Moy 29,'1975 I 301 * TheContinutng PEACE &, FREEDOM THRUID NONVIOLENT ACTION Agong of : Ireland;

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'-: 1.! T',/:: ii,j ':ii';; i¡i¡¡ l:Ì¡\:i'1.,t .:¡ { i i.ii il ¡;-,i¡ i i ¡,1 .:. *:' ¡. ¡1,. t ¡i f ; ;. 1: ri'¡. ¡.'' r: iì :'a -'ì.;¿ people will be community continue ñne with it as,long as more Do we sit on our intellectual, lrourgeois perienced in parenting and knew damned sge the nonviolent - hap' term task of atträcted to it as a result. But the IWW well what'they were in for. with the more ðifficqlt,'long . cloutls and condeinà a methqd of resistänce oens to actually be explipitly not andrch¡st, forming a society where abortion is not chosen by anothsr people? \ryhât.alternative It's that kind of all-repudiating attitude if you don't believe me, write to the considãred necessary by any. Birth control -d ditl thc Vietnamese have? In the beginning that depresses my faith in radical, left, & al- headquartcrs in Chicago-and improrrement, education, and dissemination organiiation's the NLIr. u'sed nonyiolence that raised the ternative ideologies; a refusal to recognize the I\UW an Anarchist of that strüggle, as are asñ straieht out: "ls hair on the nccks of Diem and his his den that while one may scorn anotherls politics *"'itt"tïuti oaits the IlilW tries to equalizing incomes in-this- union?"1ike WIN itself, of thicvcs. Do we maintain our elite stance or mental capacities, the assumption of stopping rape ànd RENKEN be'affthings to all radicals, ând in my and denounco them because they elected to responsibility for one young life is not COúNITV. ' -'NORAH Ore. opinion it is the worry for it. lightly undertaken. .,. Portland, dcfcnd themselves with arms? They werq Please do not mistake mY meanrng: homes and families. Michele Clark cites our own orphanageg after all fighting for their Thank you for printing Barbara Dsmings.. Whatevet disagreements I may have with a policy of crammed with unwanted childrqn, com- The PRG never has employed "1o r"ot lane Álpert ii tQ Fear ourselves". the IWW or oiher syndicalists, or with . I would likc to stato my vicws on thc end of sea¡ðh and destroy; never have they satuta' plains that no one is lining up outside of '. ÍWIN. 5/221751-This piece of beautiful - Borsodi's centralized World Govemment thc Victnam war, not only in rcsponse to cities as a method of phone booths kids. Then tion bombed or shelled to beg for these wúting has touched on so many trio. I do not object at all to your having also Fìd änO aô"p tho. writçrs f WlN, 5/l/751, but to wanton dcstruction. A rural guerrilla army she goes after the "extremely naive and un- descrip- of the iisues that concern me most. It , orôônæ¿ these people's views or , Lazar lLcttcrs, a/15/751 . is not built on terror but cooperation. introspective people" who have chosen to moves from place to place in my own life, iions'of their activities. What I do object to . I agrcc with Jin l;orest, Tom Cornell The victory of the PRG came not so adopt Vietnameæ children. How about the iüutin"ting, .larifying, honingÎn and open- is your presenting them in such a way that' 1975 Xl, No. 19 and Staughton Lynd about thc PRG vic- much f¡6m military force. Thieu's govem- rest of us who have chosen to adopt no one May lVol. ins uo. Thank You, WIN. Thank You, thó reader is led to betieve all this is Ana¡- tory, and I fìnd it dcplorablc that pcople ment collapsed because there was no sus- thosg at all? Has Ms. Clark adopted one of DWORKIN chisi. Anarchisn is a distinct thing; it is it without romembering the great popular fó¡ no other own Bñú;a -ANDREA 4. The Continuing Agony of Northern cclcbrato tgnance, no suppgrt unwanted Americans languishing in our New York, iftr tef¡.f tnat authoritar!1¡ism is harmful, loss of lifb infìictcd to achieve it. Ed Lazar reasgn. Córruption and"terror spelled his orphanages? \l,.I lreland Cloudlo Drelfus and that therefô¡e we need no govemments I was right to qucstion thc wisdom of a paci' end. If so,.my apologies; she knows whereqf I have several comments on your isue of at alL People certainly do have a right to- 10. From a Kibbutz on the lsraeli' list magazinc using thc.term, "liberation" tô Many years ago the war would.have been she speaks. If not, I rouse myself from a sul- May 15 which'is represented as dealing with Aisagte" wittt this just as much as they like' Lbeanon Border I Poula RoYman tlcscribc military campàigns. Hówever, I can' ovér had not the'United States continued. len bourgeois silence to suggest that she Ana¡chisn. butihey æûainly do nothalrq the right to not conclude that what the PRG did was as intcrfe¡ence. Our nonviolent resistence here direct her righteous indignation toward less 12. Prison Letters First.of all, it is plain to me that Muray falsely claim that proposers'ofworld gov- horriblc as thc atrocitics of our govemment in the monster helped extricate the military well-meaning citizens. ROBBINS - the'DC I M¡tch ' -LYNNE Rosenblith, at least, who introduced the emmãnt repreænf Analchisn' or that the f¡t Inside lail in Cambodia anrl Vietnam; machine. Wilton, Conn. isue. felt rather guilty about its contents' IWW is Anarchist, when that isdt true' Snyder- I ani a pacilìst anpacifism to have years. I really don't believe that resisting Ïöäi'f;h.tph;;ñË;i""äri¡". more cans? Is it a negation of any sort proof that one has labored in hãve n.urr tr"¿ as good a response as this. Perhaps.even CO.CONSPIRATORS taxss that empower poor wonien to make nüJ'àão"uts we compassion for people who ùe finally the vineyards of moral certainty. that havecome ¡n. Wa want to. decisions about childbearing is thing ;ä;iffi;;ir if.rì ã*pr.rsions ofinthus¡asm ' throwing off the burden of Wcstern rule? In the same issue is an articlc lambasting ajust iligé contr¡butors and those who to do. (Besides, one of those poor women rhank all of you-the *.ri"åãü'ìuu:iõiiitñf Can this be done uiithout applauding those chauvinistic pigrnothers who sought to yóur.help during this cruc¡al moment' violence, or loving the PRG? I believe so. assauge their "deserved" guilt by adopting could be me some time.) It is easier to force üää ú.rî abte to rónïtiUrtu-fot pteázurab.te way. foi.you to heþ would be Vietnamese orphanò (i.e., ripping off the poor wornen to have children than to force . And"ãi remember that;;;-t'rrely -'ì^t,îl"|åffiË 31st. (See page 22 or call scant remaining blossoms of that blighted rich women to have children. It is also to come ro rhe wine ¡ji;; ;î Hiltt fòt on May country and bringing them up as culturally easier to force them into unwanted abor- W¡N for details.) Instead of singling out one individual, I deprived malignant Americans). It may have tions and sterilizations or whatever wealth- Don,tlookforacopyofWlNinyourmailboxnextweek.We'retaking. give decide should be their at put off while we're w.ould like to reply to the letters f¡om taken Michele Cla¡k a few days to birth ier taxpayers lot äTdJr.,-ut üó ãî tnJ stur rhar sets the adoptive parents the time. on.lJi'oïiî;;Ërffi;¿r;; ln' pacifists condemning the PRG for using to her angry articlè; ñä^t ¡rt*-*¡rr ¿ït"¿ ,un. 12 and má¡led on June s. military violencr to erase the Thieu regime have taken on, by taking in one orphan, a Please let's not swallow the capitalist lie ;;bii;h;'ü.îñã how the financial situa' cluded in it will Ue a morã deh¡led repoit on exactlv and finally ejecting imperialist America minimum of.16 years and $20,000 worth of in ou¡ haste to be impeccably nonviolent ãt*'r wine tasting party). from Vietnam, child-rearing. Many of them werd already ex- with "ourl'money. Instead I would like to rion is shapins up. See;;ï;;i;iní.vu. 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all these men walking about with loaded g-uns-pointed at peoole-at me! Oh yes, there were soldiers here five u"årr' äso. But lesus, it was nothing like this." The prañk sucks'in his breath. "l've been stopped on the street and lined up against'the wall,'rh.e says, "lt's iii"fri.ni"*. ath vtt, wtrðn ttrey click the¡r.5äfety'locks' i' 'Gonti Yo"u think]'wtrat ¡f ã bomb goBs off somewhere? The pull the (rigger." nul' :i: ng .damned Brit could get nervõus.and , Quickly, he shruls off the irhage. "You ¡99 {íis' . poiñting to a sheä'of a buildin!.' 'i'' øace,;' h; iays, ' 'iT'wár once a fish and chips shop. But the place got' Agony of people goÈ them: bombed so many times and so many sevles killed thai we began to call ¡t, 'The Last Supper.' Ya, see, Belfast people have not lost their sense of t 'humor,t' : Northern' sud- $ Èrank looks long at "The Last Supper." Quite denty, his face changes. "Whèn I m-et yo.u in'69," he .explodes; "l was all for civil rights.-l believed.i! pos lreland sible to ácn¡eve equal rights for,Catholics within the framework of Norfhern lreland. Now, I believe the Brits are onlv concerned with protecting their capital- istið interéstihere and so, I don't want to reform the svstem. . .l want to destroy it! That's*ryhy, I give my 1R,4.'They are the tätal support to the Provisional (1' only on'es with their prioiities right." "But so many of your old'friends from civil riglits became Ofücials. . ." ' "They are cowards. You can't get socialism until you have a country first. All they doistolk, talk, tolk ånd orsanize their damned.tenant's committees. There'ionlÍ one solution: Brits.Out First!" Heartbreäking that conversation was' Not that I Photo by Rlchard Kalvar wui i"ttu¡n Fran-Í< was wrong; it was iust his uncom- promising bitterness that frightened. I had come to 'Belfast tõ see people I'd loved and felt closély con' nected to, people who happened to be leaders in the Northern lrish civil rights moverhent: to see.how \ s they'd survived five yéars of warfare, to see if the-y'd t By Glaudia Dreifus suriived at all. I donit knowwhat I expected to find, l but Frank reminded me of a reiative of mine whord Gogarty, the former but I 'suspect it happened one night in October,1972,, been tortured by the Gestapo and who's never þeon Drizzly Belfast,"l974. Frank commitments, he was no longer a maior activist. He Civil Rights Associa- when a gãng of Paisleyite (Protestant?) neighbors quite the same since. Anyonp less naive could have Chairman of the Northern lreland said little äs we walked. Only every now and then he'd years ago, when guns petrol bombs and blew-up tôld me that is a crippling affect