OBSERVER Vol. 13 No. 15 September 15, 1970

Cover Page Huey P. Newton [Photo] LNS Back Page Rufus The Radical Reptile For Mayor Bill Crawford Page 1 Neal Koblitz A Political Prisoner Frank Montafia College Deficit Of $90,000 Slater Feels Pinch David Schardt Page 2 Letters [“ . . . Lost my wallet in . . . Two Bard students found and turned it over . . .”] William H. Jordan [“Encounter or sensitivity groups were considered to be a passing fad . . .”] Marguerite L. Buccino Access Ad Hoc Weekly Bits of Rumor Concerning Student, Faculty and Administrative Political Machinations, the Old Nixon, Dutchess County and the State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes Jeffrey Raphaelson Page 3 Can A Student At Bard Major In Film? John Katzenbach The Fifth Column What Is Imperialism? Kurt Hill Page 4 Sam Bard Busted Bard Lands A Womb On Strike Brandy French (Daily Cal) Page 5 Those Fabulous Freak Brothers Fat Freddy’s Cat Gilbert Shelton Page 6 Huey On: Hip Culture, Imperialism, Women’s Liberation, Suicide . . . John Bancroft and David Fenton (LNS) Quote From [Photograph] LNS Page 8 It’s The Amazing Newshow Midnight Rambler Michael Harvey Page 9 New Haven Verdict No Surprise Quote From Lonnie McLucas Frank Montafia Page 10 Friends Cool Draft Marguerite Buccino Page 11 Films Huey P. Newton .. . volume 13 number 15 september 15 1970 five cents Slater feeds weil .. .

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• ,•.. ~ r gressive Labor Party (PLP) when drafted, Pvt. Jimmy Dixon, submitted mations to trial, observed that th ere seemed to be Neal maintained his party affiliation after the court ask i ng that the charge be d is­ widespread sympathy among the Gl' 1s for induction. During his basic training at missed since "no offieer can be unpreju­ Neal and the others. Fort Dix he proceeded to organize Gl's diced in trying someone who is attempting around the anti-war issue. He argued that to fight the rich society and especially a This indication of at least interest and the only element of American society to communist." Pvt. Dixon told the presiding awareness of the trial and the issues in­ gain from the war was big business, and military judge that he and Koblitz felt all volved can be interpreted as a success. specifically that Gl's were being killed for officers were "here to harass Gl's by direet Placing the Gl movement in an historieal the benefit of the ruling class capitalists. command or by indirect command. And perspective, it is obvious that there has The brass at Fort Dix, not being receptive we don't teel any offieer has the right to been tremendous growth in the last few sit in judgement for anyone who is fighting years. The importance and effectiveness f}i >•••••••••••••••••• /< / court martial Neal, but decided to transfer for the working man." The trial termina­ of the work being done by Neal and the him to Virginia. ted with the expected guilty verdict. many others like him is evident. Neal and many other observers feel that right now At Fort Eustis, Neal was stationed with Viewing the aetions of Neal and his thereis a coordinated effort being made another PLP member, Steve Wenger. With friends it might seem they are acting un­ by the military to eliminate any dissent. Steve and three other politically sympa­ realistically. They are overtly violating And this trial was just one small part of thetic Gl's he began to actively organize. army regulations and are suffering the con· this repression. Neal Koblitz Distributing PLP literature and other un- sequences without any apparent success. derground Gl oriented publications, Neal What will the trial and its consequences and the others were making enough prog­ mean for Neal personally? Any time On September 11, Pvt. Neal Köblitz, 21, ress to bring the brass down on them. Af- spent in the stockade is considered "bad oldest son of Bard Professor Robert ter placing charges against the five, the time" by the army. That means it does Koblitz, was found guilty by a military brass decided to try them individually. not count as active duty. and Neal's dis­ court martial of "political dissent." One (This is the same tactic being used against charge date will be extended six months. of a group of five Gl activists being tried the Panthers in New Haven.) The brass Life in the stockade is not pleasant, espec· at Fort Eustis, Va., Pvt. Koblitz was selected the youngest and least experienced ially for someone the brass earmarks for sentenced to six months at hard labor in of the five to go to trial first and proceeded On the surface this may seem not to be special treatment with hard labor. There the stockade. The charges stern from the to convict him. The remaining four, real­ very practical. But when examined in a will be a lot of petty harrassment which specitic acts of distributing pro-communist izing they could not be treated fairly under larger context, these aetions are directed could easily extend to physical punish­ and anti-military literature without per- military justice, refused legal aid and deci- and coordinated in a program the success­ ment. Also it would seem the isolation mission on the post. ded to expieit the case for as much politi­ es of which only time will reveaL could eliminate Neal's political effective­ cal valueas possible. ness. But Neal plans to continue organ­ Neal is a Harvard graduate and was assoc­ Neal is operating from a very defined and izing in the stockade, where he says the iated with SDS during the 1968 strike at Neal's trial proceeded with characteristic disciplined party ideology. The reasan he most disaffected Gl's are to be found. the Cambridge campus. He was attending military expediency. Neal, who rejected did not try to evade the draft was to be graduate school at Princeton when he was the services of his court-appointed attor- able to organize within the army. Mrs. drafted last May. A member of the Pro- ney in favor of representation by a layman · Koblitz, Neal's mother, who attended the Frank Mantafia

COLLEGE DEFICIT Slater feels pinch OF $90,000 The Bard community is absorbing, for the moment, a hike in the New York State President Reamer Klinetold students in Regarding the future building programs, minimum wage and the spiralling cost of Sottery Hall Monday night that Bard Kline promised eventual construction of food by paying higher prices in the coffee College ran $90,000 in debt last year. He the Modular Dormitories, contingent on shop. Joe Roberts, Director of Food Ser­ had called the meeting, which was sparsa­ the sale of the bond issue that will finance vice, decided to place the burden on the ly attended, to go over with students a them (see artide on this in last issue). students and faculty who do not have number of subjects affecting the college. However, he pointed out that the broker regular food contracts rather than raising Along with bad news, however, Kline who had taken on these bonds last spring board tees. But this immediate $18,000 also brought good news regarding the had almost gone broke trying to sell them. pay raise for Slater employees and the 6% ~ollege's plans for the future. These in· Regarding the future of Stone Row, Kline jump in the cost of living last year may elude the new Dining Commons, renova­ pointed out that the cost of renovation of not be met completely by the coffee shop, tion of Stone Row and a major fund drive those venerable buildings exceeds the cost and could necessitate a boost in board which will have as one of its goals the of .building entirely new structures of fees sometime this school year. building of a large addition to the Library. similar capacity. The 560 resident students each pay $500 Kline opened the meeting with a recitation The new Dining Commons, being built a year for the food plan, less than most of the college's financial status. He point­ now with the aid of the largest single gift schools with comparable menus. Of the ed out that for the last decade the college the college has ever received, will be going approximately $190,000 in revenue last has run on the brink of deficit, but has before the Student Senate for detail mod­ term Slater cleared only a 2.6% profit managed to come out in the black in most ification