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With a little help from our friends it's getting better all the time. This is the time of year when it all fits together, tight, Some are predicting a Raight-like summer for Milwaukee's East Side, and if we can avoid some of the hazards no one will believe what a gas it will be.
The community is pulling itself back together, and plans left over from last summer-a switchboard, a free press, celebrations, festivals, a free store, and crash pads for runaways-are being re vived. We'll keep you posted and let you know where you can get what you need to survive. And Gunrunner Press will be publishing a book this summer chock full of tips on how to live and dig it; it'll be distributed free, and we'll let you know where and when.
The Grant Park Spring bust-out Love Phase IV was better than anyone expected, and the next one, tentatively scheduled for early June in Washington Park, will be the best yet. Go, and take friends and family. Milwaukee needs you1. PEOPLE, the organization re sponsible for Love Phase and its' hitch-free joy, deserves your blessings.
Twelve of the Milwaukee 14, the lot of them saints, are on trial as of this writing, and a joyous affair that is. If you haven't been there, and if the trial is still in progress when you read this, go and watch and learn what it means to be alive.
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday, get back to where you once belonged.
Good times! ROBB (E)r8i>9 SAWYER PRFSS Mt RlWTS RBEKVED ****•: Vista Works With Poor for Fun and Profit
VISTA, already a dispersed and principals want to know, who the have done so long before the Of change by working within a bad ner core; but they don't want to disorganized middle class volun irnportant parents are, but only fice of Economic Opportunity of system. The black child is, of change this. They'd rather send teer program designed to help in order to hold on to their pow fered them money to do the old course, the guinea pig for all their juniors and seniors into the central city agencies rise to the er; and now they'll have VISTA's VISTA thing in a novel way. their experimentation. Some stu black schools to check things out. fullest level of their own incom to help them do it (that is, those Even the present VISTA Volun dents will really be I ieve that Meanwhile, the system grinds petence, is now seeking to move who don't- get their asses kicked teers in Milwaukee, who are be change is possible within the sys relentlessly on, adhering rigidly closer to the establishment. Their in). VISTA Volunteers ought to ginning to view the National pro tem and after they find out that to its tradition of segregation, and latest gimmick, "Operation be working with parents seeking gram as a means of perpetrating it isn't they'll resign in disgust standing firm in its refusal to let Bridge, " has been opposed by 29 to get meaningful power, not poverty have chosen to reject the or stay on reluctantly. VISTA the black community have any present and former Milwaukee colluding with those who wish to concept. real voice in the running of its Volunteers come and go; UWM is VISTA Volunteers. continue taking i t away. Even At a meeting held las t Tuesday, schools. The University, for all willing to sacrifice them so long In this program, officially call when they refuse to play the ad May 13, at Highland Methodist its pretensions to changing the as its relationship to the school ed the VISTA Teacher Training ministration's game, their free Church, they discussed the pro system, only succeeds in perpe Program, volunteers will be train dom will be extremely limited. posal and the implications of VIS system isn't jeopardized. tuating that system and saving it ed by University of Wisconsin- i Principals either cover up or re TA's coming i n at the behest of Of course, the black commu when it becomes vulnerable. The Milwaukee personnel to go into fuse to admit conditions which UWM and School Superintendent nity is getting screwed. The Uni VISTA Volunteers-to-be had bet ghetto schools to work as school reflect-badly on them. A vol Gousha to bolster his pet project, versity knows damn well that their ter get hip to this in a hurry. aides, "bridging the gap" between unteer not playing the game then the North Division sub-system. best students go to the suburbs to The University may fool their own school, home and community. becomes the "narrow minded They agreed to send a letter to teach and the most narrow minded students, but they won't fool the Curiously enough, they are to be idealist" who "falls to see the •the VISTA Regional Administra-* and naive ones end up in the in- . black community. directly responsible to the princi overall purpose" of the program. tor in Chicago asking him to re pals in the schools. The fact The real threat to change is the verse the decision to set "Oper that the principal is most often principal. Firing the principal is ation Bridge" in motion. the cause for the gap existing inconceivable, but firing VISTA's The university isn't quite so in Grub Bag: Story would seem obvious to any parent. undoubtedly is not, especially if conspicuous as VISTA about play Indeed, in communities where they start busting the professional ing the man's game. In tact they parents begin to attain power, bubbles of reactionary teachers are quite frank; a leaflet adver they often start by organizing to and administrators. In addition, tising the program reads in part: About The Sun have the principal of their dis