to living under siege. tion and I were taking a walking tour five came with sticks, and about how wonderful it was that Úe mutter something No matter what the World War ll noyels say, warfare the barricades firbt went up in Belfast. Frank and his his elegant home. Until then, Frank lived on one of wãi" álLst¡tl alivð"considerin'the past five years and' aout r'ot ennoble; it kills the spirit of even thosE who family were my hosts as I covered the birth of Ulster's the most expensive blocks in Belfast, and it was he, all." cuirent "Troubles." who fought his rich Protestant neighbors to permit a survive. , Belfast the city¡ was worn in Thinking back to September, 1969-when last housing project for working-class Protestants just up Like Gogarty the man, And sometimes it kills the body; too. One night place of smog and dirt Frank and I walked these streets-the thing I remember the marauders out. lt's always'been a terrible 1969, J walked the Fall's Road barricades with a itre roa¿. nnO ít was.from-that-prg¡ect red-brick row-on-row slums. But now, citizens of the Fall's most about him was the incredible, almost unnatural öå-nie-; örsiäÈ him with cries of "Eeath to the Fenian and.tiorrid little youn'g IR¡ soldier. The Catholic urbariguerilla charity, he reserved for the ordinary Ulster Protestant. bastard." wii¡ arit¡itì Army occupation and wiih had bãrricaded themselves after several blo,cks óf their verge of a riervous break- ground One night, after agang of Protestant thugs ("Do¡'t Flashback to 1969: I remember Frank building warfare, this Was a city on the houses had been burnt to the by Protestant troops on patrol every- would be call them Protestants, Claudia. Thier Paisleyites.''- We bunkers, in the old house. "When this pláce is attacked," down. Belfast collage: British móbs. (Postscrìpt from î975: ToQay ¡\!l soldiers in the There it was: ¡ don't call people by their religion here," Gogarty ad- he explained, "¡ìerhaps some of the wee children can where in the Catholic community-few nothìnà but on' evervday occuirerìbe,) Belfast, armed observa' monished) battered his head fo such a pul'p that part hide here and suryive." Protestant d¡stricts; in Catholic iñe Þui¡s communé-Belfast Style, 1969. lnside "Freei ugly rob.ot-loolcing paid, the Citize.n's of his ear fell off, he told me this: "The Protestant Uuntcersdid save iives that night' tion posts every few blocks-blg -- Belfast," no rents were þeing fnot" blocked off people, they are just like us. They live as poorly as lf it wasn't the destruction of his home that build'ings, surróunded by net fencing,'with Defensô Committee patioled the streeps, Radjo Free guns pointed pedestrians; food and Catñotics. Together, we will build something new." wrecked Gogarty's charity, then it was a dozen other windovis'for machine 4t Belfast blared long banned lrish rebel songs; gaps the sÛeets talk I don't know where exactly F-rank's Christian ' incidents; the constant attempts on his life; the burn- routine Army seaiches doryntown; in mon"y was shared] everyone tal$ed brave new landmarks are were going charíty metainorphisized into natíonalist bitterness, ings of his two automobiles; the disintegration of his where houses oncd stood. The maior ' about the beautifúl socialist lreland they do you remember is going to dental surgery practíce by a Protestant boycott; the those of destruction: "Ach, Claudia, to build. "No gen'eiation of lrish children parking lot. . . At poverty and lowliness Followers of the Rev, lan Paisley, a fundamentallst preacher' six month-iaii ientence that came because. of his civil the Springfield-Market. . .it's this live with the tuberculosis and graduatå of Bob Jones Chrlstlan College ln Texas and now a raids.on his this oub.Ihe Prods bombed 12 to their dèaths. . . Here follow¡ng among non' rights work; the frequent Briti$h Army * Arml€s ln Elre. The Member of Parllament' He has a blg . An assassination squad killed a wee boy TheÍe are two lrlsh Republlcen "Of' CathollcE hõme; and then the final pain-the fact that like itrt"å ¿¡é¿. . flclals" are marxlsts and ssek td avold sectarlan warfare be' 60,00b other Belfasters, he was a-refugee within his here.. . ." tween tt¡e two s€ctlons of lr€land's worklngþclâ3s. Tho "-piãvìsionars" want a 32 county soclallst lroland' but th€lr o and a ferVinist, author own city: Onóe, he'd btien one of the few Catholics to gêtting the Ctoudia Dreifus is iournalist We walk through the New Lodge Road Area and nriiããmáná and thelr maior cóncern ls rld of Fate, Bontam, and has wrìtten for t-he make it into Uliter society; now he wai homeless. er¡iisfr. àotn IRA's do engage ln guerllla warfare, though the of Woman's we are surrounded by a British patrol. They stare at conducted Circle, Rolling Stone Frank Gogarty looked thin, his'eyes were deeply ¡úr ot ttre flqhtlng agalnst fhe Brltlsh has beên Progressive, fåe Ñation, Family us. suns oointed. We'walk on. "Does that ever fright' by tne Provoi Sometlmes, thç tPo groups have fought each sunken, and iomehow, though he felt deep political and McCalls. ðñioJi'; l ask. "You see Frank, l do find it unnerving other.

4 WIN wrN 5 -\ I I see Boyle, we get so engrossed in a.shatteringdiscus- unification with lreland and they wanted none of it' sion thai the meeting idea never really comes up' r..dership of the Ulster Worker's Çqlttlçit' - u"Jrillì ke' do you thiñk of Harry Murray," lbegin' a d evastati n g Execu tive general 'lWhat tr'tä" I uú n tfl"d -6tri we grasp at straws,t' says Kevin' "We rot six wJeks in the sprins of 1974 "ön, *. lrish; Ñ;dhi;;;Ë¿ tó the rise bf wõrking-class Protestant politics ii"fand'teetered on the brink of civil war' look Ñãilfléin can overcome the enormity of sectarian gin as people here caJl it with a and we hope it fft'" Blow Out for is such a slim reed in àr.i¿"¿"r"nrt of ineviiabiiity.) When the British Army fruitt¿. Wtiat Murray stands of the bigger thing." iéiutàJ the UWC, 'the.Execu.tive fell; and the face tã Bidger Thlñfis the irratibnal visciousness.that Catholic Belf:rst"onfront became more frightened than ever' fft" 4 lreland'ever and'evqr closer to The ('itt"u;¿ us get away with stuff, like thát," biings Noühern a? never let h.er post-Strik€"' youth-complained. "We couldn't have Big-Ëlowout. When England issuéd '¿ ' ànL rít;t noad it wås a caçitula- *' ' the first p!4ce," his compãnion, a member wñl;Þ;d;'bäti' t¡¿"sigt".littut ããn. üin demands; no Council of lreland, nd retorted''"we've got no iobs to strike tion to Protestant ãi iñ"ôm.iuls power-sharing' a constitutional convention iUoui."l ittough the stiike was tlrrifying to Catholic imoosed titn't soon to deãíde the province's future' "What uràuà'trt to fore a wholeîd-w group oftoyal- tri,ã ul;;;, ¡t Boyle asserts, "is that they will who were dífferent frorfr anything in lñ" Srititlt are saying" iit leaäers: men let events happen. ln historv. unlike the traditional A1slo' do no more. They wìil -military ;l;;;;;i;";'s terms, thev are not prepared to repress any further' So l who ian the Protestant unioniit Partv, i;i;f ;;irã;;ts action will come from the Loyalists' ir'rãr.îãl *.re shipyard workers. Thsyçwanted no part the néxt répressive unbiþoted' I óan see us waking up one morning and finding trv'o I ãiã r"iit¿ lreland, but some of them vÞre hundred Catholicimurdeled. Then you'd have a kind I And that wøs new. I at ship- ãf Palestinian situation: Catholics would mass the I Murray, the short, stout, ope.n'faced, ütt go.rJelin fear, there'd be a redrawing of national tradó-unionist who heads the Ulster wright ind South Armagh and its Cdtholic õouncil, greeted me warmly,at the door of uãrÉäui¡.t'with W"it"* going to the Republic, and the.new Ulster suburbãn Belfast home. He.was a pleasant majority frit to¿ttt rõfusing to let thç refugeës back.in"'lt spoke straight from his emotions' All ãoi"tnótît *án, *tto a highly probable scenario I be- ' îould be a ðisaster-and it's i lliãLàrlout'¿inner-ai he talked of conciliation i I going. ReprlÞlic has no capacity kept having to pinch thã way things are The i*t"n"tl't" communities-l ¡nY' pãpulation. There's not a single l'rir t*itv the man wh'ó broeght the Six Coun- iã suðh a laige ;ifïi; in¿uttry"UrotU in South Armagh' The refugees might well ties w¡thin an inch of civil war? have to emigrate." he says betwe-en forks of ' - . "People on both sides," i'lf the Lõy-alists fake,the initiative there's nothinÉ ¿'have been.fed fears b.y un' A Belfast street scene. Photo by Oonal McC_uilen/LNS. chips and cold chicken, to stop them. The British Army sat o¡ its.hands dur' politicians' Are not a-ll Ulster people'the icrüputous ing tf.ä Strike, did it not? As for the Provisionals, they we've known," my guide explained. everybody is born, everybqdy "They will have they've suffered fewer of the recent miseries, life was iãtnàl Eu"rvuody dies, ii,ui. no chanóe in a confrontation with ttie Loyalists' dig¡ity. They go if the people of the will not have to to Austrialia and now uncomfortable-sometimes even dangerous. Be- suffers a toothache. I believe The Lovalists are armed to the'teeth and what they America for jobs. ya, and Cathol¡c communities were to meet I tell these barricades won't fore'69, the Ulster Protestant, a hard-working, stern, Protestant do is to kill Catholics. The Provos can pro could sur- will sim'ply come down unt¡l the system.does." deeply religious_person, lived with the certain knowl- each other around tables like thi¡ohe, we kind of counter'terror,in Protestant dle 'One 'rornt common' lt is the iut. ná'tiin¡tar t night in the summer of 1g12, the British Army edge that his holy Ulster would always'be his; that anything. We have much-ä îäãL. wittt the minority already herded into ghettos, Ð launched Motormen." Bulldozers divide us." "Operation and the Protestant would forever be in ascendency. Then ooliticians that åri tñ. Lovutists have to do is cút a few roads, shut off tanks smashed Free Belfast '-;;\júh-t I venture, "were the catholics petri- to oblivion. Mv friend is came the. Provisional IRA and its economic campaign. 