soon. Dr. Kl ine added that the (less than $5,000) --- compared with an of the past years. He cited several reasons old Dining Commons, offidaily called acceptable 3% and an expected 5%. Prestan Hall, will have its future decided for last year's huge deficit. First among In the question period that followed his these"is higher costs, with its related need by the Long Range Planning Committee. address Kl ine answered inquiries regarding J?e reasons that the contr~ct-people _h~ve of higher salaries for college employees. F1.l m, t h e Long nnange Pl annmg· e omm1't - e1ght hours a day to come. mto the dmmg The college has had a policy of increasing Other building plans that Dr. Kline re­ tee, and the future of Bard's tuition. He commons _to eat and drmk all th~y want, faculty saleries by 9% per year on the vealed will depend upon a major new fund re1·t era t e d h'IS Wl·11· mgness t o a b"d1 e b y the and that. smce . the coffee shop pnces have average and has had to match this with a raising drive the college will be undertaking . . . not nsen m four years, the non-contract dec1s1on of the student faculty committee t d t d f It h Id f 11 h concurrent 5% average raise per year for in the near future. These plans include on film However he emphasized that s.~ en 5 an acu_ Y s ou ma Y s are the college's other employees. Another the building of the Library addition as · ·d t.' Id h t b nsmg costs. Profits from coffee and soda t h e recommen a 1ons wou ave o e - · k' d factor that has affected. the college's fin­ weil as expansion of the present facilities . . , . pay for the labor mvolved m ma mg san - ancial status is the drop-off in gifts and. of Procter Art Center and the Theatre. rehasotnablef, Cfltmdg the college s chromc wiches and hamburgers in the coffee shop. s or age o un s. grants due to both the bad economic sit­ Continuing his coverage of new academic uation in the country and recent tax re­ possibilities Kline pledged his support to The food service has compiled a history of Regarding the Long Range Planning Com­ Bard student eating habits to aid in the froms that serve to discourage such gifts the future of film at Bard and announced mittee, Kline answered that the Commit­ or grants. preparation of meals. They know that an the formation of a student-faculty com­ tee had been dormant for a year but that average of 65% of the el igible deeide to mittee to review and make suggestions · it would be sorely needed in any decis­ After this Klinewent on to praise the new eat at any given meal. Last week 76% of regarding the future of a film department. ions regardinq th,: future of Prestan Hall. faculty as a "fine group of people" and to the annointed did and Slater technically He also said that he would support the He noted that mc..1y departments had welcome Tim Sullivan, the new Director lost money. recommendations of that committee if plans for the space and that he would not of Admissions, to Bard. they were "within reason." want to have to make any decisions with­ An ideal break-up of the student dollar out the advice of all segments of the com­ Regarding the lnner College, Kl ine re­ shows: 44 cents for food, 38 cents for Öther programs that are coming up are the munity. He went on in a jocular tashion labor, 15 cents for other supp Ii es, and 3 emphasized his support of the concept, University Without Walls, a program of pledging to do "everything I can for it," to say that any decision would be unpop­ cents profit. Last week an average meal extracurricular and off-campus study, and ular with so many vying for the space and cost 59 cents and Slater lost 10 cents on while also re-emphasizing the possibilities an environmental biology program for for its members to "goof-off." that he would not want to have to take each dollar. which the college has arranged a grant. the blame for it alone. to page ten 2

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Dear Sir, Encounter or sensitivity groups were con" Weekly bits of rumor coneerning student, but I had already lived in all of them at sidered to be a. passi ng fad by many people faculty and administrative political mach­ one time or another. On September I 1, lost my wallet in-the in a generally suspicious and uptight inations, the Old Nixon, Dutchess Coun­ Caldor Shopping Center. American public, but the human potential ty and the State of Tennessee vs. John For two months, then, lled the quasi movement has instead grown in scope. Thomas Scopes. monastic life of a television repairman, I understand two Bard College students The experience and insight Into living going to summer school and studying found and turned it over toastore keeper. gained in a weil run sensitivity training by Jeffrey Raphaelson Horatio Alger and the McGuffy Readers They did not leave their names. . group will not fail to become a valuable in my spare time. part of a person's total personality. Right The wallet contained a sum of money and now there doesn't seem to be a bona fide Ouietly content with my fate for these very important papers. The papers were sensitivity group on the Bard campus, (Mr. Raphaelson, former. President of the two months, there was stiil a yearnfng my chief concern. and I, having had some experience in sllch Student Association (1969-70), last se­ for adventure, a need to experience some­ encounters, would like to form one with mester was a contributi[lg editor of the thing different. I was rewarded when I I would like to thank the two unknown the aid of other Bard students. lf anyone defunct S.C.A.R.E. publication "AD went outside to cut th~ lawn. Across students for their honesty. You hear so would like to help me locate HOC: An lndependerit Journal of Rumor the street, a bald headed man was trim­ much about college students today. They a psycholo­ gist or psychiatrist that would and Opinion." Stiil a member of ming his quarter acre with a leather up­ certainly are not all alike. I understand lead a S.C.A.R.E., he is writing a Senior Project holstered 2% horsepower monster it was for the good of the college. I T- group and then generally assist me in that putting the and resting quietly in Albee Hall.) allowed him to reduce the height of the wish them luck and may God bless them. works together, I would appreciate it if they contact - Marguerite grass on his land in seventeen minutes "Satori in Syracuse, or There Never Was flat, if he didn't stop to rest in the Sincerely yours, Buccino at Bl ithewood i n Room 224. mid­ · An Old Bard" dle, which on this day, he d id. When Willi am H. Jordan In friendship, he saw me pushing my old Briggs and Marguerite L. Buccino Stratton out of the garage he stopped Mummy and Daddy, having moved to what he was doing and ambled over to Syraci.Jse a year ago, suggested that, my · my side of the street, chuckling quietly finances being what they were, I spend over the sorry state of my machine and the summer with them in that great sump extolling the virtue of his tank turned pump of New York State. Th ere are,. of course, worse places to spend a summer, to page 7 ean a student at llard 3 • • Bard is an institution built around a group of individuals expressing their selves saying maJor 1n FILM? through different media the same thing, "myself." This is what I do, think and feel. This institution forms itself around him/her, facilitates acts of self-reflection; assists him on his own way, gl"!osis. prospec- Last year the importance of a film study Balloon for the exclusive use of and doing their senior projects in film. Many think that Bard cannot financially of loca­ department was brought to the attention tive film makers. So the question To their queries they have met with con­ establish a "first-rate", substantial film of the student body and administration tion was salved, a week after school had siderable rejection. Like so many flying department. This is a talsehood if one through the combined efforts of Richard begun. What remarns, however, was the Dutchmen, students have been condemned means a film department which is going Cohen, Jon Rubin, and several others. legitimacy' of student work in films. It to float in a never-never land between de­ to attempt to inspire an essential feeling Through perserverence