their supervisors will be people "Through its (UWM's) involve trict school fired; but such ob knowledgeable i n the operations ment in recruitment, training and By Ita Jones vious things do not occur to VIS of ghetto schools, but who only in-service training, the UWM None of us needs to be told of the tremendous waste that goes on TA and the University School of offer more of the same. If they School of Education will use this in this country, or why it goes on. I'm thinking not so. much of the Education. Undoubtedly, many were seekinq change, they would opportunity to further its attempts cars and shoes which are made to fall apart, or the wheat and vege to revolutionize the undergraduate tables which are not grown, or the millions poured into destruction teacher training program. It will and death— because this wastage will be stopped only when the class VISTA's in effect, attempt to give the which presently makes World decisions is stripped of its power. Milwaukee, Wisconsin May 14, 1969 junior year in a relevant setting I was thinking of sunshine, which we waste by wrapping ourselves through this voluntary service. up in houses, and by shrouding entire populations in cities. Those who have reviewed the pro It is certainly sad that in this age and for several corridors of years posal are impressed with the fact into the past there have been people who have insisted that they were Mr. Charles Henderson, Vista Administrator that this VISTA program is quite Office of Economic Opportunity not animals. Even today many people don't realize that not only are Great Lakes Region different both in terms of orien we much like animals but we are also very much like plants. What 623 S. Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60605 tation and operation from other takes place when a plant carries on what we call photosynthesis takes VISTA programs. This represents place in man also, since his body is able to make use of the ultra Dear Mr. Henderson! another part of a developing co violet rays. Vitamin D, produced in large quantities in solar.radia We, the undersigned, feel impelled to convey our opposition to operative* relationship between the the implementation of the Vista Teacher Training Program in the tion, has the function of fixing calcium and phosphorous in the bone North Division Subsystem. The decision of Great Lakes Regional the School of Education and the structure. This means that it only takes a small amount of calcium to proceed with this program appears to have completely Ignored Milwaukee Public Schools, (ita the extensive opposition to the subsystem within the black com to keep your bones strong if all of it is made usable. munity. Like the subsystem grant, the GEO grant appears to have lics added) Polar people, who don't each much milk or vegetables (a large source been secured with little or no prior consultation with the resi dents of the area involved. Such a program cannot be operated "The program was designed, es of Vitamin D), and don't get much sunlight either, are^ still nature's without deference to the community's expressed viewpoint on the subsystem. For Vista to channel volunteers into the subsystem sentially, for those college stu children and they don't get rickets (soft bones and teeth) because of is to further legitimize that program. As such we cannot sup dents who for financial or per the large amounts of Vitamin D they consume in the form of fish oil. port it. sonal reasons of dissatisfaction The English, on the other hand, are far too removed from nature We suggest that Vista reaffirm its concern for community opinion to have things work out this well. Rickets has been known for a long and that your decision to begin the program be rescinded. leave school about the sophomore year or so and come back later. time as "the English disease. " It happens that very little of the cal Sincerely youra The VISTA service provides an cium they get from their milk and vegetables can actually be used by *&^? %y Jho Sit, dUl outlet for them both. While earn their bodies. This is because: ing a bit of money, and yet keep 1) There isn't enough sun. ing on with credited activities at 2) Industrialization took people out of whatever sunshine there was. the university level, the student 3) Models of beauty in England became thin, pallid people with is challenged by a most relevant blue networks of veins showing through what was supposed to be fine educational experience." aristocratic skin; fragile bonewbrk in the face and hands were es In other words—work with the pecially valued. (I feel this beauty is not natural, because beneath poor for fun and profit—and you it even the wealthy are tubercular.) % fat. -^ don't even lose any college cre 4) We should consider the periods of supposed morality in England, dit. Quite obviously, the School when the body became a column to be draped in heavy cloth, up to of Education is only taking care the pale neck and the wrists, locking out all touch, including that of its own, yet hoping to effect Cont. onpag6 8 KALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 3 Twelve on Trial-A Courtroom Confrontation By Dennis Gall t o the issues, he could not stop Although at the time we are them from presenting their side of going to press, the trial of 12 of the 'truth.' the Milwaukee 14 is barely half Without lawyers (by choice) the over, a few reflections on what twelve defendants again and again has happened so far are in order. over the wearisome and half In his opening statement