. 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 1 ·· A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Inauguration D~y_P-rotests set Demonstrate Jan.20-­ demand U.S. Out Now!· -page 4 \ Hanoi scene of destruction caused by US. bombers. Nixon's B-52s attacked population centers of North Vietnam with indiscriminate 'carpet bombing.' See page 3. Puerto Rico and the US./1a lnt'l Abortion Tribunal receives support of prominent figures/9 In Brief ANTIWAR ACTIVIST WINS CASE ON U.S. AID: motivation in the firings were "very unfair considering A three-judge federal panel in Chicago recently ruled in­ the nature of our department. It's hard to find anyone valid a law barring federal scholarship funds to students whom you would consider a reactionary; it doesn't have convicted of "serious" crimes that "contributed to a sub­ anyone on either end. I don't know whether that's good THIS stantial disruption of the administration" of their school. or bad." The law was passed by Congress in the wake of the Duesenberry may not know how good it is, but WEEK'S student protests of the 1960s. Under it Jeanne Rasche apparently he intends to keep it that way. Deloff, a student at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus, was deprived of a National Defense Edu­ MILITANT WARDEN AND 10 OTHERS ACCUSED OF BRUTAL­ 3 lnt'l outcry hits Nixon cation Act loan and forced to drop out of school. She ITY: Prisoners at the Queens House of Detention in New had been convicted of criminal trespass as a result of a York City have won an important victory. As a result bombing demonstration in May 1970 protesting the invasion of of a civil suit they filed in November 1970, a special 5 Scientists, church Cambodia and the murders at Kent State. prosecutor charged on Jan. 2 that "there is sufficient leaders, protest bombing The court, in a 2-to-1 decision, held that the law was available legal evidence against five correction officers, 9 Is adoption substitute for unconstitutional because the statute's definition of a four captains, an assistant deputy warden, and a warden abortion right? "serious" crime was vague and "overbroad." to warrant various charges against each of them for 10 What's wrong with violation of department rules forbidding the use of un­ 'Sign Now'? necessary force against inmates, prohibiting the purposeful harassment and demeaning of inmates." 11 Returns. show unfair Victory in Starsky case The charges stem from a rebellion in the prison in handling of SWP vote LOS ANGELES-A federal judge has ordered Arizona State University to reinstate Dr. Morris Starsky, a October 1970. Although no criminal charges are expected 14 Auto industry produc­ socialist and antiwar activist dismissed from the ASU to be lodged (departmental trials will be held), this is tivity dl'ive philosophy department in 1970. a far cry from the original disposition of the case. In 15 N.Y. pickets protest anti­ Starsky had been denied renewal of his contract on July 1971 U.S. Magistrate Vincent Catoggio had said Semitism slander grounds of alleged professional misconduct and infrac­ that the prisoners' charges constituted "a gigantic hoax tion of rules. and fraud." 16 I am Joaquin This finding was rejected by Judge Orrin Judd, who 17 los Tres del Barrio In a 64-page ruling handed down Dec. 26, U.S. Judge Carl Muecke declared: ordered the appointment of the special prosecutor. Al­ appeal for new trial . "Looking at the evidence as a whole insofar as it though the prosecutor claimed that only a small part of the total prison staff had mistreated the prisoners, 19 Social democrats hold reflects the sum substance of six years as a member he admitted that most guards refused to cooperate with nat'l convention of the faculty, an acknowledged and respected teacher his investigation. 21 left opposition: cam­ and scholar, and a man with national visibility; and paign against after carefully studying all the evidence ... this Court 'Trotskyism' must conclude that the primary reason for the discipline YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH LOGIC: The number of of Professor Starsky is grounded in his exercise of his complaints private citizens filed against New York City 24 Black sailor convicted First Amendment rights in expressing unpopular views." policemen during 1972 reached a record 3, 700, triple in Kitty Hawk case In ordering Starsky reinstated, the judge said he the figure of five years ago. Most of the complaints charge will now weigh Starsky's claim for damages to com­ police with using unnecessary force, with abusing their pensate for his illegal dismissal. University officials authority, or with making ethnic slurs. 