they established has been seen last year thatthereis con- partments and administration, with nothing for film, which would enable one to ex­ the film club as one of the mare involved siderable work done in film, and that the made concrete except the fact that the press oneself through the media as an art groups on campus, as weil as setting up a · time expended by the individuals equaled department that doesn't exist is offering form. Rather, this attitude is based on film course which was attended by 70 that of any other single cQurse. The probl- two of the finest film courses on the East the standards and values of The Big Uni­ that his students. By the end of the semester stu- em then arises for the individual Coast. versity Art School; which is amazingly of aca- dents were under the impressian that time cannot be expressed in terms insensitive to and abstracted by its other Bard, in its traditional role as an innova- demic achievement, as it is in the In usual cases of this sort at Bard, the technology from the true nature of film. courses. tive, experimental college, would create art question is simply one of money. Yet the Film as an art need not involve elaborate a film department. To the minds of many, film courses have acquired adequate equip­ facilities or an intensive optics course. being, in their To solve this problem a joint faculty­ this was imperative, film ment, and facilities to achieve their de­ Bard has near-adequate equip­ a field of study as student committee has been set up, to Presently, estimation, as worthy sired aims. Other times, the hassle is one and space to enable many serious any of the arts. review the whole situation. However the ment of qualified instructors, yet again, that is and project their inner committee is yet to be formed. What is students to study not a consideration here. Neither is there design through film. Hence there exists the fall, the whole ques­ strange, though, is the fact that no one However, come any indication of a lack of student interest, why one couldn't moderate has been debates the importance of film at Bard. no reason tion of the status of film at Bard far from it. a real, "first rate" film a department To all, both faculty, students and admini­ this spring into raised again. At this point department here. has not been established, and up until stration, it is obvious that Bard is an ideal So the fight for a film department remains good people because Monday night there was not even a·loca­ place for the study and making of film. Bard has lost many at Bard, as we go into the second week of attitude and reaction tion set aside for the prospective film stu­ And no one debates the fact that film of a camplaeent the semester. One can only hope that this taken by some faculty coneerning film, dents to work. In the face of this adver­ has taken over a considerable part of the problem, uniike so many others, is not al- people and the community is missing the exper­ sity many of the mare qualified film ma­ attEmtion of the artisticafly minded lowed to last until mid-terms or beyond. kers left Bard. Yet the problem stiil in the United States. The problem seems ience of film as a full "course of study." remains one that etteets many new and to center around what role Bard should George Carl Ball Jr. old students. have in this. James R. Jennings John Katzenbach

merly served as sim ple financial inter through m ilitary aid, fi~ancial aid, mediaries, are themselves transformed "development experts, . e_tc. How­ into financial monopolies, perpetually ever, if genuine l.eaders an_se, leader~ seeking profitable areas in which to who are respons1ve to t~e1r peoples cap··tal needs rather than the needs of Amer- · t th·1s 1 · . . . · t. n mves ican dom mat1on, d1rect mterven 10 by im perialist troops is assured. t~at the 1n order to solve these problem s--" The Vietnam War is not an accident. Nor is it an ac:cident Such was the case of Guatemala in Green Berets and the CIA are at work throughout Latm Amenca, ~e­ sources of raw inaterials and labor for the industries,and areas of in­ 1954. President Arbenz was over­ fending the capitalist regimes of pres~d~nts and dictators. The l:Jmted coup, vestment for the financial oligärch• thrown by a CIA eng_i_neered States is an i.J:rt...PJ!d.~.ti.~! nation, and th1s IS the key to understandmg the because his modest agrarian reform ies --- a new type of imperialism be­ nightmare of U. S. foreign policy. program would have threatenend gan to develop around the turn of unused United Fruit Company plan­ What is Imperialism ? minimal, and the colonial economy the century. Under theolder form tation land. Or, one could take the was regulated in such a manner that of imperialism, exploitation was the benefits of industrialization were example of the Dominican Republic Imperialism ca n be defined as a centered in the working class of the exclusive property of the mother in 1965. Juan Bosch, the left-liberal politico-econöm ic policy, by which the developing capitalist nation, and country. Political rule by the.imper- president of the Republic was over­ one state forcibly maintains its capital investmentwas likewise a ialist power in the period of cap­ thrown by an American-backed coup dom inance over another people, ph enam eno n of thE: mothercountry. was much mare in 1963. In April of 1965, a pro­ and econ­ italist ascendency, Under the new form, the native holding !bem_in political Bosch, pro-Constitution rebellion transparent than im perialist rule to­ population of the colony was am ic su bservience for the benefit of To prevent the "virtual day: 'the mother country assumed brought into the labor force, while occurred. the oppressor nation. collapse" of these loyal "leaders," direet political and economic control capital investment began to becom e via the colonial ad­ American Marines were dispatched In the modern i.e. bourgeois sense, of the colonies a phenomenon within the under­ ministration. A degree of local auto­ to rastore the politico-econom ic this politico-econom ic dom ination developed colony on a grand scale nomy was granted, however, as long status quo. can be divided into two basic per­ for the first tim e. as it d id not interfere with the econ­ iods: the imperialism of capitalist Qm ic predom inance of the im perial Seen in this light, American military ascendancy, and the imperialism of Imperialism in Perspective power. policy begins to make sense. To the capitalist decline. Keeping this historieal perspective American bourgeosie, "free world" the United States, it it is relatively easy to grasp means an area in which imperialism Imperialism of Capitalist Ascendency In the case of in mind, took a social revolution to destroy the present problems of the Third has a free hand to expiait the re­ sources and labor force. Thus, wars ascen­ the economic strait jacket of Mercan­ World countries. Although they The imperialism of capitalist of national liberatian such as Cuba of exploi­ tilism, before th is country cou Id take have achieved formai political "in­ dency produced a system conducted, or such liberatian wars which one its place among the developing cap­ dependence" th ey · often suffer from tation and political rule presently being conducted by the "classic colonialism ." italist nations of the world. "neo-colonialism", a political com­ m ight term lndochinese peoples, area direet the devel­ panent of imperialism during the It was a system by which threat to American hegemony in capitalist nations, notably lmperh.lism of Capitalist Deelina period of capitalist d eel ine. U nder oping those areas. For if the Asian revolu­ colonial em­ such a system, the imperial power Great Britain, acquired tionaries succeed in their struggle for pires as markets for the sur.plus in­ The state of free competition which rules in absentia through local national self-determination, the re­ produced, and as characterized the earliest period of "leaders" rather than appointed gov­ dustrial goods sources and labor forees of their re­ materials for indus­ capitalist development, was gradually ernors:· The Third World countries sources of raw nations will be used to bene­ superseded by the growing concen­ are also