'f ;i;;;;' the water añd electricity and announce they are com- in a on a hilltop above the Fall's Road. jobs the Strike?" çemetery Factories were destroyed; too. The shopping d'ís- fied-;Wá bv ing with guns in two daYs. . '" against the politicans, no the Catholicg," Everywhere I went, as I searched out old friends, tricts of every town and village were blasted to rubble. *.t" Kevin looked tiaggard beyond words- A handsome For the past five years, he asse¡:ts. "Eñgland tried to put this Executive on us' what I found was death, disillusionment, exhaustion- the IRA has been saying: "lf man in his early thirties, his body-lang-t'lage.bespoke we you respeclthe fears of my Catholic brothers and all mixed up with a determination to go on because can'tlbuild something new, can't have the old i *àrf¿ ãvèrwork and ér4otional exhaustion. The thing he does system." So. life has become unhappy ' iisters ttrouþtr. Some of our politicians really.ought to- there seems like no other way. Meanwhile, half of Bel- and confined. -rlìÁrtt to t sane in ail of this is community law, legal aid ttrJm. We have evil men among us who talk of fast takes Valium, Liþrium and something called Loyalists are taking Valium, too. Worse yet, The ñ for the"rp poor. Considering The Troubles, he'5 got lots British, paramilitary They should retire. The real issues in "Roche 2." This is a drugged city. Those who don't after the Protestant began its eiiermination. of work. "When the civil. rights movement began, we assassination ut" not religióus anyway-they are bread and dose themselves, sit bleary-eyed in the handful of pubs campaign, started to intern l-oyalists. lt Úiit"t never thought it would come to this," he sighs' "Peo- that have not been bombed. Pubs, once the center of was the Protestants who first demanded internment- butter.""" ole certainlv did not anticipate the scale of .the vio' . nf åte and more, Harry Murray is sounding like community life, are now death traps. Because they without trial for Catholics and who are now finding ience, nor: tire enormity of the im-passe. We thought getting are Catholic owned, they are regular targets for themselves lifted in the middle of the night there was more good will on the Protestant side than Protestant kill-teams. Nevertheless, people sit there and tossed into Long Kesh. ihrt. *^t. Me, l;m living day !o'gay. I want to see the drinkins themselves ihto stupors tträt gò well beyond Then came the final disillusionmení Early last year, disaster' of civil war avoidëd. And-o¡e always lives in England political . ordinary drunkenness; risking death itself for alcoholic attempted to impose a middle-of-the f.opã. V.t, I've known about a half dozen people relief. road solution on the Six Counties. The idea of the *i'Ju" ¿ió¿. ttrat affects one. 'lt takes the heart out of Northern I was in Belfast three days when I realized that like lreland Executive was that Britain would ap- living, in a way. I feel a sort of terrible ¡rr¡tation that point government everyone else, I was drinking too much. "Go ínterview a of Catholic and Protestant minis- what"seemed obvious to me a couple of years ago- iers: miãdle-class the other side," a Catholic fiiend advised. "lt'll do moderates from both sides.x There , that religion was irrelevant and that pgople can ioin to' you good tò see something else." would also be a Council of lreland to coordinate some g.lñ"t iõ create a just sgcietY, is not going to happen"' economic "- Frankly, I didn't know if it was possible to inter- activities between North and South. As I leave, Boyie [ells me that for the first time in ' Frankly, view Loyalists. ln 1969, Protestant militants thought the Executive had few supporters beyond his life. he's seriously considering emigrating' government, of the foreign press in the same way they thought of the British the lr¡sh government and the I think of him all the next morning as I ride on an Ulster"middle-class. the Pope. Once, as I photographed a group of bombed '.'SELL OUT!" Everyone else cfied. overcrowded bus th¿t is heading for LongKesh irttern- Loyalists were this was the first step to out houses on Bombay Street (bòmbed by Protestãnß, convinced r.ni tutp. A new friend, Mairè prumm, Vice Presí: formerly occupied by Catholics), I närrowly escaped a *Since Nofthern !reland has always been ruled by a Brltlsh .àent of th'e Provisional Sinn'Fein*, has devised a clevêr pollticians stoníng. I do remember a reporter feudal aristocracy, the lntroduction of mlddle-class ptan to sneak me inside. Though reporters are not al- then, covering one could be viewed as a progr€sslve step. However, in a country of lan Paisley's rally's, who lost his front teeth. ttlat has súch an enormous work¡ngþclass and sub-worklng *Thls ls a very racl¡cal statement. The Protestants cons¡der scotch, but never lris¡' Things have changed, past years class, bourgeois politicans were not lik€ly to have much of tne*iåìrej Èiiti.n or scotelrish or though. The five paramllitary groups conslder themselves lrlsh and nothlng olse-and â base, The on both sides'are closer to öatholics * The political arm of the Prov¡sional IRA' have hardly been pleasant for most Protestants. Though Nctrthern lrish reallty, but were not a part of thé Execut¡ve, ttrus ttre whole Þroblem becomes a hatlonal questlon' wlN.7 6 WrN lowed into the Kesh, Maire has put me down as an .Alsatian police dogs yelping from between fences' American cousin of her eldest son, internee Shaemus ' 'fhat's all. Drumm, 26. On the bus, thg women all laugh with ex- We go tÒ a filthy water-logged hut near the parking citementr how lovely it isto pull a fast one on the lot and are locked in. After a long wait, to another hut Brits! Me, I'm shaking a little. Truly, I have nb idea where we are searched. Everything but our clothing is what the penalties arè for breaking'into one of Her taken from us and put into a bag. Then, a bus takes us Majesty's internment camps, but I suspect them to be into the body of the camp itself. As we drive, I can dis- unpleasant. cern no signs of life, no fprms: just more mazes..lnto "Ach, don't worry about Kevin Boyle," Maire in- .another shack, for another locked-up wàit. When our sists, as she tries to take my mind away from my names are called, we are sent through a series of bar- double tension. "He's a gloomy man and our situation ricades; each of us is followed by our own personal is hardly gloomy." Maire ¡s the def¡n¡t¡on of the strong guard, as if we too, were prisoners. And there, in a

Belfast woman, a remarkable example of a commoq small open room, with a guard birddogging him, is _ type: physically largè, locquacious, unafraid, passion- Shaemus Drumm, interned on charges of being a meml ate, the equal of any man in her midst. ber of the lRA. "The people have defended themselves for five He is tired. There was an attempted breakout the years and will continue to do so," she,continues. 'fAs night before and the Army came into the huts and for this coming'bloodbath,'wq've already had a blood- kept the prisoners awake. Also, there iq sad news: a bath: it came from the Brits. We're winning! We have ,young boy died of an ear'infection. the people behind us. We've inflicted seiere losses on "How do you die of an ear infection?" I inquire. ; the British and they've admitted they.cari't,defeat us." "Neglect. .Or worser" Shaemus answers. "People Drumm is not all wrong. The Provisional IRA has here die of things they needn't die of, if you know sustained the first sqccessful urban guerilla war in whatlmean.,." Europe since World War ll. When you consider the "Do. you think you'll ever get out of here?" I ask. modernity of the British counter-¡nsurgency program, "T'is'hard to say. I've been studying to get into you realize that the Provos have remarkable support Queen's University and they've accepted me. , .but who in Catholic areas. Who would havç thought they could can know? Part of the torture is that they take you have survived this long? The repression, ãs symbolized and never let you know when it's going to end. There's by Long Kesh, has been intense. nothing much to do here, except maybe to die." . Long Kesh. lnternment. For the Catholic people, After a half-hour, a guard removes us. ln the park- internment is the sorest wound. Until recently, it was ing-lot, Mrs. O'Neill is weeplng hysteçically. "They'll only Catholics who were rounded up during mid-night not free him. They want him to die of the heart, they raids, interrogated, (and sometimes tortured) locked want him fo die." up without trial, herded into internment camps for in- Later that afternoon, I am sitting in my hotel room definite periods of time. Though some Loyalists are with an old friend, drinking away the grey images of now getting "l¡fted,'1 numerically it is still the minority Long Kesh. Suddenly-quiteJrom nowhere-windows population of the Six Çounties that makes up the mas shatter and a massive explosioh shakes the building. \ sive majority of Long Kesh. "lt's only a bomb," says my fiiend, most.calmly as On the bus; next to Maire, sits an elderly woman, a she pours herself another drink. "You get used t1it,,, Mrs. O'Neill. She's been up all níght pleading with you- know," authorities for her husband's release. Mr. O'Neill has Jesus, you do get used to things in Belfast. Yqu Get ffi suffered two heart attacks behiird the wirq and since Used To lt, I heard that phrase a hundred times all ffi Merlyn Rees, Northern lrèland Secretary of State, has week as people explained how they live with the im- just announced the release of seven internees, Mrs. possible. Phil Curran, a Catholíc activist summed it up O'Neill wants her man to be among them. best: "ln the 1960's, I'd watch television and wonder "Oh, I wish she wouldn't deceive herself," Maire how it was that anyone stayed in Vietnam. Now I know whispers to me. "There are no definite sentences and You get used to it.." they don't let people out for reasons of charity or The management of the Hotel Erlrropa was qtite logic.l' useY to it. This car bomb was aimed at the Hotel (for Every woman on the bus is harboring secret hopes the 2ird time), but planted across the street because 'the that her man might bè one of the seven. attackers could get no closer. At the Europa's bar, "ls this the first concentration camp you've seen?" journalists were all merrily guessing it to be Provo job. w a wom,an near me inquires. I reel at the question, "The¡,e was a warning. The Loyalists never warn,t' one thinking of relatives who knew Auschwítz. saíd. Casualty toll: The Europa Hotel was once again And Long Kesh, it turns out'truly is a concentration missing its window panes. Motive: Tonight'is the eve' , camp, though it lacks crematoria. A former World War of the most sacred of all Ulster Protestant Holidays- ll aerodrome, the camp consists of a series of uninsu- ' luly 12, the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. lated, unheated, unsanitary corrugated huts plunked "This is the Provos way of telling the Loyalists they down on top of abandoned runways. The living have the capacity to bomb downtown anytime they quarters are surrounded by a British Army compound, choose," one local ,journalist explained. "lt's also their, whích is surrounded by endless mazes of wiring; fences way of telling their adversaries to go to hell." so dense that you can seè neither out nor in. Men in- An hour later, Eu'ropa journalistic boozing was in- side feel so deprived that they spend their days search- terputed by a hysterical woman, red-faced, running in- ing for something to look aü they stare at a¡television . to the bar and screaming something about an explosion tower ¡n the distance-the only object they can see, at the Hercules Bar down the road. "There's nothing though Long Kesh is surrounded by mountaíns. There left. . .just smoke and cinders. . ,and þlood." are few recreational facilities, no real hospitals, no noth- The, Hercu[es had beeñ a Catholic owned pub, ing. Honestly, I cannot describe the bleakness of the ' located directly across the street fl om a British Army plãce: just coid, wet, greyness. Sometimes, you hear post; a safe enough spot, one would think. Neverthe-