to the hearted objections of Samson de jury, Fred Ofile said, "the Issue clared that the essential issue of for me is that we are working to the case was the existence of le light fanatacism. A fanatic is gal slavery, the Selective Service someone who has a total grasp of System. a half truth." Assistant DA Sam Ruth Junge,clerk of local board 46, was called as a witness by son i n his opening argument re the state to'testify as to how flected that half truth. The con \ much time and money was spent tention of the district attorney is in reconstructing the destroyed that the action of the ' 14' is sim files. She even explained how ply, "arson, theft and burglary. " she had to cut off the burnt edges The 'other half,' that is, the of partially destroyed files, and war in Vietnam, the Selective a s far as the DA was concerned Service System, and the immor that was all there was to it. But ality of this government is "irre Father Janicke told the jury that levant" according to the state. "I will show that the cutting of Samson spent a great deal of time burnt edges off draft records that establishing that the burnt and are burned with gasoline or na destroyed draft palm is not the same as the cut records were of value and that ting off of human limbs burnt by therefore the act of destroying napalm." them constituted a crime. The Much more could be said, but defendants spoke to the value of it is best saved until the verdict By the time this paper hits the you from doing that." The moral they -did) then they are not any the human lives that the records is in, best saved till there is time streets the jury will have de dilemma for the Milwaukee Four more guilty of "arson, burglary, threatened and though Judge Lar to analyze the trial—a trial so cided. The state doesn't want teen is over, they made their de and theft," than our hypotheti sen ruled again and again that strange, unreal, frightening and those twelve jurors to consider cision last Sept. 24, and now that cal man is guilty of assault. such contentions were irrelevant yet, somehow so terribly human. anything but what's relevant but dilemma faces the jury, rather Twelve to Twelve. That's how yet as Fred Ojile said to them, Mulaney put it simply. He asked it stacks up, and no matter what "I want next week to be a dia them if they would convict a man logue. If you have any questions of assault.who pushed another out Judge Larsen instructs the jury as Fro m please ask them. If that's not of the way of a car. For if the to the "law," in the final analy allowed then discuss it among Fourteen did prevent young men sis it's entirely their decision, yourselves, and if that's not al from being drafted and sent off and indeed, as Father Harney said lowed then discuss it with your to kill and be killed (and Sam "It's you, the jurors, who are the The Second Floor own soul, and no one can stop son's 'hard' evidence proves that conscience of the community. "
James Sorcic HUNGER HIKE
For the past two hours I have been trying to write, not what is in me, but rather what has been taken away from me. I want these words Rice, Prunes, & Red Herring to stand as a record of a man's emptiness. I want this paper to force me into remembering the night J wandered about the house as if no By Dennis Gall such programs in the past will re munist countries and said, "Has thing had changed, until finally I sat down to write and found one very Now ask yourself, what could ceive 15% of the funds to pro anyone heard over TV or radio... large part of me missing. be more honest, decent and sin mote awareness of the problems about anyone doing anything for Originally, I had intended to skip the column for this issue. A week cere than a group of teenagers of o v e r-population and starva America or even being friendly? of the 14 trial, rallies, poetry readings and personal hang-ups have concerned about the problem of tion. ...Small wonder when our na left me somewhat tired, and totally confused. I wanted to use tonight world-wide hunger? What could The Milwaukee Metro News, a tion's government is full of em for pulling the pieces together; to forget as much as possible. better reflect the best American weekly newspaper of the far-right ployees sympathetic with the And then, just after dinner, I received word that a friend whom I democracy has to offer than has decided that there is some Communist cause; they only bite had called Brother long before it became fashionable, had committed 50,000 young men and women thing wrong with all this and not the hand that feeds them. " Well himself to a mental institution. They had finally forced him into a marching up to 30 miles to make only wrong but downright (left) now what does Florence mean? decision of: How do you wish to be destroyed? And like a man be money for hungry people all over subversive. In the April 24 edi She means that somehow sending ing strangled by a bone in his throat, he slashed his own windpipe in the world? Well, I don't know tion of the Metro, Florence C. money to Biafra or to American an attempt to- breathe._ of anything, but yet it seems some Harris (one of the Metro's hea Indians is somehow all a Commu nist plot and obviously anyone You see, the Draft. The American SS that grabs its own people by people can still find something vies) criticized a banquet held connected with this is also sym the balls, and crushes them. The Hand that has forced thousands of sinister and subversive in this. to promote the Hike. The ban pathetic to the Communist cause