stiil dom inated by econam ic spective trial production. and not to tration (centralization) of capital in imperialism, an imperialism which fit their own peoples, peekets of the American fewer and fewer hands. As this con­ controis the sources of raw materials li n e the system with the England's Mercantile centration of wealth continued needed for industrial development, rich. isa prime exam­ American colonies, through the formation of trusts, as weil as the capital neeessarv to of im perial system. ination ple of th is type monopolies, and cartels, fewer and make this potential wealth a reality. As revaJutions for self-determ During this period, the mother fewer areas rem ained open for prof­ and socialism continue in the Third in­ begin to cou ntry was the focus of capital itabi e investment in the advanced in­ As long as these native "leaders" World, the imperialists will by vestment, and the economic exploi­ dustrial nations. The gigantic indus­ continue to make the "right decis­ encou nter growing resistance ad­ tation of labor was concentrated in · trial enterprises now needed even ions" i.e., decisions favorable to their "own" proletariet in the During the homeland, rather than in the larger quantities of raw materials to American imperialism U.S. control vanced industrial countries. ascendency, subordinate colonial territories. F in­ meet the demands of their businesses. is maintained in an indirect manner-- ' the period of capitalist ancial investment in the colonies was The banking institutions, wh ich for· to pageteo 4

Some new and continuing projects want to work hard to help make oriented towards a mare together arrangements for Bard women to community with better environmen­ obtain birth control devices and in­ tal relations: formation from neighborhood doc­ tors. The free store - a means of redis­ tributing disused belongings to lessen There will be a natural history club waste and consumerism. Located in with films, speakers, and weekly Potter basement --- always open. nature walks open to all.. The club, Please bring things that you no lo·n­ will also maintain and expand the ger need, especially books and clo­ environment information cabinet, thing. Salvage good things people located in the Biology Department have thrown away. Help by setting hall on the top floor of Hegeman. up ealleetian car.tons on your dorm People are welcome to browse or do floor, and bringing them in when research in th is ealleetian of books, full --- contact Ruth H irsch via cam­ pamphlets, clippings and reprints, pus mail. as long as the material isn't removed from this location. Donations of • Natural foods cooperative in South environmental literature, and also Hoffman basement will be open in used manila envelopes and file-fold­ about a week. Billy Steinberg is ers would be appreciated --- send to ordering from Walnut Acres, a farm Box 24 campus mail or put them in in Pennsylvania with an excellent the bottom part of the cabinet. reputation for organic methods, and really good food. To become a co­ Watch the earth bu lletin board at op member, give him two dollars, foot of the stairs on main floor of wh ich will entitle you toa discount Hegeman for further news of these in the store. Food will be in bulk. projects, other activist information Used jars, bags, and cans are needed news of important ecolagieal event;, for packaging --- no "~isposables." and a running calendar of natural fall happen ings in the wood s and Susan Harris need s som e people who fields nearby. Erik Kiviat

a ·womb on strike sam· bard busted I lay my head on your lap DoctorSamuel Bard (1742-1821), have taken me unto their rooms, & gen­ My hair covers your thighs granfather of John Bard the founder of erously furnished me with money, untiil like a blanket St. Stephen's College, was one of the I can hear from Mr Neat [a commercial looking upside down most renowned physicians of colonial agent in London with whom he was ne­ I see a smile on your torehead days, one of 'the most important hatf­ gotiating at the time regarding a ship­ The breeze blows over my breasts dazen nam es of those on th is side of the ment of books to the King's College Library in New York] to whom I have I examine your knuckles with my teeth Atlantic who in the 18th and early 19th My foot is tucked inside your hand centuries united their intellectual life wrote for credit & security to go into the Country, & I do not Doubt but that like an eskimo pie with public service. The air is gray Here at age nineteen he was appre­ from the generosity with which he has hended on his way to study medicine treated the two above mentioned gentle­ The grass is wet abroad by the French who were battling men, .I shall receive it by the return of We pass a cigarette back and forth England. He was released after five the Post; I have likewise wrote to Dr like a communion wafer months. Franklin, to desire his interest in pro­ and while they are invading Cambodia cureing my release, & to beg him to re­ you are invading me commend me to Mr Neat, that I may the deeper, deeper more readily receive his assistance. [Ben­ November 28, 1761 sixty miles Bayone eastle jarllin Franklin wrote to the French gov­ ernment in vain.] across continents I am a vast battlefield of love Hon. Sir The uneasiness that this accident one of your bayonet casualties wounded with sons When I set out from New York I must naturally ~ive you, I assure you thought of nothing but the advantages I affects me mare than the misfortune it­ Suddenly! should reap & the Pleasures. I should en­ self; it is true confinement is verry Dis­ (lstand up quickly) joy in London; but I had not been long agreable; but then l,have the Satisfaction you have the look of a president about you at sea before I was convinced by a verry toassure you, that the Castle is at present (pregnancy tricki es down · . Disagreable accident, how vain it was . very healthy, that the Victuals are good into the nostrils of the earth) for me to make any resolutions, for on in their kind, & that we have a large my love, my loverl that Day, three Weeks after I left New Cour:t allow'd us to walk in; as Capt screaming Waddell has wrote fully about Mi ss De York, (being the 2nd of November,) we I ike a hairless bitch in labor Visme [Betsy De Visme, a girl Samuel unfortunately fell into the Hands of the my lovel Enimy, & on the 24th we arrivec:fat 'St. met on the ship and finally sailed to Jean De Lus, a small town on the Coast England with.] & as I am in a great caught and torn of France, from whence ·I was carried to Hurry for fear of Missing this opJ)ertunity I ike fistfuls of flowers Bayone Castle. which is by a ransomer, I only Desire to I (forgive me) be remembered kindiy to all my Friends, cannot carry (forgive me) My Misfortune indeed would have & Promissing to write by the Next Post, death been very grevious,.had I not had the subscribe myself death good fortune to meet with Capt Waddell your Dutifull & Obedient San death from New York, & Capt Falconer from death Phyladelphia, my tellow Prisoners, who Samuel Bard your warriors inside my body --Brandy French (Daily Cal) · .~. .. 