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, ¡' of milk and pouncl of butter which is the dilemma tac- count on themselves. Feelings about the Ul and Kis' ;'mission mixed. The situation ing" many city-dwellers. singei'i imposiible" are "fr'rã,iãri'prominent reaction I have had dqrins qI contributed to the r:ealization that in ñ-r-¿o.fl¡nu has tränsition intä lsraeli life and the kibbutz border comj PAULA RAYMAN people are less willing to allocate re- the Àmerican tunity in particular has been the constant iarring ': miiitaiy expenditures abroad and that Kis- soú;;.; i; rãnré óf U.j¡ne within a country on the brink of war' Life has changed on Kibbutz Hanita here is to maintain the U-S as since I lived tini"t;t piincipat concern iïãlio"tit"Ëe of watching th'e news reports on TV in 1970-71 but living goes on. There are many indica- Vei most kibbutzniks at Hanita still feel ';;;;-;;;;; in America is totally different from direct contact tions of change on this settlement of 400 not let lsrael suffer a defeat in war' Jeúish t-ft.'Uiioul¿ W¡tf, it'" people living the news. From afar it was people located on the top of a mountain range which Readiness for another war is apparenteverywhere óiri"r" io intellðctually analvse the situation, separates lsrael from Lebanon. Along the road from . ärlf'r lsraet ttrough few think it will happen in the im- have meetings and discussions on the issue ot a Nahariya, the nearest town (which last year was the ¡n Mv friend who managQs a fac¡orY in Þálestinian S1ate, argue for one state/two.state5' scene of a terrorist action) there are three new road- ili;,;iuirri. Tel Aviv told me four out of fìve foremen are now iñvolvement. The media and even blocks guarded by lsraeli soldiers who check all ongo- ;;ì;äM"rican i" the kibbutzs homerin (soldier.-guardÐ are antiseptic and keep us from knowing ing traffìc. From the bottom of the mountain to lnäúiìii"i; iv óiãiut.t iiu"-¡n uutiu"ks in the community and all kibbutz tr-rl of the feai and destruction, despe-rateness Hanita at the top there is a new army road along side iiig.¿v men and women' have guard.duty.in.addi' ànã ¡ããtn trtut are part of war and theref.ore found the old which allows ta'nks and other military equip- ;t*6*, THE lìã" to tÉ" regular work hours and kitchen duties' *iir,i"lri".li socieiy. I feel more sympathy.for the olv ment to move along the northern border from the persist: one deeper ù"räriãt fro;r the october War acutely i;;;;ìì i;;irÁ peopló but simultaneouslv'a Mediterranean Sea towards Syria. At night I can hear u"rnã memUer was killed, another lost his leg and .rìä.ål'i*"i.ness'of their prei udices (i'e' Palesìl nians' the roaring sounds of the tanks as they pass to and front of his non-Jew-s) wurting with bais each day in l",,"r people, one cannot trust . fro each hour. åi*ii.ãt Ã;;r;;¿ /SRáEL- lriti root. Theie seems to be the feeling that il1i';i;;(;itt'1u trnuiuau, defensíve posture) is begin- Around Hanita itself there is a barbed wire fence choice, ein ãnãih.t war is inevitable, that there i-s no ning to emeÈge. which now prohibits the short trips we used to ' take breiro, thal there are no alternatives tor actlon' irlãr. *ut"an article in WIN l3l6175l bv Uri Davis into the surrounding hills and caves. The contrast the WRL's Middle East One member who lived abroad for two years while and-isiael Shahak criticizing between the-beauty of the kibbutz, with its blossom: by Allan Solomonow' At.the. as a youth organizer. in.England said üåt*tnt ãnd a rdply ing trees, vivid colored flowers and commanding view r.tuini Jewish tone oT thelr plece changed in Hanila' Born on the time I disagreed with the accusative of the Mediterranean, and the stark reality of ,the irre ôíatitv ót lif. nus ilis- given up. chal- and foundlt counterproductive to constructive fence is perhaps a symbol of the kind of life people íiiuuirti, he feels most members have socialism I r'e-read the WRL statement again here lead. Sínce Hanita was the target of an unsuccess- leneine'discussions, struggl¡ng for kibbutz functions' "rir¡on:'Ho*ever,at the k¡bbutz and found it even more ful terrorist action (two guerillas entered the kibbutz anipissionately participating in [ibbutz after arriving Dav is/Shahak respo nse becau se.it. not .H" not"¿ how múch more tim€'iridividual members irr f ¡ than"the from Lebanon but were driven off before hostages "e of the reality of the Mid soend in their private rooms,'eating dinner there onlv aîoids a clear analysis I. could be taken) last December all male members of present, but also posits the thun in the communal hall. Although the recent Eäii. t'¡ttori.ally and at the kibbutz carry guns at all times: in the communal :, i"th.t at best naive and children sleepat their parent's home ki"d action that seems dining hall, to the weekly movie, in the TV room añd ' ¿eiis¡on to have from genuine .to communal children's sleeping houses iì *oitt"ï;;;;iolént directs peop[e's action away work. Yesterday I watched a father putting his . and close the No one here would welcome a group daughter to bed in the children's house after a piggy- *¡tt tut. fiye years to put ¡nto effect-(it will take that radical activity. to secure their safety' lt would iu.stly be back ride while a rifle hung loosely on his shoulder. íone to build ;dditioni to the parent's homes) it also of outsiders of paternalism and to radic¿ls and Afterwards I told him that it was very diffìcult for me iÃäi.iiti n [essening of communal ties' Many kibbutz uir*ããït ir"rm a movément reminiscent of colonial to feel comfortable with a gun's presence and he ó"itntt seem appre-hensive that their children will not Äiau ó"opr"t replied that his children were his future and the gun l"ãu. the kiubutz but lsrael as well' of the fìve' benevolence'-- ãñll important for all those coneerned insured have a future. age I was closest to four years ago only ii it tuttt'more they would o"o'¡t. mv general and the Middlé East in question in Hanita: one is in Canada, another wit'f' nãnuiot"nce in On the of their security, the kibbutzniks å"ã ttilf tätãint their energy on developing one in and the last in an ls- oarticular to concentrate with whom I have had conversations have a more sober in Cãtiforn¡u; Jerusalem of the history of the-conflict' were born in Hanita. ãittãiti r"¿erstanding and somewhat dogmatic attitude than before the Oc-. '--innii¡onraeli town. All poliiical dimensions and, for those has hit lsraelis as a whole very.hard ihi .ionot¡" and tober'1973 War. A certain confidence that contributed which the nature of US interests in during the past p.ol.ths),. in a ;i;;;ñ ;re Americans, to both an aggressive chauvinism and a life-style (it ä"tîåá" +0'So% . to ask ourselves if ¡[ has al- ;d;";'t;. More than evór wç ¡ged buoyancy is gone. People seem much more aware that iition wtl"r" the tax rate is the world's highest, we haie the discipline to "do our"homework" so we they have little control over the events that determine un effect on kibbutz consumption arid produc- ' iã ttuà our confusion, if we can bear to speak the political situation and the possibility of another iion Urt for the most.part the kibbutznik- is better off can overcome tirif't while being named anti-Semites, self'haters, war. They feel that lsrael is isolated from the rest of . ihan the city dweller' The responsibility for meeting iñ" and uto-pians, if we can put into action the world, and therefore as lsraelis they can only inà uus¡c neäds of each member rests ùpon the entire cómmrnittt strategy which strongly challenges the and not on the single breadwinner' The nonviolent iommunity quo power'politics. There is not one person on foi instance may have to choose between build- status kibbutz that now believes that his/her security is ing u n.* kindergarten or buying new machinery but iñîtìubrti quart not tied to the gun. thls is quite diferent than choosing between a $r

wrN 11 to wtN - ficult to cgntrol, or const¡tuted an obvious danger to And so I fight. Nonviolence is my weapon; it is also the drugs might appea¡, The my creed. I willfight in the streets; I will fight in the a hirirself and others, wonder drugs that turn human brain cells into vege- ,courts; I willfight in the prisons; I will fight until I am table matter. For some restraints are the order of the dead. And I will try to live in such a way that not even pRtsoN lerrERs: day. One hand chained to the head of the bed,'one death can still my voice. For all the little children of Ð foot s¡akcled to the base board' And the man was the world, for thê sake of my own soul, and for the now free to urinate and defacate all over himself. To lovet of God, I can do no less. t be cleaned occasionally, for wo,are a civi'li2êd people., a" ,tronj in the spirit açà neutttty oî uoay. ln the And above all the suffering and pain hovers the words of a prison poet: .