its children to mutilate their bodies, fuck their minds, leave their homes We're talking about the Mil quet was paid for by Ben Marcus (I seriously doubt if even Robert and run. And when-you cannot be crushed, they hide you in a camp waukee Hunger Hike. Briefly, of Big Boy fame, and Judge Lan Welch of the John Birch Society called Prison. Theyoall it Law. the Hunger Hike will take place dry served as chairman to a thous in his moments of wildest para I saw my Brother for the last time about two weeks ago. He said on May 24. The hike will cov and high school students. The noia would call John Doyne, or he'd be leaving soon and had just stopped in to say goodbye, I said er approximately thirty miles, menu consisted of rice and prunes Judge Landry "Communist sympa goodbye. I kissed him and said goodbye. Don't worry. I'll visit you •.each hiker going as far as he can. and was to demonstrate some of thizers. ") when the time-comes. And all that night I stayed up, feeding my Each youth is to obtain pledges the less appetizing aspects of hun anger. He was wrong, so fucking wrong, I Wanted to break open his from a sponsor. The sponsor must ger. Landry jokingly called the She had more to so/ about Lan head. I wanted to scream into his face that dodging the Draft is no agree to donate a set amount for menu of the 'banquet* held on dry. She said on page 12 of the thing more than an excuse from Big Mama. I wanted to slap him into each mile the hiker completes. April 1, "My April Fool's joke." May 15 Metro, "Judge Landry of understanding the importance of Resistance. Of actions. Of non vio So far sponsors range from friends Landry also jokingly suggested to the Circuit Court is Chairman. lent honesty. I wanted to show him thut there is no need to over and parents to local businesses. the students that if they were still Buttons are being sold, 'Hegh throw the American government, because through tactics such as these, The March will begin at County hungry they could go to Big Boy. Come De Judg'." What does that it'll lose itself in the shuffle. Lay slain-by the rebirth of dignity. Stadium and there will be check Several people spoke on the pro mean. Maybe she is accusing And man will be whole again. points along the way and the hi blem of hunger including Leonard Landry of starting the whole thing kers cards will be marked to veri Wolf, executive director of the because he secretly wants to be But the distance between our two decisions had left us cold and quiet. fy as to how much the sponsor American Freedom From Hunger come the czar of the button in I said goodbye without looking at him. And all night I reassured myself owes. The money is going to be Foundation. Well, Florence was dustry— I don't know. If all this that 1 was right and he was wrong. Resistance Now! Freedom Now! divided evenly among hunger^pro- irate. She accused Landry of mud-slinging, isn't enough to make Screams bouncing off the walls of my head like some mad Trotskyite v jects in the United States and for dragging penniless children out of you sick to your stomach consid demanding that his Brothers hurl their bodies into the wet gears of the eign countries (Peru, Thailand, their homes on the pretext of a er what Florence had to say about War Machine. If you cannot give your life to Freedom, then why pre Biafra, etc."). meal and then taunting them with hunger-in America. "At the mo tend to be a man? visions of Big Boys. ment, no presidential message to And finally the questions, quotations, and dogmatic bullshit had eaten The youth chairman of the pro Congress on 'hunger* is scheduled away that part which I had once held sacred. You see, the System, ject is Perry Muckerheide and It s~ That's not all though, for in and none is anticipated. So why in its own electronically controlled way, twists you into hating the adult advisor is Circuit Judge the May 15 edition of the Metro this Hunger Hike all of a sudden? weaknesses you once loved; hate the people Arvho, in their own very Robert W. Landry. Various offi Florence had more to say. She human way, contain those weaknesses. Until finally the fear they shot cials have endorsed the project said for instance, "The Freedom into you becomes an animal; and forgiveness and love are eaten away including County Executive Doyne. From Hunger Foundation is con Certainly not to feed Americans; ;, The project was started indepen nected with the Agricultural Or they aren't hungry. " I suggest by a machine. ^f#' i dently, but is now affiliated with ganization of the United Nations Perhaps it would have been better to skip this issue and try to for that Florence not show her head the American Freedom From Hun which seats 125 Communist coun in the inner city, one of those get what has happened to me tonight. I'm running out of questions; ger Foundation, Inc., and the tries. " She went on to intimate dark-skinned angular militants running out of words. I wanted to tell him. But I'm running and I'm Foundation which has sponsored that most of this food went to com- Cont. on page 11 tired and I can't raise my fist into the air when everything else is dead.
A REVISED EDITION OF THE IF IT WERE SUB . THE ASSEMBLY ABORTION BILL WAS STANT4ATED THAT REJECTED THE &IU- - INTRODUCED TO THE-P THE MCTHER CANNOT ONTHE FIRST LEGISLATURE TODAY, CONCEIVABLY! BALLOT WITH WITH THESE SUPPORT A VOTE , PROPOSED THE CHILD, 2£>7 TO 1 AlfMENDMENTS: PAGE 4 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE Letters, we get letters, we get stacks and stacks of letters...