6 • HUEYON • hip culture, imperia LNS: Oo you think there's a revolutionary New Haven, Con n. ( LNS)-----­ potential for youth culture, or do you The following interview was con­ think that it is a kind of sidetrack ? ducted by John Bancroft and David Fenton of Liberatian News HUEY: Weil, I think that the drug cul­ ture and the 'dr op-out movement is in a Service on August 21 in New Ha­ stage. I think that the youth "Vou see, I look upon this whole thing as like, the oppressor i: transitional 1 yen. Huey had just spent the day will drop out and then they'll start drop­ people's time. To me, that's what it simply boils down to, bec rn court; he watched the close of ping in again after they see they can't other things that I would like to be doing. But you're being ir the Lonnie McLucas trial and met find any peace by separating. I think and you know that you can'y do your thing, because if you dc with Bobby Seal e for the' first time that the youth movement at th is time is tion to what's going on around you, you may be sitting under in three years. Charles Garry another manifestation of the separatist some poems and smoking a joint and talking to your other hal Huey's lawyer, was also prese~t. idea that many black nationalists preach­ ed just a few years ago. The youth drug pigs will come ~Y and drag you to the gas chamber or shoot yc culture isanother manifestation of this-­ your head. So you have to get up from beneath that tree, rem what you want to do is get back to that tree just as soon as yo ************************* you know, Iike "we'll get out of the whole thing." and so Iike, get up and sober up and come down off your trip But we're starting to find out that we the pig, and then you can talk about going back to do your th f.CI.D.:! separate, because imperialism won't LNS: There's so many trials coming up allow us to separate. Imperialism won't in September-- the trial, the Eldridge CleavE all ow developing countries some 10 or rest of the New Haven cases-- and you go 15,000 miles away to live in peace, and to court for a setting for a trial date. I they're al ready separated evenon a geo­ wonder how you think we should relate graphic level. lf imperialism won't let to so many trials at one time ? those countries be free 15,000 miles away it surely won't let a group of people HUEY: lt's going to become mare and right here in North America separate. more difficult to relate to the court sys­ We won't find any saivatian until we tem and the trials at all. I think that are rid of the small ruling clique within right now we're ata turning point and this country. Then there won't be any that in the very near future we won't need to separate at all anyway-- matter need to have that type of educational of fact the whole concept of nationalism thing-- it will be on a higher level. And will be settled. what level that is I think the people will Right now the decide. I think that the Marin court­ supportsall nationalist wars of indepen­ house event, a co lossai event, was some dence, because we feel that these coun­ indication of what might happen in the tries haven't exploited anyone, and they future. are nationalistic on a self-defense basis. They have a right to independence. But LNS: On a recent radio broadcast, you we view them as no more than liberated spoke about the New World Liberatian territcry or a base to operate from in or­ is Front. Could you expiain what this der to destroy imperialism. all about? After imperialism is destroyed, then HUEY: The New World Liberatian Front there won't be any need for nationalism, will really be a new International. It will so we won't support it. At this point we be a coalition of many groups withinthis take a stand that we think that blacks country-- many ethnic groups. The Black with in this country have a moral right to Panther Party will be. a caucus with in a separate. The revolutionary nationalist broader front. The NWL F will represent idea isa moral thing. After so many all struggling people throughout the world. years of abuse we have a right to do this. Actually, it's already been launched On the other hand I feel, the Party feels, through the conterenee that was held in that history has bestowed an obligation Korea. upon us. And that obligation is to trans­ form the whole society, as a matter of LNS: The one that's going on right now ? fact, the whole world. Because if this society is moved, then HUEY: Yes, so we have high hopes that the whole world will be transformed. this will be a structure that will be able to While we have a moral right I don't think construct a viable revolutionary move­ the political strategy is correct. Because ment. if we don't serveas the vanguard in this transformation, then someone else will. LNS: This is actually going to be a formai So the Party accepts this role as the van­ kind of group, one that you think is going guard-- not with any arrogance, but we to encompass all different kinds of revo­ teel that history has bestowed this task lutionary people in the United States ? upon us. In many ways, it's a natural Is it going to be a formai organization ? thing that Black Americans are the van­ guard of the revolution. Because our his­ HUEY: Oh, yes. Right. lt's already be­ tory was destroyed. We were kidnapped ing structured. In a few more weeks-- our from the Mother Country, brought here, embassy opens in Algiers in two weeks-­ and our national attitude was destroyed violence-- running away through drugs, We expect to b l'm going to try and go for that. I don't by slavery . . and so forth-- but when they come back or whatever. But know if they'll renew my passport. But The people are looking for salvation not they'll come back very serious, and come this, becaus there's no restrictions on me. There's no from the past really but always to the fu­ they'll see that the only solution is to put the war on tri legal reason for them not renewing it. But ture. So we're progressiva by necessity-- a transform what's here and they can't go Vietnamese are re right after that we can deal with putting very pragmatic people. You're less likely anywhere else. the second questi' the New World Liberatian Front together. to have ethnocentrism when your history has the right to m Because we will have a center for it. has been destroyed. So we end up beinga LNS: Can you teil us about the plans to has been declared very dynamic people. We end up being a send people to fight in Vietnam ? have to be answer 1 LNS: What would you say has changed people that's been dispersed all over the And also, this col most from when you got into jail till when world, so therefor we're international by HUEY: We kind of put the cart before sendi ng troops-- tl you got out? our very heritage. Because we're not hung the horse, or something Iike that-- be­ troops fighting in up on this national chauvinism, not really cause after making the statemant to the Army before the HUEY: The consciousness of the people historically, because after the break, by presswesent the document to the PRG 11-- there's preced has really increased. People generally are slavery again, it's only natural that we'll be (Provisional Revolutionary Government will we send troo1 much more aware. The younger kids-­ internationalist and it will be easier for us of South Vietnam), to the Paris peace send troops to an· high school kids-- I think they are nearly to give up those chauvinistic ideas of na­ talks, one to the National Liberatian are fighting imper the most revolutionary class at this time. tionalism. Front, and one to the North Vietnamese Our first group lt's really impressive beeause I can see the government.. We'r-e nowwaiting for a 30 to 50 men. It difference between, say, just 33 mon th s LNS: About the NWLF, do you think reply. We are willing to commit troops. thing on the battl ago and now. I probably can see it clearer that people from that drop-out culture, We offer troops to the Vietnamese peo­ our buddieswill e than somebody who's been out. Because as they become revolutionaries as you ple in the spirit of revolutionary solida­ us against the COVI when I was out I knew what was happen­ described, are they going to be a part of rity and internationalism. On one level, sors, you see. An ing, and then I was absent, and now, sud­ this NWLF; do you conceive of that 7 it's a friendship gesture. On another whole relationshil denly, I can see the big leap-- which wasn't level, it's a very real act, a very political will change tbe wl a leap, really; perhaps you saw the transfor­ HUEY: Yes, I think they'll drop back in act in the sense that it will go to the very country. Certainl mation as a very gradual thing-- but it and when they drop back in they'll be foundations, strike at the very roots of namese how we fE seemed to me like one giant leap forward, very political. Because then they will the war. show that the con you know. have experienced everything short of 7 •m, women 's liberation, suicide ... ~rou~h negotiations. It could be a.turn- ple from reaching the revolutionary . mg_ pomt where the whole American revo­ goals, by setting up certain obstacles. CHARLES GARRY: Huey, why don't l~tlon, the whole world revolution will be · That's why we have certain programs in you teil them something about the dif­ k1cked off from that point. I think it