ii iì 'l :1 The Mayaguez. Photo by LNs. ! truant offìcer). Others want to try their hand at a de- cent lob. So even though we work hard each year to recruit resource people for a wide range of course offer- TIIE MAYAGUßZ ings, we always seem to end up with iust the basic A Letter skills qourses flourishing. We've found that people who AFFAIR to want to do serious readìng in such areas as F.niinist Literature will do it at home on their own, or with a Paul Coodman couple of close friends. I But rather than discuss about how Multicultural Factual Background operates, we'd rather share the psychological ups and On Monday, May 12, Cambodian ships boarded the from an downs we've been through; because it was during these Mayaguez, an American merchant sf ip. The State ,'Paul times that we found ourselves saying Gooðman, Department claimed the Cambodian action an "act Alternative School if no one else, would understand wh-at rye're trying to' of p¡racy," insisting the Maylgyez was on the high do." Seems that a couple of times a year, we start seas. There is some question where the Mayaguez was (The wondering if we're doing the right thing. Some adults when bbarded. lt seeiîs likely it was within disputed larid was invaded by US Marines bombing of the yearn mainland occurred ofter the crew of the Mayaguez was in Milwaukee begin to for a more structured setting, one where waters, iust off an island to which both Cambodia and they can relate to a smaller number of students who South Vietnam lay claim. in US hands.) açted so swiftly is found would give them more concrete rewards. Some of us t The answer to why the US Was the Seizure Unusual? !1 politics, andto a start thinking about limiiing enrollrnent, maybe even to some extent in international No. The Cambodians had halted other ships in the .greater extent in domestic politics'.Having been requiring kids to take courses. Soon all the old ãrgu- : area and the-US, had it been seeking to avoid trouble in Cambodia.and ments for "tightening things up" come to the surface, ñumiliated by the smashing defeats at this moment, would have urged all US shipping to easy way to most of them linked to the charge that "Multicultuial Vietnam, Kissinger was looking for an keep well clear of disputed waters. So far as we know, ' power. the might is nothing but a clearinghouse and a copout and a, iemind the world of US Throwing no such order was issued. The Mayaguez was taken in gunboats place to escape the truant of the US Air Force against Ca4bodian was officer." disputed waters after US offcials knew the shipping of But just when we get the answer: lt was a cowardly act, as well as'an illegal thinking along these lines, other nations had encountered diffculty. Nor was the someone brings up the fact one. lt was also on a par with Kissinger's recent per- that our students like Cambodian action unusual. The Ecuadorian Navy has Multi as is. We got an positive formance-fairly stupid. lt strained relations with fust it overwhelmingly repeatedly seized US ships fishing the waters off the -[hailand, response to a ques(ionnaire we past which has now recalled its.Ambassador and sent out this sum- coast of Ecuador. Dear Friend: mer. And then someone will bring up the all important all but broken relations with the US. Politically it Was the Cambodián action justified? fact that most of our students left public school just could hardly impress China or Russia, which must It's like you said so often: People think youire crazy Probably not. Certainly the Cambodians have been surely have taken note that the US permitted Cam- you because they were fed up with adults dictating what if try to trust adolescents tq work out their own difficult to deal¡vith, holding more than 600 foreign- bodia and South Vietnam to fall and then displayed problems they should do with their time. And so we invariably at their own pace. Trouble is, you begin to ers in the French Embassy for some days before final- its by attacking some gun boats. decide to keep things aS they are and we begin to share impotence think they're right if you're not careful. And so this ly agreeing to permit them to depart by bus for the latest good news: Bill finally got a non-rip-off job; The real target of Ford's action was probably Ronald letter, which is both a way of thanking you for your Thailand. So far as is known, the Cambodians made Sue has found a better foster home for her and her Reagan the moral support over the years aríd a way of making us response US dem4nds for release the and the Republican right wing. Saving child; whom no one really got to know personally, no to initial of feel a little less crazy out here in Milwaukee Jim, ship. However, the very factthat the government of crew was incidental to saving fâce. Flexiñg muscle was has taken and pàssed the High School Equivalency politically You werê fond of pointing out the incredible tal- Carnbodia is new means that the normal lines of com- more crucial than exercising the brain. q. Exam all on his own, etc. This last, incidentally, looks *. ent adults have for screwing up the normal growth munication do not yet exist. The Cambodians may to be an incredibly_promising way of breaking th.e ,, eonclusions: proce.sses of young people. Well, almost by accident, well have felt that the Mayaguez was engaged in some monopoly public high schools have on skill accrddihl our alternative high school has developed in such a This affair does not mark the re-entry of the US into tion. hostile act. The.re would have been,¡mple basis for way that we couldn't do an efficie4t job of picking at such suspicions in view of previous Us actions. Cambodian/Vietnamese conflict, but a final and Who knows where it all will end? Maybe our students even if we wanted to. Fact is, we've the system predictable spasm of violence. lt was an illegal act, a will try to bust us when Was the crew of the Nlayaguez in danger? grown so fast and have so little money that adult we hit an enrollment of 1,000. cowardly act, and a foolish act-in short, the kind of Or just maybe they'll Yes, beyond question it wãs in profoùnd danger. That ,..i meddling has to be kept to a minimum. Three years realize they're losing a lot of thing at which great powers are particularly adept. State aid and begin a' danger, however, was from Henry Kigsînger, not the ago, there were about four or five adults working with tryirlg to meet the needs of the We have always said it is d4ngerous to arm people people still with them. All we know for sure is that Cambodians. There is no reason to assume the Cam- about 30 kids; and we had to consciously resist lhe because their guns make rational solutions a.second t- : I somehow we continue provide bodians would not have released the sh[p and crew impulse to force the kids into "doing something wo.rth- will to breathing room choice. What is discouraging is that Congress was so for all who come to us. people eventually. They might reasonably have sought to while with their lives." But as the word spread that And if continue to say- placid in the face of th¡s brutal assault on a tiny na- as we're sure they trade the ship and its crew for Cambodian aircraft Multicultural didn't,require people to take any classes, will-that we're not educating them, tion. Ford, appointed by a criminal, now takes his I we'll you which had flown to Thailand in the final stages of the that we accepted everyone who applied, charged send them to via Compulsory Mis-Education, place in the valid line of succession as a violator of no revolution, aircraft which the Cambodian government tuition, etc., people started to come to us from just And if they still don't understand-as we're sure will the laws of the land.. Congress continues its role of be insists must be returned. about every high school in the city. Last year, we the case with most-we'll have a party, preferably collaboration with the Pentago¡ until public pregsure Did the US ask the UN to intervene? served as the school of record for over 400 people. one where adult seriousness doein't drive out adoles- forces it to act. Might I sugglest lou write your mem- cent joy. And we Yes,ofter the US had sunk three Cambodian gun- ' Presently, our enrollment is over 500 with half the if adults find ourselves pulling their ber of Cpngress for whatever written statementò your joy "down.to earth" boats, Ford asked Waldheim to intervene. school year still to go. I might add, by the way, that we with talk of our troubles in find- member issued, and, unless that statement rebukçd ing a new person continue to scrape along on a $400 yearly budgeq resouice for the Southside, etc., we'll Wai Congress Consulted? the President for a clqar violation of law, put it ¡n sþlit from the party and have a quiet most of which is raised by students through bake sales few beers in your Ford says it was. Senator Mansfield says that he was your file marked "reasons for running a radical candi- memory. and small benefits. All státr people are vol"unteers with .ìnformed aftgr the decìsions hod been token, notcon- date in my district in "1976." the exception of one Vista volunteer who just joined sulted. Eithel Ford or Mansfield is lying, with the past Our best, All in all, a small and tragic affair, humiliating to us. And we continue to hold.all classes in church base- record suggesting it ís Ford. Americans but typical of our national conduct these ments and back rooms of social agencies. At present, The "old folks" at Multi- Why Did Ford Act so Swiftly? past decades; McReynolds we work -David out of six locations scattered around the city, cultural Community High The US actions \ryere extraordinary. The foreigners and thqre are two more in the works. School, lnc. that had been held in the French Embassy in Phnom Meanwhile back in California the Coast Guard seized Early on in our existence, gave we up the notion Penh had been released. There was no reason to as- a Polish fishing ship on May '17. The ship was 10 miles that the average student wants go to to lots of classes. CONTACT: sume the crew of the Mayaguêz would not have been off the coast and remains in US custody as we go to We've found that most of the people who come to us Multicultural Community High School, lnc. released, though additional days or weeks might have press. This,is believed to be the first such seizure since get simply want some time to things together free of Office: 3207 N. Hackett Avenue been involved. The US action cost some American 1972when the US captured three Soviet vessels off hassles from parents and school social workers (today's Milwaukee, Wisconsin 5321 1 líves and an unknown number of Cambodian lives. Alaska. Cambodian ships were sunk. A Cambodian airport on By Kiisinger's logic we should expect Polish ma- ,14 WtN the mainland was heavily bombed. A Cambodian is- rines in San Francisco by the time you read this.