of Vietnamese ancestry and have the other officers, had them re a French officer as a husband. move their badges. Here's what And I protest the action of this we'got: #254, #92-Prudish, #194, BOARD ACTION group, because America is help #234, and #209. I'd like to tell REITMAN TOO PREDICTABLE Dear Editor: ing my country. Our population my black and white, brothers and sidewalk skippers? It seems to me I have detec is being controlled not by immoral sisters to watch out for the SUCK- Dear Kaleidoscope: Thought you might be interested Which leads me to another ted a change in Kaleidoscope, pills, but by napalm, so the in IN GOO NS whenever they are in the following comments in the gripe. Supposedly the mecca for for the better I believe. A shift dividual parents do not sin. So in Wauwatosa. This GOON PLA musical Milwaukee is Reitman's perhaps from "Fuck don't Fight 1" we are not overcrowded except in TOON is out busting everyone LA Free Press, 4/4/69: to "Up against the wall!"? I refugee camps a bit. with anything on their heads lon (Skold): "Two things this con show. So if the cat's really hip, certainly hope so 'cause I'm sick And I want to see my country ger than crew-cuts. cert (Procol Harum at Fillmore he might try to be aware of the of hippies (love everyone — even with elections like in Chicago, Later Peace East) made clear about rock today. intellectual and artistic awareness the pig while he beats the shit which are the best money can buy. Ron The performers have an absolute of much of his audience, an aud out of you) and "illegitimate" Also my children are puzzled by contempt for their audience, and ience which now demands a more they are stricken with an utter eclectic selection of music — or protest (burn your draft card and the darkness of Negro soldiers, WHAT THEY WILL DO march to jail singing a hymn). and sometimes laugh at them (but lack of humor. The loss of hu else lose us to the legions in Sorcic is getting down to it; Watt not of course in uniform) so I know mor is fatal; it is that lack which Brookfield and West Al lis now is where he belongs — at Retro they want to be like in USA chil Dear Kaleidoscope: has as stultified classical music, abandoning WOKY for the "groovy spect. dren. And of course our country If you read carefully Dennis leaving it a wasteland for the so new psychedelic" stuff of WTOS Specifically, afterscrewing'the should be like yours, but here it Gall's article (KALEIDOSCOPE cial climber, the somber didactic, & WZMF. draft board, take a tour of the is not safe outside after dark. for April 11-24) on the people the cultural snob." Dig what I'm saying. Every country—let the FBI spend many But the 14 people do not want he calls "white liberals," you get Skold then scolds radicals for damn night, as predictable as the man-hours and dollars finding you us to have your style place to the distinct impression that he not attending hip concerts —"gi Suburpia commercials, Reitman (you're going to jail anyway). live. Besides, the records they dislikes them not because of what ven an audience like that, the plays Beggar's Banquet, too much Harrass your board by phone. burned can be replaced for less they think or what they do, but performers might mend their ways. Dylan (really Bob, the Holy Hour? Call up, giving a fictitious name than the cost of a couple of he- because of what he thinks they And the kids might learn to have Do you dig the Southern honkey and asking about something in liocopters or some other equip are thinking and what he thinks some fun again; revolutipnaries Dylan's currently pals with, too?) your file. They'll spend half an ment. So why try? they will do. tend to take themselves too ser Melanie, Leonard Cohen and a hour looking for a file that isn't Yours truly, David Randall Luce iously anyway." few others, nightly! These out of there. (Mrs.) Phuc D'Armie Mi Iwaukee My own experience recently,- thousands of great creative al I don't know where you've been P.S. This was typed for the poor from the weekly higira to Chi bums. Art to Reitman must be a keeping Sorcic for the last year old bitch by me, 'cause her arms BLOATED cago's Kinetic Playground, has negative: not tal king over a re of publication, but a few more just ain't there. revealed that the mini-hips and cord 'cut equals an artistic radio of those tips on how to build a Mike Gregory SECOND FLOOR management combine to supress performance. To some of us, art bomb or fix a pig will make up Sirs: the outstanding groups (as Ten also includes creativity and vari«" for it. Kaleidoscope for god's sake/a ation. Thus, more classical, jazz Venceremos! TOSA GOON PLATOON whine is not a voice/and that Years After a few weeks back) in blues, roots of rock'n roll, baro J. Nejak bloated nothing on the second favor of the hype group (like Bud que, electronic, etc. Less folk. floor/tries to be a painter/winds dy Guy). Ever notice the abun The show is becoming a monoton Dear Kaleidoscope: up being a cartoonist/heir appa dance of assholes in concert hall ous drag. Life is change. Live. TO AVOID CRUCIFIXION TOSA's gonna get you what's rent to Betty Boop/and as long as audiences demanding encores of Ken Schaefer happening! Well if you haven't I'm really hot/(sorry, no; little i groups less proficient than the Mi Iwaukee heard from any of the WEST side for me—an it/gets a little i)/ head?, I'll tell you. A few weeks must you print the drivel of