has the community that are apparently reform ference between and these po~sibilities. Of course, l'm only but in fact are not. reactionary suicide. speculatmg. I only know it will be a col­ Now as far as Marin is concerned, and HUEY: That's a whole thing-- weil, the 1 the ' ossal ~vent if the troops are accepted. all action by the people-- the people have There s been a certain arnount of feedback to perform these things. All we can do is first thing is that I have a book coming ~re are out-- it's supposed to be out January 1-­ with, after last week when we made the offer set an example or educate the people a~d all of it has been very favorable. The either by illustrations or by lectures or by it's going to be ealfed revolutionary sui­ atten­ cide. lt's going to be a combination of !ading V1et~amese at the various embassies are whatever way we can get through to the o~erJoyed at this offer. But of course it people. But the final task will be the peo­ autobiography and Panther ideology. ~me Wlll have to go to the very top for a decision ple bearing the burden in changing things. Those two concepts will be handfed in the ck to be made. We're waiting now to see what So we ~an talk about all of those things book-- revolutionary suicide versus reac­ g that that will be. with immunity, because we know that we tionary suicide. And l'm going to con­ ly can, can't do them anyway. We're probably tend in the book that at this point in his­ with LNS: Today was the first day that you'd the most focused upon party in America tory that the people in general and blacks seen Bobby for almost three years. at this time-- by the wrong people, the in particular have little alternative. We can choose between revolutionary suicide and Could you teil us what that was I ike? FBI, the CIA, and so forth--and so we can't indulge in those things. But the reactionary suicide. What I mean by reac­ HUEY: Weil, it's hard for me to express people will follow that example. And I tionary suicide is suicide that's caused by it in words. It was a very beautiful ex­ think they will. I think that the Marin a reactionary set of conditions. When a perience-- which falls short of telling you incident has a definite relationship to corrupt regime strips a man of all dignity exactly. things that have been happening in Latin and erushes his spirit he kills himself. This America and so forth. So I think world is reactionary suicide. lfhe does nothing revolution now isa reality, and that the he gets killed by that reactionary set of struggle is just intensifying. conditions. lt's a spiritual kind of death. This is suicide in as much as he's doing LNS: What kind of reaction did you get nothing to stop it. And l'm contending to your letter to the Party about Gay that he has an abiigatian topreserve him­ Liberatian and Women's Liberation ? self, so it's suicide if he doesn't. On the other hand I think that we all HUEY: They were very happy that this have to realize that the enemy that we're should come from the Party, out of all fighting is very strong, very powerful, and people-- people seem to be very surprised. our individual chances of surviving are very siim. So when we take action, when LNS: Who was that? we take our destiny in our own hands and try to change those reactionary conditions HUEY: The women's liberatian people. by going in a head-on conflict with those They were very happy that the Party was forces, then this is edging on suicide. I attempting to relate to them. Within our call it revolutionary suicide because there's party we're not completely rid of male a small chanee that we'll actually succeed, chauvinism (laughter). I think that we're I mean individually succeed. We know trying, we're making an hanest effort. !t}2l!b~.J2!LOJ?J.i!_wJil!LV~Il!!!.'!!.tii'~8ut Women in our party can participate at any as far as each of us we have no guarantee level in the party. We're constantly fight­ that we will succeed. Andmatter of fact ing those bourgeois attitudes of male I believe that our chances are so slight that chauvinism. We are advancing, we try to we can call this revolutionary suicide. Be­ keep our ranks open-- there are women cause it's a freedom of choice, and that ministers in the party. All women are we're taking action to .li~. really, and to trained, just as the men, with the revolu­ change those conditions that are about to tionary tool. At every level I think that kill us. These are the two concepts that I the women should be included. plan to go into. I plan to do a thorough examination of LNS: How do you react to other black suicide, starting with Durkheim and going groups that object to women's liberatian through with Dr. Herbert Hendon who on the grounds that it interferes with the just wrote a book ealfed Black Suicide. He self-assertion of the black male ? He contends in the book that just in the last ten years blacks between the ages of HUEY: Weil I think that if we went along 19 and 35 have a suicide rate that super­ with that we'd be going along with the qld cedes the white suicide rate. This is the values and we would be adhering to the old first time this has happened. Of course situation-- which we are trying to break this is reactionary suicide, only he doesn't away from. This would be freedom for make this d_ichotom~ between reactionary people you see. I think it woUidbeback­ and revolut1onary su1cide. And he makes wards to try to ~JlQ_ male chauvinism at a distinction between why blacks commit this point. lt's not really true, but if the s~icide, and why other people commit sui­ women in our ethnic group appear to have crde. Why whites commit suicide. Because some objective superiority, being the head ln~ian-American suicide is the highest in of families and so forth, it's a thing that we th1s country. Blacks commit suicide time for treason LNS: You actually met with him in the should also fight. I know that throughout and timeagain--the highest percentage, Dr. wewill wel- jail eeli ? our historieal experience women have been Herbert Hendon says, because of the loss of t will have to the head of our families, a lot, but at the a lover. But I think it's fair to say it's be­ )Ut if the HUEY: Yeah, right, I talked tohimin same time you get male chauvinism among cause of a loss of love. emy, and, as the jury room for about 30 minutes or blacks as a real problem. Because males Whites commit suicide-- the biggest per­ !r this country so. For emotional experiences like that centa~e-- b~cause of a loss of prestige, some I can hardly find words when I had come in with this attitude of "I have to 1ere no war show this woman that I am strong, and I materrai thmg, the professional status of the 1estions will ~~.Y!Din_g to teil him ...So it was quite group and so forth. And this shows that an experience. won't tollow that stereotype." So you charge us. really have a real problem of male chau­ first, blacks don't have a professional status history of vinism among us blacks, because of our in the first place. So the onion skin has LNS: There were some people who were been stripped away till where we lose each ~merican history. We're working on that and 1 surprised that the Party made public other, then we commit suicide. · he Canadian think we'll solve it. ' ed World War statements saying that incidents like I think that this is sort of symbolic, ac­ Marin are going to happen more often. is. Not only LNS: Oo you think that women should tuall_y. It shows that we're being destroyed, am,we'll Can you expiain that? but 1t also shows a redemption. Because in be am~>ng the troops that are being sent iends who to support the Vietnamese ? the new world, people will only live to love HUEY: Weil we feel safe in saying that. each other anyway, you see. We won't be In the first place the party isa vanguard bly be from HUEY: Women definitely will go. concerned about those material things and !!ry decisive group with primary emphasis on radical­ so forth. l'm contending that what sustains 3Use many of izing ~nd educating the people through the revolutionist is the love that he has for md fight with pract1ce, through activity, through pro­ ~NS:_ What exactly is going to be happen­ mg wrth the rest of your legal proceeding. the people and this motivates him to de­ ~rican aggres­ grams that are apparently reform, but in When does the trial start, what do you st~oy those things that have stripped every­ change that fact are not reform at all. We teel that expect to happen ? thmg else away. So it's a destruction anda :1 I think it any program which mobilized the com­ redemption. :le of this munity towards the revolutionary goal-­ HUEY: I don't know. My lawyer is as­ ow the Viet­ no matter what program that is-- it cer­ LNS: Thanks a lot. :, and also tainly. is not a reformist program. A pro­ leep, and l'm not even worried about it (laughter-- Charles Garry has been lying 1t be settfed g~am IS only reformist when it makes CHARLES GARRY: Let's go eat. sllght changes and it also blocks the peo- on the ground dozing this whole time). 8 midnight