-WlN \ ¿rN 15 rl l2 \ a tF r) ilfi Promonifll)ns l)f '!--a 0ry¡fnl Nighf" Don't placate me. c:;HA Take certain steps with me To re-arrange the disorder. It is cr,umbling from above. MAYDAY CELEBRATEÔ . ley. This unit m recommendations Children's Fund, Box 4432, Berkeley, They arc screaming in Chile: Comrades, don't lets get caught IN URUGUAY for an attack which IRS then followed. Oalifornia 94704; Medical Aid for They are putting their deaths to the test, Under the rubble. DESPITE MASS ARRESTS , Despite exposure of the political Vietnam, 65a Winthrop Street, Cam- Our Brazilian comrades have perished already. origin of the assessment and seizure, bridge, Mass. 021 38; and Mennonitc Get out from under. One hundred UruguaYan fabor a¡$ .and despite the fact that a checking Central Committee, 27 S.21 Street, Don't placate rne. Those who survive will. be those student leaders were rounded up', ar- account of one group was used to assess Akron Pa. 1150'1. Let us organize the resistance Who are not underneath but rested and detained during the last , -LNS outside it: another of similar name, IRS has now Before it's too late. Pushing it over. weeks of April and for the first few I proceeded with announcement that 500 DEMONSTRATORS days in MaY, according to Prensa Pablo Neruda is propertybelonging.foGanpPeace- silenced. His library We have no enemies: news service. ttsqIEfl_"qIPLOMACY Latina, the Cuban makers,'lnc. willbe OF VIOLENCE" Burned. Shall we convene now?. There is only the crumbling structure for Urugqay's labor sold. Spokespersons Members of Gano Peacemakers say Shall we build tunnels under Shea Stadi'um?xx And the People. now saying the arrests were Though by"late aftereqon, May 15, the. unions are that the wholly political origin:t^r*^"" to prevent the large May- , vtuyi!u.r'incident appear'e¿ séttleá Cancel the dances. Start subverting Don't soothe me. conducted attack plus the fraudulen:r oj.t_f_" a day demonstrations that had been 1tr.sy anã lñough the demoästration was put The corruption. lt may be Tell me what you ment itself renders the sale.spurious. only days steps are taking planned. togeiher within 24 hours without the Before they "The IRS has no right t9 round us up. And I will tell you what steps I am taking. Despite the arrests, small street flis¡JoryrtV Uãünt of aformqtcoatirion organiza- and therefore has no way toJt:!:f-ï Itts tíme. lt's too late gatherings place iion, ou.r.500 persons convergõd on Thé government in the Beast's Belly took in Montevideo a righr ro someone. el*,_'_r3i9_u_r_?9t.¡ To suffer, to complain or to wait. throughout the day. Large Mâyday Íimä, sfuãr. tã piá,tárt-,¡,ni.{ri^r, ls vomiting up its poisons. person. "Whoever bids or this plgpîïy demonstrations were also held in iåiiänirt Anrhony Lewis rermed a Don't calm me. This is the time. Only rouse me t" w t' i' ; Ecuador, Columbia, Guyana¡ Peru and t' úl' J ; äi i rãi,j üJ';;'i n' Lå'- To action. Today. Tonight. Ul}l:,i' fl il:t"ru*',f 1,[r ;i;;tî And whoever isn't paranoid Mexico. The largest Mayday celebra- oo!i'roving I will whisper it to you tonight -News o"sL lsn't preparing the escape routes. tion in Latin America this year was in was rhís particula r While we are making love- Venezuala, where 200,000 wgrkers EMERGENCy AID column, that WRL phorosrared ir on It is crumbling from above: ,. And at breakfast we wíll gather took off work to loin a parade through NEEDED lN Vl ETNAM back.of peririons to Senaror Sruart Comrades, get crushed W¡th all lovers . don't in the rubble. our the streets of I . ., r, r Symington, chairman of the Foreign n. Caracas. -LNS Emergency medica,l aid is needed- - :_ &. Those vicious men ín formal suits And we will begin the changes. in Retatiõns óommittee, protest¡ng,;¡Us I Vietnam, and the An"ll"t:f Are panicking. Worry about iÇ friends. IRS POLITICAL ATTACK ,Fri",ndt_ military action in Cam'bodia, wñich t Tonight. Because tomorrow is the end Service Committee (AFSC) is asking It's really time to organize CAUSES PROPERTY SALE,, ;;;;ú iiu"r of óun'U.aa¡¡ of the old civilizarion. that people send aid and also pre¡ure Ãr.iirunr," an¿ ¿emanJ¡ng ;;-""j-" The resistance. Don't calm me. . , On May 14 the lnternal Revenue Ser- congress to lift restrictionr thorough investigation of rtie enrire Don't say, " lt will be all right.', vice posted property government placed llg,Yl a notice of sale on has on sending NliViSù", incideñt and the immediaté j I belonging Gano Peacemakers, They are to lnc. materials to Vietnam. I manipulating oil and armaments us militarv t":' Don't quiet me. I am preparing 20 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dayid stic!¡ey, resrified in I Grain and the fruits of ryho Hi'liäfiflll' our labour And I need to tremble The notice announced sale on May behatf of AFSC, totd rhesenal"- "- j'r,=: For Äriä.äîi.iåf ral,y atwhich Dav.e evil ends. Really. Because this preparation 28 at the Federal Buílding, Cincinnati; ^r-., I It will be too late The property, ,tfl I ls the last we will be allowed. consisting of a house :iFiå;Jtif#'î:iffiiåii#jt,$:i::t:'ff l if we meet in the Stadium and acres, i;ilyl:,"d#ii::l' l1 two was bought by a com- can attention is being siyel gnlv,lo peck Don't silence me. Neruda is silenced iå tt,*, unit.¿ Narions. ljl To sing the lnternational munal group in 1950 and they, in. those who have left Vietnam. . . it. -Jim i As they decimate our voices And the cheaters in the Beast's Belly 1952, deeded ít to a nonprôfit corpoa- should be obvious to all that the need ir Are finally finding LAWTON i each other out. tion, Gano Péacemakers, lnc. Mortgage of the mittions of war ¡ç- .qY ' with gun shots. ri;iiil'ïilä 9FOUND,INNOCENTI! i: was retired in 1960. main in Vietnam ¡, gr.u'rä]jj'wrru Don't feel safe! The assessment by IRS which led Aid is needed for the resettlement On Monday, 12 May,1 975, nàæly rii This is the crisis to the seizure and sale was drawn up of millions of Vietnamese peasants, for four years to the day he was arrestçfl,, ii For which we have waited. ri on a checking account of the Peace- food and medical supplies, for recon- Gary Lawton was found innocent of.' II Why don't we recognize it? maker Movement, a countrywide'group struction of homes and villages, and the ambush slayings of two Riverside

iì with no financial connection with Gano for the detection and defusion of policemen. ,ir It comes disguised as scandal. Peacemakers, lnc. thousands of tons of unexploded Lawton, a Black Community or- It comes as a coup with a game plan. " Origin of the attack by IRS is ex- bombs and mines. ganizer and member of Vietnam It comes as a war in the Sinai. posed on pages222-23 of the repot by . Five organizations have set up funds Veterans Against the Warlwinter if It comes as a crisis and Crystal Night the Senate undergone i Subcommittee on Constitu, and have established channels to de- Soldier Organization, had tional Rights, December 1974. ln a liver emergency assistance to Vietnam. two previous trials which ended in hung t. Follows with the smashing of windows *"Crystol memorandum dated Dece.mber 8,'1971, They are : American Friends Service juries. I Night" is o reference to the events of And the sudden mass arrests and blood ,l 'l the Special Service Staff, secrpt intelli- Committee, 160 N. 15th StreeÇ After deliberating. for three days, the November 1 1, 938"in Germony Phila- when the shoþ On the street. gence announced windows unit operatÍng within lRS, made delphia, Pa. 19102;Clergy and Laity six-man, six-woman iury of all Jewish estoblishments were smàshed prime guilty ti Build tunnels now targets of the Peacemaker Move- Concerned, 235 E. 49th Street, NY, Lawton not on theiq first vote. tl leoving the streets strewn with gloss-and when mass ' ment and its organ, The Peocemaker, NY 10017'(medical aid to releásed Despite the acquittal, Lawton iaid orrests of Jews were mode, Under the Stadium! Malìna -Judith and the organ's editor, Ernest Brom- political prisoners); lnternational that his faith had not been restored in **Shea October 22, 1973 16 WrN Stadium is o large sports arena in New york Clty comporobte to the-Socaor Stad¡um Ìn Santtogo. WIN 17 Ìá I r I the system. "The system is as rank as feminists and as revolutionaries. iust The send delegates from Micronesia and to cooper' and vile as it's ever been," he said, ,,and confererice Lexington, Ky., for refusing " its way into the city despite masStve Ob- is seen as a means of fur- other nations to the UN in attempts to , WOMAN CUB ate with a grand iury investigating the jections by community residents. there is still a double standard of iustice ther developing these politics and stop the 21 plebescite. KICKËD OUT OF lune case. Many other activists also refused Amidst waving PACK one For the rich and one for the pbor.', strengthening the organizing work ln recognition of our true American flags, that identity to cooperate dragnet Lawton's case had gained national ís their with the investi- "Yankee Doodle" whistling and a PBC Twenty-one ongoing pràctice. as world citizens, Pacífic Life Com- gation *The'Guardian cub scouts, in Jessup, Mary- and intgrnational significance as it be- For banner with the traditional coiled land more information, contact: munity wants to raise money to help , were kicked.out of the national +- snake and "Don't Tread on came a symbol of political and policé Socialist/Feminist Group, 1309 N. with the travel expenses of those going Me" scouting organization because their slogan, 50 people then pledged repression in the United States. Demon- Main St., Dayton, Ohio 45405. to the üN. The money must be ralsed- support pack leader was a woman. strations, ANN ARBOR¡TES LYNCH 'to a statement of food rights and mbbilizations, and fund-rais- -News Desk immediately. You can send your .. P1"! 