some/ Editors & Disreputables: ago while waiting for your new pulp hack soap opering about an/ KALEIDOSCOPE Things about KALEIDOSCOPE: issue to come out I attended a exhibitionist bopper who thought 1. Yes. 2. Like most, you create P.O. Box 5457 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211 dance on 76th & Wright. Before the/elephant tranquilizer she more of a need than you" satisfy some of us could get in the BLUE bought/was THC running naked EDITOR •. John Kois —which happens always when you FAGGOTS started to hassle peo /mind you, naked in the park/ are moving, so continue moving. CIRCULATION Dennis Gall ple. The turnout of kids was Don't worry, I'm okay. I'm 20 3. the best is that, pardon the PHOTOGRAPHY Gary Ballsieper about 800 strong including about and/speeding like crazy/You try expression, you are educational. POETRY Jim Sorcic 30 so-called HIPPIES. Anyway, to turn the world/into a wee-they Articles like the GE, Texaco, REVIEWS Rich Mangelsdorff in the course of the night 125 tea party/instead of bringing it and Model Cities may bore some, RENEGADE LIBRARIAN .Gloria Gehrman people were ejected. When some all together./The staff is not stu but we must know what is meant COMMERCIAL ARTIST Beverly Eschenburg of us asked why—can you dig pid/there have been glimmers/you by words like "the establishment, " CALENDAR Craig Kois it —LOITERING. How the hell coy inventers./and because the etc., etc., and we must know can you loiter at a dance? They past is rehashed/instead of the Published and distributed by The Kaleidosoope Publishing Company the real operations of the real must have been hardup to fill the present lived/you are becoming world as clearly as the outfit on National Advertising Representative: Michael Forman, Concert Hall quota for the week. In hopes you indolent — obscene. the other side of the fence does, Publications, Inc. 309 S. Easton Road, Glenside, Pa. 19038, would publish this La long with M.A. Huth if only to avoid crucifixion. For Phone (215) TU 7-9224 a few other freaks got some badge Milwaukee, Wisconsin the rest of it — the reviews, the numbers. Because of the constant A special thanks to Marc Panto for his photos, and to Tom who poetry, the artwork — better and hassle we could only get five, al has helped us maintain our strength with edibles. better. 4. How about interviews so the lady nark who outranked with the area's foremost or hind most personages? 5. Off the sub ject. People behave strangely. Here now is Barbara Gibson shout ing down a film, for her own un known reasons. So might the DA. "Will you shout with me?" No. Because it is childish to judge a thing after seeing ten minutes of it, let along judge whether others should or shouldn't see it. In fact, ^WAVELENGTH drove me crazy for the first twenty minutes and then held me and finally got into the veins like the native sub stance blood. Other things I hoye disliked at first contact: KALEI DOSCOPE, acid rock, most per sons, HAMLET, gin, myself and other more personal enjoyments of the present. Speaking for sev eral, we did not want to engage in a Gallup poll while watching the film. The Neg Mov gave everyone their money's worth with the other films, so shout at the DMZ instead, who might be in terested in shouting back. Any Reitman raps nitely on wtOS-fm way the film was beautiful and I hear Mrs. Gibson is a good per son, and KALEIDOSCOPE was 103.7 right to print the two views as "Two Views," so it gets a little better all the time. •-„.._ progressive rock
Peace and cheers. J Conrad Bishop Milwaukee
A RANT TO RAVE
Dear Sirs: As the Milwaukee 14 go to trial, a lot of middle-class house wives will be ranting and raving. Honored sirs, I wish to add my rant to the rave. I am a middle class housewife
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The Journal Company boils down thusiasm and spark that an in surveys, demographic charts and to one question: who will run dividual, at his best, is capable other sterile data to keep them Milwaukee, the Mayor or The of achieving. Positions are informed. Jou ma I ? Powe r strugg I es can qualified until they become To speak of a police-state be interesting, but in this case meaningless; suggestions are of situation existing in certain por the stakes are so low—a slight fered when they are no longer tions of Milwaukee to a Journal restructurinc of the Milwaukee needed. The paperls editorial editorial writer, or to any su power system, at most —and the on the police riot in Madison burbanite, is to speak in a lan rantings of a paranoid and cry was full of predictable white guage they can't possibly under baby Mayor so absurd, that the liberal intentions and made se stand. The situation cannot be whole matter becomes an exer veral suggestions, but the sug demonstrated with charts and cize in complete irrelevance. gestions came a I most a week after graphs, dealing as it does (and the event and well after all sides as do many of the major problems The April 27th installment of werefullyset in considered cour affecting the welfare of an inner "Portrait of a Newspaper" deals ses of action. city) with human emotions, fears with the glories of The Journal's In addition, Journal editorials and biases. It must be experi editorial department. The lead- have a knack for belaboring the enced, and it can only be ex off piece is by Paul Ringler,who obvious. A case in point in perienced by living inside