There is presently a rumor flying around When the dozen of us reached the Tivol i campus in which I happen to be involved. Garden none of us wanted to fig,t. We In order to both set the rumor straight and felt that any normal person seeing the to warn the community if someone hap­ strength of our numbers would certainly pens to get caught in a similar situation, yield what wasn't th~irs in the first place. I feel campell ed to depart from the pol i­ But not John C. Warning him that we tical orgasms usually ejaculated in this were there and that it would cost him a column. · new lock if he didn't open up, we con­ fronted silence. The door was kicked in Rumor has it that a dozen Bard students and there hestood with a bed pole in his drove up to the Tivoli Garden one night hand. We told him we were coming in to and completely stripped the proprietor, get what was ours as he screamed about he had ac­ John C., of all the decorations getting the cops. quired for his coffee shop which was to open up expressly for the use of Bard stu­ It took us fifteen minutes to remave from MARXISTWINS IN CHILE dents. Rumor also has it that these Bard the walls everything that was ours. In students broke and entered John C.'s pri­ that time he attacked my girlfriend and Santiago, Chile (LNS)- The people of Chile chose a MarxiSt vate dwelling, terrorizing the occupants, was pulled off, but not before he had suc­ head of state on Sept. 4, the first time in the history of bourge­ spilling blood from the nose of the pro­ ceeded in inflicting a wound ri!;tlt through ois presidential elections that the capitalists have been defeated prietor, blacking the eye of his wife, and her leather jacket which ran from her el­ by their own institutions. beating their intant son. bow down to her wrist. Twice more tie Sixty-two -year-old Salvador Allende won 36.3% of the vote, attacked and was brought down each time. My girlfriend used to live in the ''Tivoli a plurality of 39,338 over his el~ conservative opponent. B1,1t Only scratches were incurred by two of Hilton" which stands diagonally across under Chile's constitution, since Allende d id not win a majority our numbers from piebbles on the ground from the Tivol i Garden. Upon moving on­ Congress is designated to appoint Chile's next pres­ and John had only a deeply wounded of the votes, to campus she opened a trunk and was ident on October 24. It is this fact that will niake the next few pride if he had one at all. shocked to find all of her Indian bed­ ones in the history of this copper-rich nation months turbulent spreads, curtains, and personal belongings ten million people. During all the noise John was making of such as an expensive Indian sari missing. A Congress should elect the candidate who within those fifteen minutes, I stood on By tradition, quick check of the "Tivoli Hilton" found but upholding the election of a Marxist will be the street rapping to the two other male came in first, no trace of the articles. Upon hearing that the severest test Chile's "democratic traditions" have had to occupants. One was too stoned to under· John had been in and outall day, we years. Given the composition of the Congress­ e. stand what.was happening and the other face in forty went acros5 the street to check it out. in which Allende's forees hold 80 of the 200 seats, the right­ was just up there on the weekends, hardly of power is held by the Christian knew John, and wanted no part in what ists hold 75, and the balance Now it is perfectly possible to walk in there are just too many possible combinations to was going on. Later I went hiside and Democrats- . someplace and find an article or two iden­ here. asked John's wife if she and the baby were calculate tical to those which you mi!;tlt also happen Sept. 4 victory was the culmination of an 18- all right, as did two others in our party, I Allende's to own. But when six out of the seven bed­ socialize Chile without resorting to armed diseovered. She as5ured me that she was year effort to spreads hanging on the walls happen to be has run in four consecutive elections since 1952. untouched, that the baby was fine, and in struggle. He identical to the ones you lost, when an­ campaign promises is his vow fact they had both been through "worse Among Allende's more daring other is cut in half and hu ng as eurtai ns, expropriate the U. S. copper companies and the big na­ than this." to when the curtains you sewed with your tional monopolies. He is backed by a broad coalition (known own hands are also cut in sections to serve Unidad Popular), led by the powertui Communist Party. Our astonishment and trustratian was now as as tablecloths, one might safely assume Allende's right-~ing opponent and front man for the multiplied a hundred times and when we Chilean oligarchy is 74-year-old that there has been foul play. got to Adolf's we felt like giving up the copper companies and the Upon confronting John C. we Alessandri Rodriguez, who offers the peo­ sh ip and forgetting about it. • But when we ex-president Jorge considerately gave him the chanee to use cam­ · told a few friends they immediately came ple law and order. The principle tactic of Alessandri's whatever excuse possible in. order to ease with ads saturating to our aid. Of course we couldn't go to paign was a primitive anti-communism, the pressure. "Weil, .maybe someone else a firing squad, the police because nothing had identifica· the masS media that show a man being shot by stole them and gave them to you but with CUBA under the last picture in the sequence and bold tion on it .. After all, people move up to these are our belongings and we would the country so that they don't have to put letters: THIS IS COMMUNISM ... DO YOU WANT THIS FOR appreciate having them back." But CHILE? a name tag on everything and don't have John e. demanded proof as he gave us to lock all the doors. One of the contributors to the company in charge of three different stories as to how he ac­ this advertising campaign was none other than the Anaconda quired the items. Copper Company, U. S. A. Michael Harvey We leftthe Tivoli Garden astounded that so.meone could act this way and frustrated at the thought of yielding what we knew: (LNS)-- The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Con­ was ours. Of course I returned alane and vention, sponsored by the Black Panther Party, met last politely announced that I would be back RHINEBECK MENS SHOP week in Philadelphia. Workshops drafted proposals which the following day to pick everything up, are to be incorporated into the final version of the new con­ it they would be so kind as to gather it AND stitution. The final 5ession of the convention will begin on together. John e. pounced on me, held November 4, tentatively in Washington D. C. me against the walf, shouted something HUDSON VALLEV weeks getting · , one of the New York Panther 21, ex- about working hard for two DEPARTMENT STORE plained why this convention is necessary: "It was slave­ his coffee shop together and no one was owners and Iandownars who drafted the original Constitution about to wreck it all. Stiil holding me, he to serve their own needs. 'All men are created equal...' But dragged me across the floor and threw me women and black people were not considered people." out in the street. Such violence I never TR6-4881 Rhinebeck, N. V. expected from a hip looking cat out here in the country.