471was disçnfrançhised in ing spread from Southern-California checks.ro RONALD McDONALD grievances. The statement called for March rhe WRL/WTR odce, 33i- because cub scout biiaws re. - across FOR BICENTENNIAL the right of peop le to adequate, un- the US to include Japan and coNFEREN.E FoR 17 East,seartte ùÁösiìã,'uì¿ quire pack leaders to be men, said a " A l.r w polluted food at fair prices and quoted Europe. NUCLEAR FREE pAClFlC know rhar it is for rhe Micronesian The Ann Arbor People's Bicentennial spokevnan for the Boy Scouis of During the course of the trials more (PBC) from Connecticut price-fixing legisla- America. Aprit.l.6the Committee marked the anni- than 50 supporters had been fined, lost (oq'!:':_!::!,:g -wRLiwrR-Nw versary heard róuhd the tion of 1776: "This policy 4roM i8åi'iÑ FARM' of the "shot of having men in feadêr. i or received jail on Mururoo) Committee sponsored an í^iXN,):Jll)'It^ . "The rapid and exorbitant rise upon iobs, sentences because wo R (E R s plnnc^. world" in late April by challenging the ship roles is based on many studies,,' Ìnterno t iona t ro n rrr"rr2tfo":;oÅ:å "' n the necessaries and conveniences of of work around the case, still 70 sup- McDonald's fast food corporation. he said, defending the decísion. nucleor weapons testing in the PacÌfìc. With placards saying '' life. . .is chiefly occassioned ."4 porters showed-up for closing defense "There's.Blood Ronald McDonald was huÍrg in by strong male presence Laurie Raymond (Seattle). & ìm on the. Grapes," and ,rBoycott monopolizers, that great pest of is requires as cub- arguments. The attitude of members J Gailo effigy on a "Liberty Tree" outside.';the master. D.ougloss-(Vonco¿iler, BC) ottended Wine,." som-e 3000 p"rron, society, who prefer their own private -LNS t of the defense committee can be ,"r-"f,"ã ¡n Maynard Street construct¡on site uihere this conference in Fiji. We ore pre- New York from 59th gain to the interest and safety of summed up in the words of one of its Street to ú;iori' has managed their poring the company to muscle members Rusty Bronaugh (who had a special report that will cover square on May 10. The demohstration country. " -LNS/Ann Arbor Sun lost his job, and undergone two trials the Conference for s Nuclear Free climaxed Farm Workers Week, observed Pocifìc, US the by the where charges were dropped for his militarism in Pacifìc United Farm Workers ín 70 and Pacifìc Life Community's localities throu,ghout work on the committee), he said, "The involve- the US and ment Canada. state's attempts to hold back the peo- with Trident ond with our friends in Pacifìc. lüe Some , a ple's struggle against repression did not the hope to have 30 unions supported the New ,t it out soon, However, York marc-h, A and can not succeed. People are fight- one item cannot threat by District Joint e Council ing back and winning!" wait untìl the report ¡s mo¡led-the pos- 16 of the Teamsters to nón- <*-1 sible US take-over (for mititory pur- .cooperate in the fut.ure with unions -Riverside Political Prisoners sup- poses) of Tinion, one of Ñoithern porting the Farm Wôrkers, drew no Defense Committee Marionost;tan$inMìcronesio..the soctAL¡sT/FEM tN |STS OR- ;i:ï:fi,?:'.i,hli'rîTiiiir",|'f:l;ilfi; GANTZE JULY 4 CONFERENCE us miritary rake.over of rinian? |;iffi't;HiîJ:l i,,Åiït#il;":*"t'' Things are moving along. All around the country women aie òr- Today, the biggest issue in Micronesia tingent there. We are now contemplate applying for welfare. The Columbia. . . . .Making and publíshing ganízing able to wake up in the morníng to read people who marched, a wildly mixed poetry to change their lives: women is Military-the us Military wants The effectiveness of the Gallo boy. that will "serve the'advance of a dispatch from Saigon in the groupof young and old, black & white, are beginning childcare'centers, fighting Tinian. The uS has proposed to the cott aiound New york was indicated þaper the second American revolution" is the knowing that in Vietnam thèy call it employed andrunemployed, had come reason q, for abortion, organizing unions, creat- Marianas lslands that the entire island by thefact thatGallo ran full page ads for the existence of the Sniyrna G Ho Chi M¡nh City! lr'll take the to be heard, not to be lectgred to. They ing a new culture. At a national con- of rinian be turned over to the Amer- in the New York rimes a couple ãf Press. One of their most recent anthol- ference American'press a few years to catch were heard, one hopes, by people with on socialist/feminism, )uly 4 ican Military, and a massive military days before the march and, aJain, _ ogies, Three Red Stors is genuinetv a up with what is really happening in similar feelings around the country, 6, hundreds of such women will come facility.be constructe.d there. There couple of after. ln reóeni mônths, refreshing and literate, and they hope .days the world, but it will, it will. lt'll be possibly sparking an idea fgr many, together to discuss this work. are indications that the Department of the Farm workers have been concen- .' to do more. They're looking for sub- planners, forced to. There are rumblings of dis- many such marches around the ' The conference representa- Defense approved that a giant Air trat¡ng on Gailo rather than on grapes coun- missions from people who may be tives of about ten content right here in the United States tly. . . ..Check out your local bookshop i socialist/feminist or- Force and Naval Base be constructed and lettuce. The grape harvest siaris in caught in the bind of being too politi-' I gañizations coming from working people that even for a new book on the writings throughout the country, ex- on the island and that the people would early June. of cal to be accepted by the literary maga-- I the unions handle. lUoody l pect,from 30G600 women partici- can't The recent Guthrie from his days as a to either be,employed at the.base or Themarch ended with a rally at zines and too literate for the politicali I "Morch for Colpmnist pate. The goiil of this Socialist/ moved off the island to relocate later. union Jobs Now" held ín Dee- for the West Coast Com- They want to hear rl square at which spokeipersons fiom writers at ùhê,,./ Cee was as moving and powerful as munist Party Newspaper, Feminist Conference will be not only The us exer.cises joint administra- for a number of unions pledeed their any. The'People's Smyrna Press, Box 841, Stuyvesant :1 demonstration has World. (the to share local experíences and organiz- tion with the uN in Micronesia. How- su2port of the Farm this writer ever at- lt's called "Woody Says" Station, New York, iL wort

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i\ 'i For me, the transformation from Old Left to New Left ! was exceedingly difficult; it was painful and confusing, emo- intolerance. He criticized evervone who rcpeated afagiole settings-that I must, in any case, recommend the book and tionally and.intellectually. I made many discoveries about ano oemuiåàlu't"i *. ãriti"íL ót"ple who told ¡okes affirm the fact thàt I very much enfoyed reacling it. the Old Left, and much of it was ugly. Some of it-like my "r- pããbr' wt o tord anti- Young il (largely -Allen parents' naivete and eventual disillusionment due to Semitic"uoui-r'o'ã'.";;i;,;;;;;;i;riø or anti-black iokes." OF THE WHA EWS the fact that they came to the Farty as workers and union- lf my comins out meant anvthine to lonah on an emo' GROWING UP IN THE OUT OF CONTROL ists, and not as middle-class intellectuals)-was profoundly ! that for AME RICAN LEFT t¡onat iívãi t;;*;; Ë-;;f;h;; ;"ái"í.1 know Dan Gerber / Prentice Hall Inc. / Englewood Cliffs,.Néw sad. For Jonah, the transformation from Old Left to New for'the simple An Autobiography by jonah Raskin Links Books 216 me' the telíine was not äiiJ lïåi ettT Jersey 1974,208 pp. / I Left occurs too easily. lt is somehow not serious. / PP., $4.95 paperback tu"t tt uiâ,i triå"ãrñii,-ttrr."li""iiu' ¡ir àîir''it'' year) remained :' (perhaps Many peopie do not havc long-time fr'iends. For so many Jonah like his parents) wishes, conveniently, to rntact. ln this society sports heroed a¡:e expcctecl to. perf.orm aL a ' I peoplc, friends go, forget about the lies, the violence, the authoritarian manipu- prior. feelings he godlike rate. Woe unto the iock who lets his emotional life I tend to come and so I consider myself Jonah never communicated to me any I lations. He writes get fortunate to have a few people in mv life whose friendship blithely that the "Old Left World. . . had had about ho¡nosexualitv' ar any earlier experiences wltn ín the way. Robots aren't supposed to have foelings. I l retreated. Except for obviously enjoying has lasted for'15 years or more. The author of this autobin- the more mili- gav people. lonur, ãðãiiåtseË; tJu. r*utt of how with' Bearing that in mind¡ former racedriver Dan Gerber has I graphical book is one of those old friends. Both of us have tant and hedonistic aspects of the New Left (guerillas drawn ahd yer, he díd have delved into hìs own sport and come up with a novel that I L sítent he ñ;; b;;;; l"rron. I ' and street-fighting, and sex and dope), does not of strips away the and reveals I to use a well-worn but apt phrase; "gone through many Jonah some.thing to,share t.,th;;.ïh;ãlr-,ìTor,"*ho" ís one sickening machismo a man,ås i schizoid changes" in these 15 years. But something very mçaningful seem to have an appreciation for the Nãw Left as a li'bera- Jonah's best friends from high school. and lost as the rest of us. The protagonist, Roger, political and solid endures. Nevertheless, it is a very strange eipeli- tory response to the failed Old Left. lonah's nos- Tom, writes Jonah, ',was"s stvlish,dre$spr, carried a silver reads T.S. Eliot, drinks stdaight.tequila, has nightmares lhat talgia for the his re-gularly awaken is at the relentlcss l ence for me to be a charàcter in this book (undei the name old Left, initial mistrust of the New Lefr, cigarette case," and pollected'reåords of Billie Holliday, him at 4 am and mercy l Tony Meyer), and a diffìcult task for me to review the book- as disturbing, especially now since much of the energy of : Edith Piaf and iazz mus¡c¡ani. tcni. had aeirlfriend named .. of the Amef ican Dream. I to look as the New Left has been re-channeled (by red diaper bãbiesi) Sandy: "Tom put on bras, and When he's not driving a turbocharger at speeds of up to at it both a friend and as a "critic.,' ' Sandy'l cloth'ing, hãislips, into_Old Left ways of thinking (as and.Sandy 200 miles per hour, Roger's life is in shambles. Thcrc is probably one predominant reason that Jonah in the latest writings bf makeup wore Tôm's.trdusãrs, shiri and tie." The on-track Raskin and I have remained friends for so long. lt is the the Revolutionary Union, the Octobei League,'and, yãs, the One day in Greenwich Villaee. lonah'was with Tom speed is offset by a heavy case of ennui elsewhere, a drifting Weather same reason why I have such warm feelings about much of Underground). I do not doubt forã mínutô'thalit when Tom bought a copy of H"owí. '-nagging.'itrdifference toward a wífe he really doeg not know, and a is my homosèxuality . you fèeling his profesiion, this book. lt is the simple fact that and I have a and my involvement with gay libera. "'What do think of Allen Ginsberg being a homo- that though at the top'of he's Jonah actually defìnite sense of coming from a small, unique, vital com- tion which has proyided me with the experiences and the in- sexual?'he asked. nowhere. While sitting in.a,bar, forlornly listening ' sights crucial to breaking firmly with an Old Left perspective. 