the as Editorial Editor can hardly be volves the legal hassle between city, by sharing firsthand the expected to find much fault with Kaleidoscope and the village of fears and hopes and realitiesand John Kois a lot of money to be made there; Journal editorial policy. Says Whitefish Bay. Only after Judge limitations of city living. Last issue's first installment of to being newspapermen because he: "Journal editorial writers Landry ruled that Kaleidoscope In addition, the flight to the Sunday Funnies, our response to they want to be writers and, have a good age mix, are good had a constitutional right to sell suburbs on the part of Journal reporters and...do not live in the 20-part "Portrait of a News hell, they have to live; to be papers in the Bay did the Jour editorial writers indicates that an ivory tower." paper"' appearing in each Sun coming teachers because, well, nal see fit to speak out: yes, they've already rejected the city day's Milwaukee Journal, eli it's secure and there's those long Editor Ringler goes on to say, they said, the judge was right. as a place to live. They'll cited some surprising reaction. vacations. Persons who dream ".. .editorials seek to enlighten, And again, after the state Su work here,but damned if they're Much of it was expected, but go elsewhere, and to become a influence and persuade. They preme Court affirmed Judge going to live here. Having completely unexpected was the newspaperman, a doctor, or a aim to improve the tone of pub Landry's decision, the Journal made that decision, a.decision reaction of The Journal Com teacher today is primarily an in- lic discussion, arouse to con again spoke out: yes, they said, so basic to what they obviously pany itself. Most there who read di cation of the bankruptcy of structive action, expose the bad the court was right. This from consider their own welfare, per it, from secretaries to editors, dreams in a modern capitalist and support the good. They ap The Journal, great guardians of haps the only editorial advice dug it, and went out of their society. peal to reason rather than emo free speech and a free press in they're justified i n giving city way to congratulate us on it. What the employer/employee tion. They depend on hard a free society. residents is: get out! facts, honest opinions, sound We had been aware of a rift rift at The Journal Company But even here, not wanting to But The Journal contradicts logic and firm tone rather than at The Journal between manage "means in terms of the future di offend the good ladies of White- its own rationalizations. If in bombast." ment and employees, but what rection of the paper is impossible j fish Bay, both editorials sug deed place of residence has little we had misjudged was the depth to predict. It is clear, how In other words, if you can gested that if the village was to do with a writer's ability to of the rift. Reporters are tra ever, that the people responsible say something about nothing, and truly concerned about obscenity understand the problems of a ditionally an unhappy group; for its contents (with the excep say it well, you'd probably and wished to censor Kaleido people, why then does the paper they are, after all, writers, but tion of the business office) are qualify as a Journal editorial scope , there were other ways boast in its May 11 "Portrait of writers who must almost daily dissatisfied with their product, writer. to go about it, when in fact a Newspaper" that "The Journal compromise their craft and in Journal policy, as described in Journal editorials, their sub you would expect them to take sends reporters, editorial writers telligence. Hence, the myth of the" first installment of Sunday ject matter and conclusions, are the lead in defining precisely and editors on assignments around the hard drinking, fast living Funnies, pretty well insures that decided on in conference, and why this paper is fully protect the world to background them reporter, a myth with some life they will stay dissatisfied, and represent-a consensus of the ed by the 1st and 14th Amend selves and to bring readers first in it yet, even at The Journal. the weight of Journal "tradition" thinking of the seven member ments to the Constitution of the hand reports on significant events But disenchantment at The is enough to make most of them editorial board. Greatness is ' United States. and national and international Journal seems much more wide give up any thought of fighting. rarely achieved by committee, The "ivory tower" mentioned trends and developments." spread. Much of the talk in and so this appraoch insures a earlier by Ringler seems a sore It is one thing to send a re side the company is the same as Some persons think they see certain blandness inJournal edi point with The Journal. Else porter into a slum dwelling to that on the streets: the company a connection between Sunday torials. They will be inoffen where on the same page, edi count the rats, and quite anot is too big, too rich, the paper Funnies and Mayor Maier's re sive, reasonably intelligent,and torial writer Perry Hill says that her' to have him live with the is dull and often condescending, cent attacks on The Journal only rarely relevant. This, of "it happens to be true" that all rats. There is no question as course, is a generalization. To competition would be welcome, Company. There is none. What Journal editorial writers live in to which