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JUNE 29, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37 /NUMBER 25 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE WATERGATE: WHY NIXON FEARS DEAN'S ~-=TESTIM -page 13 Millions of, people think Nixon would fail lie detector test, but this David Levine drawing was re;ected by the New York Times and the Washington Post as 'too hot to handle: It was first published by Rights, magazine of the Nationa1 1Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. For watergate news, see pages 13-16. Brezhnev-Nixon deals= no step ·toward pea~~ In Brief NEW DEATH SENTENCES IN IRAN: A military tri largely on testimony given by a well-known professional bunal in Teheran condemned six men 'to death on June witness for the L.A. police department in drug cases in 10 and one woman, Simeen Nahavandi, to a 10-year volving Blacks. Seven other witnesses testified that Smith term in solitary confinement. The verdict has been ap was nowhere near the place where he allegedly sold the pealed to a military review board, which ordinarily gives drugs on that day. There were no Blacks on the jury. speedy approval to such sentences. (For more information Smith, whose sentencing is scheduled for July 10, faces on the repression in Iran, see the World Outlook section.) five years to life under California's indeterminate sen tencing law. The Mongo Smith Defense Committee is THIS YSA LEADER CONDEMNS PERSECUTION OF IRAN looking into appealing his conviction. IAN STUDENTS: The recent indictment of six Iranian students accused of assaulting an Iranian consular official WEEK'S CHICANOS WIN FIGHT FOR A NEW SCHOOL: Chi in San Francisco March 26 has been strongly condemned canos in Chicago's Pilsen community won a significant by Andrew Pulley, national secretary of the Young So MILITANT victory when the board of education agreed recently to cialist Alliance. 3 U.S. bombs despite new build a new high school there. In a letter to the U.S. attorney in San Francisco dated Vietnam 'cease-fire' The struggle began eight months ago when the board June 17, Pulley stated, "the charges are politically moti of education decided to shut down Froebel High School 5 Protests hit U.S. bombing vated and stem from the defendents' activities in protesting and transfer all the students to Harrison High School, of Cambodia, W'gote the brutally repressive regime of the Shah of Iran." Pulley ignoring the community's demands that a new school demanded "that all charges against the six be dropped crimes be built. immediately, and that your office and other agencies of 6 Teamsters, Mafia, and Recently several demonstrations were organized by the the U.S. government halt all the harassment of these Committee to Build a New School in the Pilsen Commu Nixon foreign students residing in the U.S." 7 Form workers strike nity. The committee included students from Froebel and Harrison, two Chicano community organizations, and having impact TRADE UNIONISTS SUPPORT FARAH STRIKE: More members of La Raza Unida Party. 8 Will Nixon's 'freeze' than 1,200 New England trade unionists demonstrated On June 7, about 300 students and community members holt rising prices? in Boston June 15 in support of the striking Farah pants marched from Froebel to the board of education and 9 Arrest of NCLC thugs in workers. Contingents representing the Amalgamated demanded to meet with the superintendent of schools, Clothing Workers, the International Ladies' Garment New York demanded but their demand was ignored. On June 13, when the Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, the Mas demand for a new school was to be taken up at a public 17 Was African liberation sachusetts Teachers Union, the Farm Workers Support board of education meeting, some 40 to 50 parents and Day 'escapist'? Committee, and the Socialist Workers Party marched from students attempted to enter the building, but many were 18 Analysis of primary vote prevented by police. The board, however, finally gave for Hermon Badillo in to pressure and voted at that meeting to build the 19 Chicago steelworkers new school. run campaign in union elections CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND HAITIAN EXILES IN U.S.: ·21 Frame-up of Rosenbergs Between December of last year and April of this year 24 North Carolina Blocks 107 Haitian refugees fleeing "Baby Doc" Duvalier's face frame-up trial, ra regime have arrived in Miami, Fla., seeking political asylum. The U.S. Immigration Service has responded cist violence by charging them with illegally entering the country and has tried to have them deported. All of them face almost 2 In Brief certain imprisonment, if not death, if they are returned 10 In Our Opinion to Haiti. Letters Twenty-five of the Haitians, fearing for their lives, have 11 La Razo en Accion fled the authorities. A campaign to win asylum for these political exiles Notional Picket Line has been launched by the Committee for the Defense of 12 Great Society the Haitian People, a coalition of four Haitian organi Women in Revolt zations in the New York area and the U.S. Committee By Any Means Neces for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners (USLA). sary The immediate focus of the campaign is to organize the 19 American Way of Life sending of telegrams of protest to the immigration author ities in Miami. Telegrams have already been sent by 20 In Review Congresswoman Bella Abzug and Bishop Paul Moore. Militant/Dave Wulp Plans are under way to hold picket lines protesting WORLD OUTLOOK the threatened deportations in both Miami and New York. 1 Shah of Iron builds bul the Clothing Workers' headquarters to Filene's department For more information, call USLA at (212) 691-2880, wark for imperialism store, a major retailer of Farah pants. They then held or the Committee for the Defense of the Haitian People at (212) 491-6580. Protests should be sent to District 3 Peron opens attock on a mass picket line during the lunch hour to support the strike of Farah pants workers in Texas. The Farah Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 51 S.W. 'Trotskyists' First Ave., Miami, Fla. 33130. workers are mostly Chicanas who earn only $1 to $1.35 -MIRTA VIDAL 4 Revolutionists oppose an hour in sweatshop conditions. - Peronist 'social truce' Demonstrating workers lost at least two hours' pay by punching out for the action, and busloads from Prov idence, Fall River, and New Bedford factories lost an entire day's pay. YOUR FIRST THE MILITANT BOSTON MARCH OPENS GAY PRIDE WEEK: Five hundred singing and chanting demonstrators marched ISSUE? VOLUME 37 /NUMBER 25 JUNE 29, 1973 through the streets of Boston June 16, opening the be CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 20, 1973 ginning of Gay Pride Week 1973. Contingents in the SUBSCRIBE march, the largest so far in Boston, came from several Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS New England groups, as well as from many gay orga Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS nizations in Boston. TO THE Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING Participants in the march included State Representative Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., Barney Frank, who introduced a bill into the Massachu MILITANT 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: setts legislature calling for full civil tights for gays. The VIVA LA HUELGA! The United Form Workers Union is Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business ,Office (212) bill was recently defeated. Also present at the demonstra 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1107 1/2 N. Western struggling for its survival. The Militant actively supports Ave., los Angeles, Calif. 90029. Telephone: (213) 463- ion were Diana Travis, Socialist Workers Party candidate this struggle. 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