1"1 guess it's all iight,' I said. to a jukebox, it occurs to him that "life waS'ã dead-end L rirunity-we are both "red diaper babíes." great street, . We both entered college in the late 1950's, in the waning . - Jonah seems to avoid his feelings often in order to keep "'All the writers were homosexuals-like Oscar a cul de soc that provided no choice but to park your'. years of McCarthyism, aware and usually proud of our his narrative smooth and his characters uncomplicated, Hè Wilde,'Tom said. car and wait it out or to U-turn and regres's." you have But hè go parents' bravery.and commitment. Perhaps we did not know does not, for example, describe the animosity between him- "'Do to be 4 homosexual to be a writer?' I can't back. lt's too late and he knows it. At the end each very much about the Communist Party, or even our parents' self and 'rStella," the w¡fe of his best f¡.iend Peter Gordon. asked. of race he consíders retireme.nt, only the helps."' thought precise relationship to the Party, but we knew that our So Stella, an interesting and complex personality.(and a "'No, but it is mere fantasy, as is his dream of someday owning ,,good politically), Tom later entered a Franciscan a farm with a parents and'other "progressives" believed in cãuses," "liberal" remains faceless. Jonah, quite obvious- monastery. trout stieain running through it. He's lost thò Where is Tom now? lf he were good friend from high capacity to make decisions himself. including workersr rights, racial equality and socialism. We ly, simply does not know her. my for school, I'd want to know. Reasons shared those beliefs and brought them with us in 1958 or Jonah's feelings about me ur a'homos.^ual are similarly why can be found 'in the nature of autoracing is an English professor and wr:iter, with a Gerber tells us. He 1959 to the apoli.tical campus of Columbia University. We excised. I came out to Jonah and hjs wife "Sheila,' some-' ionah Raskin should know, for he himself was once grapples constantly with the possible con' ranked an American .also brought with us a sense of belonging to apersecuted time in '1967;itwas a coming out that lacked the bpne- PhD and all, who driving staf of the future before a ìrear- chosen profession and his revolutionary faial.accident forced minprity; being a red,in the 1950's was sometimes scary frtof gay liberation, though I had reached, by myself, tradictions of his hi¡n to turn to the "subtler hazards of political now lþing in Mexico and is writing.an poetry," and lonely, and we quickly found each other (often benetit oT gay l¡beration, though I had reached, by myself, beliefs. Hg is writing and asrthe liner notes describe. wiih the patriate nóvel- ,ò the point of basic part-time authorized biography of B. Traven, the late ex ln racing the primary product is a million-dollar machine, help of folksy hootenannies where if you knew certain songs self-acceptance and integration " (Treosure the Sierra Madre)-and presumably the same and numerous . it meant something else beyond the music). ln this book, into the "gay qcene." Jonah relates this comirlg gut.in his ist of companies vie for the superior mechanical whirl about in his head' monster. The driver is the guinea pig, Jonah transmits some seìse of this community (though he, chapter about the Columbia strike of 1968, when both of contradictions an insirument of a process of . unlike ine, had ambivalent feelings and sometímes sa* hi.- us spent a lot of time together in the Fayerweather Hall oc- The Jonah's contradiøtory infatuation with 'system in the utter embrace of madness. A quick example- red background as a source of alienation and hassle more cupation "commune": and aljenation frcjm academia is described eloquently, es- after Roger wins a race he is given the obligatory kiss by a than a source of pride). "ln the lobby I loóked for Tony Meyer, my old room- pecially when he tells about the time he was arrested at a titled Miss. This time Miss Pure Oil does ihe honors. Nexr : ln Out of the Whale, lonah tells about his life, about his mate from Central Park West. He had just resigned from the demonstration and brutally beaten up by two New York time he wonders if ¡t might be Miss Lube Job or Miss Emis- , I policemen. early days as a red diaper baby, about the symbolic impor- lilashingto'n Post and loined Liberatioó News Service. ln City But l,think most of us who have broken' sion Control. pasts confronted nowa' tance of the RosenberÊ case, about our attempts to bring September, before he started to work as a reporter and be with structured, careei-oriented are Gone is the romance and excitement. -"After seven that the gglillcs to the Columbia campus at the'begìnriing of the'- fore I started teaching at Stony. Brook, we had bought àays Uy a sense of crisis. Despite his insistence ex' vears it was almost like going to work in à sawmill or an ác' or embarrassing," 1960's, about his.choice of a career as an Ënglisliprofessor, herringbone tweed suits at Halstead's men's ihop, new suits oeíienðe of writing the book was "painful áounting firm, another motel,'another rented car, the same and easy. places as about the Columbia strike and his transformát¡on'from for new professionals, new.images. But after two months, af- ìonah makes his life choices seem too simple olaces every year as if the year were a series of about his marriage and friends and ' political part of the book banter; "Jonaht' to."Jomo," ter ayear in Brazil, he confessed to Sheila and.me that he A theme running through well as a seiies of weeks' The same faces, ihe same her decision to popular.tune you care mother-in-law, and all the transforma--tions from then to was a homosexual, that he had been â homosexual since high focusès on Jonah's wife and-in particular the same nervous yawns' like a didn't go "down now-all with an upbeat message. The concluding words of ' school and throughout college. ln Rio de laneiro, thousands iãin ttre Weather Underground. .lonah refuse-d-to for but couldn't get oqt of your head." the Weather the book promise that Jonah will "be standing íñ the shade of miles away from his friends and parents, he had lived lndrt" with her, but evõn so hií rejection of His wite leaves him for a'còllege friend whose job' is ad- ' ,l is offset of it. of the tree, the tree of life and liberty, with friends, rela- openly for the.first time. ln Fayerweather he was still a Únderground by a curious'romantization vertising lingerie. He's numb, beyond feelirlg any pain;over extent the tions, rnothers,.children, lovers, brothers on the earth, on closet homoselual, but the door was beginning to open, ionah also never makes lt quite clear to what her loss. He's too tired of taking orders from his managerr", lives this land that's our own." and he was starting to emerge from hiding. We sat down ieminist movement has infllenced his life and the of 'too tired of being a plaything in the hands of a sportiqg pub- i There are, of course, red diaper babies who feel indif- together and"he remembered painfully the antifag jokes that his friends lic he loathes, As Woody Allen said in jest-but here is meant people may feel ferent or even hateful toward their pasts. But fOr those of we had made for years. Tony was a red and a fag, an under- Some that writins an autobiography at to be tragic--:wherever he is, he always wants tg be some- (early 30's) I strongly us who are still in some way politicålly-minded, our Old .ground fag in an underground culture, repressed by both tonáh's age is an exercise-in egotism. where else. 'dit^gr"", and feel that make good Left background provides us with an important and vital the old arld the new left. the lives of real people He necessarily depersonalizes other drivers-they are "ob- at any age.. thread to historv. ,"Emma IJonah's mothei-in-law] had always said that reading iects" in the way of a better lap time-and in the end this How we looli at that thread is '"*ñiy'itrongestbbiection not with the very important, and here I fags in the movement were liabilities because they could be to this book rests alienation, together with the accelerator pedal that feels find myself j that ¡t is an autobiogtupt that it is a in disagreement with Jonãh. He has basically blackmailed by the FBl. 'They'll inform on radical friends,' idea u.-h-riâther ',like.a foreign country," takes his life. Symbolically, the romantic view his political with two prrotagonisií_the the politi- of life,-his roots, and tfre peõpie she said, 'rather than be exposed as homosexuals.' rotniln.cê, author and Goodyear blimp floats away from his final race, headed to with whom he has interacted. milieu he is attached to. líttle more Now, I can share that ro "My father was afraid that Adam IJonah's youngest cal My wish is for a next week's "big" spectacle. The system has nó pity. mance up to a point-the emotional both, especi¿llV of criticism surge that comes with a brother] and KurtThomases Ianothèr old friéndl were hav' ¡ealísm-about ' ã- o'|vsevrSr"ut"r '-'sense The a,uthor? He.got out in time and fulfilled Roger's sense of one's role in socialist end self'criticism. history, fõr example_but ing a homosexual relationship; they spent long weekends to- fantasy. He's now.living on a farm in Michigan, is al as- I am involved enough in and all of Jonah's romantization goe_s too far. iÁ tf¡e prorérr, his peo- gether, and Kurt took hundreds of photograpñs of Adam. Jonah and mvself ¡¡s- trononiy buff, a.nd considers himself an exp"ert'in split-rail ple become paper thin and unreal; they eiist characters oT this book-"nO .Wr"i"iiv'i'É. ,urntr and the ontyio fdtfitt Sam IJonah's father] wanted to foreclosðany incipient .fence construction' -stephen Morse his romantic fantasies. Their real feelings and reai lives are homosexuality. He snooped on Adam and Kurt. lost in the process of glorifying a politiðal ffadition. "Tony condemned both Emma and my father for their ?o wtN

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