6 In Our Opinion have not yet stated whether they will seek to appeal the The increase irt the number of complaints, says the decision. executive director of the police department's Civilian Com­ Letters plaint Review Board, reflects the public's confidence in the 7 National Picket Line A full report on this important victory for civil liber­ ties and academic freedom will be carried in a future board's impartiality. Women in Revolt issue of The Militant. Those of you who would have thought that the figures 8 Great Society reflect a rise in police brutality, or in people's willingness By Any Means Neces­ to report such brutality, can relax. The proportion of cases in which the board has recommended departmental sary charges against the cops involved was down to 2.5 per­ American Way of Life cent, a new low. 20 In Review LAW PROFS DENOUNCE WITCH-HUNTING COM­ MITTEE: The abolition of the House Committee on In­ WORLD. OUTLOOK ternal Security was demanded by 365 professors from 94 law schools on Dec. 28. The professors, including 1 Soviet dissident ques­ the deans of 13 law schools, signed a petition to the tions report of Yaki r Ninety-third Congress charging that "the operations of betrayal any committee of this nature run counter to the basic 2 Argentina: Develop­ principles of American democracy." ment of a revolutionary They maintained that the principle function of the com­ socialist movement mittee "has been to probe and expose the beliefs, opinions, and as so cia tions of American citizens," and that "the 3 World News Notes very design of the committee, and the inevitable manner 4 Soviet Germans Morris Starsky Militant/Walter Lippmann of its functioning, bring it directly into conflict with the demand republic constihitional guarantee of free and open discussion."' THE CASE OF FRED QUILT: On an isolated, snow­ covered gravel road in British Columbia in November City-wide forum in N.Y. 1971, a 25-year-old constable in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stomped and kicked a 55-year-old Chil­ "WHERE DOES THE VIETNAM WAR STAND? How cotin Indian, severing his small intestine. After suffering to End It: Sign Now or Out Now?" A talk by Barry the agony of his internal injury for two days, Fred Quilt Sheppard, national organizational secretary of the died. Socialist Wor~ers Party. Friday, Jan. 12, 8 p.m., One inquest called Quilt's death an accident. A second at New York University, Room 121 Meyer Building refused to attribute blame for Quilt's death to Daryl Bake­ {corner of Broadway and Washington Place}. Do­ THE MILITANT well, the Mountie who stomped him. VOLUME 37/NUMBER 1 The story of the entire case is told in a thorough piece nation: $7. Sponsored by West Side Militant Forum, JANUARY 12, 1973 of investigative reporting by Tim Cahill in the current Lower Manhattan Militant Labor Forum, and Brook­ CLOSING NEWS DATE-JAN. 3, 1973 (Jan. 4) issue of Rolling Stone magazine: "Death on lyn Militant Forum. See "What's Wrong with 'Sign Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Chilcotin Road." Now'?-An answer to the Guardian on Vietnam," Managing Editor: DOUG JENNESS page 10. Busin~ss Monag~r: SHARON CABANISS Southw~st Bureau: HARRY RING Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., ACADEMIC FREEDOM AT HARVARD: On the heels 14 Charles Lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed­ of the victory of Dr. Morris Starsky reported above, 'THE ROLE OF THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS': That itorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) another case of political victimization of radical professors 929-3486. was the topic discussed by four panelists at the Militant has come to light, this one at Harvard University. The Labor Forum in Los Angeles on Dec. 15. More 'than Southwest Bureau: 11071/2 N. Western Ave., Los economics department there has fired Arthur MacEwan Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463-1917. 100 people came to hear Harry Ring of the Southwest and Samuel Bowles, both of whom consider themselves Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Sub­ Bureau of The Militant; Art Kunkin, editor of the Los scription: Domestic, $5 a year; foreign, $8. By first­ Marxists. Professor Stephen Marglin, also of Harvard, class mail: domestic and Canada, $25; all other coun­ Angeles Free Press; Michael Letwin, staff member of the charged that "a clear pattern of selectivity with politics Red Tide, a newspaper produced by high school students; tries, $41. Air print_ed matter: domestic and Canada, involved, has been at play." S32; latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, Australia, and Patty Lee Parmalee, from the Southern California Professor James Duesenberry, chairman of Harvard's Asia (including USSR), $50. Write for sealed air postage Bureau of the Guardian. In addition to discussing the rates. economics department, defended the action in an inter­ alternative press in general, the panelists explained the Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily view with Richard Weintraub in the Jan.
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