(LNS)-- Frank Zappa once said, "I would Iike to sug­ LOS ANGELES (LNS and The Militant) --The National Chicano r-W-e_W_a_nt_Y_ou_T_o_Jai_"_n_O_ur_Ch_u-~-h.. gest that you don't use speed, and here's why: it is going anti-war demonstration, which mobilized unprecedented numbers of As An to mess up you~ heart, mess up your liver, your kidneys, rot out your mmd. In general, this drug will make you ·the Chicano community here August 29, was the target of an appar- "-dallld IJ-L.&a. just like your mother and father." ently planned, bloody police riot. UJI .at• The police attack involved the use of clubs, guns and teargas. And Have The Rank Of It led to the murders of Chicano journalist Ruben Salazar, and de- monstrator$ Gilberto Diaz and Len Ward. At least 70 other peo- Doctor of DIYinlty ple were injured by the police. Several leaders and candidates of w..,. • ~,. 111 , ~~~•=••lllliol•. MANCHESTER, England (LNS)- Research chemist Alan the Colorado Crusade for Justice and La Raza .Un ida Party were ;t:.'; .:.:::-:'=-..:..:= ~ Jones of the University of Manchester has been awarded $180- arrested on trumped-up felony charges. w11o .....,. .... • IIIIIM; AH .-... IIIUCied 000 by the Ford Foundation to work on male anti-fertility In a maS$ meeting of 600 people on Sept. 3, it was voted to !.,~O:W.:a'.!: !::=.::.!::: finish the interupted anti-war demonstration on the 16th. The ...... ,., ... churc:h,vounwr: chemicals. In a statemant on accepting the award Jones said 1. s.rt ~ - ehunlll Md W1Y far • · following demands were made: end the police occupation of the ...... -. ~ .....-nv .,.. o1111r -. that such work had to be done at universities becalJse drug 2 companies have a "repugnance" toward the idea of tampering Chicano community; free all those arrested in the police attack ·:r=, -:=..::.._._..,.. · with male fertil ity, but not with temale. and drop all charges against them; and investigate the police mur- a::a,r:,:.::..,-:,.,-::;: from ... Another reason may be that male anti-fertility chemicals ders by a body which .would include representatives elected .... lhft ...... _"" _ _._ are so very simple that profil8ble drug patents would be almost the Chicano community. · , ...... _.__ impossible to obtain. Jones is placing most of his effort on Funds to finance the Sept. 16 action are desperately needed =.:.:,: ;:_-::-" .... tw ...:- ~ and may be sent to the Nati.onal Chicano Moratorium CQmmittee, 01or1n1ty o..- w. .. s- a.n.r.c~.,.. ~ trimethylphosphate (TMP), whi~eeps male rats steriie in­ Ol'dlnMion .. ,_.._. In 11110 ...... - definitely on twice. a waek dosas, but does not reduce their 4629 East Brooklyn, Los Angelas, Calif. 90022. Statements o f ...-.. OOlilibL FilEE . u•t CHUIICH- C8l1 ba IOX ... HULL v.:IOD, fl.OIIIDA .aa, desira or ability to ICI'8W, ..t whic:h 181V81 them comptetaly support ft inforrnation conceiming locaiiUpport action fertile when the eto. end. art to the ana actctr.. 9 • newhaven no • "When I am set free, I will continue to isa political prisoner. The prosecu­ plained to them by the judge. serve the people. I will do so ... until the tor's case was pitifully weak, ·and hen the jury told the judge it could day I die." --Lonnie Mclucas prosecution witnesses contradicted t reach a decision, Mulvey asked not only each other but also state­ em to reconsider the legitiniacy of ments th ey themselves had made e minority's position in light of previously. (Anyone wishing to see On September 1 after six days of de­ e majority's agreemeot. This is a mo re detailed account of th is trial robably what did it. liberation, the jury reached a "com­ is urged to cometo the Observer promise verdict" in the case of office.) But the judge's rulings al­ Lonnie Mclucas, Connecticut area most compensated for prosecuting captain of the Black Panther Party. Mclucas was being tried on four attorney M arkle's failings. M ulvey Mclucaswas the first of the· New counts: 1) conspiracy to kidnap, admitted as evidence tapes which ha 2) kidnapping resulting in death, Haven N ine to go on tr i al. The N ine, been illegally seized from New Have which includes 3) conspiracy to murder, and 4) party chairman Panther headquarters. The tapes Bobby inding with criminal intent. The Seale, are recent victims of a were fragmented and unclear, and coordinated government program rst charge carries the death penalty. to even a prosecution witness adm itted el im inate the Panther leadership that they had been re-used o-n several he jury found Lonnie Mclucas through use of the American Judicial occasions. Yet they were played to system. ilty of conspiracy to murder, and the jury, supposedly to prove that ot guilty on the other three counts. Mclucas had been a willi ng accom · He-faces up to 15 years in prison. The charges against Mclucas involvec plice to the crime. R ules of E videne News of th is conviction will mean to his alleged participation in the mur­ state that such things are not admis­ ture juriesthat the Panthers are der of another Black Panther, Alex sable when th ere ·are live witnesses ilty of killing Rackley, and the Rackley. The state elaimed that to testify, yet when the defense ob­ ials of the rest of the N ine will be ~ Mclucas, along with George Sams jected on these grounds M ulvey over en more difficult for the and Warren Kim bro (two ex-Panthers ruled it. defense. lso, through turned st~te's witness), helped in the "compromise dict," the government can per­ the kidnapping and murder of Rack­ Probably the most untair rulings petuate the talse belief that the ley. The Panthers said that Rackley came down from the bench when th merican judicial system treats was a member in good standing, and defense sought to question witnesses an1' and other political prison- that he. was killed solely by George about George Sam s's m en tal com­ W i .. i impartiality. Sam es, who was a police info rm er petenee and charactet. Sams had from the beginning. been deseribad by New York docto Frank Mon ta fia as "mentally defective, moronic, of Against his wishes, Mclucas's case unstable personality, and o.f border­ was severed from those of his co­ ·s UD.rtT line intelligence." Other witnesses defendants. Separating the trials were prepared to recount instances increases defense costs,.prejudices of Sam s's past brutal ity and ego­ the later trials with the "evidence" mania. ~ Since George Sam s was the europe, hawaii, the world from the earlier ones, and makes it prosecution's· star witness, the one more difficult to sustain the morale who accused M elueas of a part in sl