approach would pro revive and twist an old joke, put as would an anti-trust suit. It's we might envision as an ade suburbs, and then attempts to duce the best writing and edi a large number of monkeys in a hard to find someone who even quate Mi Iwaukee daily newspaper explain why this doesn't neces torials on rat control and what room with a typewriter for each begins to believe the platitudes would upset the Mayor even more sarily interfere with a writer'? it means to the people involved. and eventually they will write of Journal Board Chairman Irwin than the Journal. ability to comprehend and dis Perry Hill, in the same piece a good editorial. The Journal Maier. Yes (yawn!) The Journal Com cuss the problems of the city in which he attempts to justify does on occasion publish a good Rarely, however, does the talk pany is probably a monopoly. But all the rationalizations anc the suburban life, says, "To and to-the-point editorial, but lead to any thoughts of action. But there is little the mayor can protestations to the contrary ig hold publ ic confidence, the paper the frequency of that event in A few talk of qui tti ng.. .but do about it, except perhaps to nore the simple and basic fac gives nobody a chance to sup dicates accident rather than de later, maybe. Most simply don't scream, throw a fit, and ^ry. that persons living outside the pose, even mistakenly, that an sign. care one way or another. Apathy Maier wants another newspaper .city cannot feel what it mean: editorial writer's private con is the rule, inside the Journal i n Milwaukee only because he Almost never will a Journal to live inside the city. Instead nections may affect or conflict as well as out. They'll trade thinks another paper would be editorial exhibit the vision, en of feelings, they must rely on CON'T QN PAGE 8 their work for 'x' number of dol more sympathetic to his vision lars, and please let's not talk of a better Milwaukee. His de- about it now. sire for another newspaper has i Editors like tcv refer to news nothing to do with what might the electric theatre company presents aaron russo's paper work as a "high calling." be good for the people of the Perhaps it was, but today it's city, or what might best serve simply an exchange of cash and the cause of a free and open goods: the American way. Teach press; rather, it has only to do ing and medicine, too. Today, with what would best serve the young people look forward to Mayor's interests. KINS T D G becoming doctors because there's . In short, Maier's fued with Mil WUA^f
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By Jeffrey Shero Berkeley campus, applauding a "In culture, capitalism has young speaker. 255 INT. PENTHOUSE SUITE- SHOOTING TOWARD FOYER-NIGHT given all that it had to give and D. A FORMATION OF RED As Che enters, brushing past two of Fidel's bodyguards. He looks, all that remains of it is the fore GUARDS IN PEKING. All the- tense and angry. ' Camera moves with Che and widens to take in Fi taste of a bad smelling corpse... " youths hold little red books, and del, Raul, Juan Almeida, Dorticos, Ramon, Rojas, A RUSSIAN GEN — Che Guevara they chant in unison a slogan of ERAL and the SOVIET AMBASSADOR. Man and Socialism in Cuba Chairman Mao. A buffet table is laden with cold cuts, canapes, and caviar. The Twentieth Century Fox's sense E. A TATTERED AND PEELING Soviet Ambassador raises a tumbler. of the box office hasn't dimin WALL POSTER with Che's tatter SOVIET AMBASSADOR: To world peace. ished. Last year they produced ed portrait on it. A girl cyclist Their quarrels have always been private. But this time, despite Fi such money-makers as "Valley of pauses to gaze at the poster. del's attempt to placate him —Che abandons his usual self-control. the Dolls," "Boston Strangler," F. -OUT CHE: Why wasn't I told of this meeting? I was deliberately exclu and "Planet of the Apes. " Now G. As the LAST TITLE FADES: ded, wasn't t? with Amerikan society rotting CLOSE ON AN AMERICAN FIDEL; Let's discuss it when we're alone. around it, Fox, seated in two GIRL - DAY She is standing in CHE: So you backed down and agreed to let them take back their capitals of decay—New York and the portals of some campus build missiles? Hollywood — understands that re ing, it doesn't matter where. FIDEL: Relax. Pour yourself a drink. We'll talk later. volution contains a bit of spicy There are books- under her arm Fidel crosses to the .buffet table, to the Soviet Ambassador's side and glamour. It's obvious. Kids used and on her breast a large button spoons a large gob of caviar on a piece of toast and begins to eat. to dream of being baseball stars with the words: MAKE LOVE NOT CHE: Why the caviar? What's there to celebrate? (to Soviet Am-_ or FBI agents; now they grow their WAR. She is lovely and her eyes bassador) Why aren't our Russian comrades eating crow? Doesn't it hair long and want to be rock brim with tears as she faces the sicken you that your cowardly leader — that craven ly bastard Krushchev stars or revolutionaries. This new camera, addressing an unseen lis fell to his knees and rolled over at Kennedy's bluff? f"*« tener. FIDEL: That's enough, Che! The script of the movie Che I THE GI-RL: I can't believe it. CHE: (unheeding) You think the world can ever forget that you So was held under the tightest se- Che isn't really dead.. .is he? viet shits sold your honor along with Cuba? Do you think your mll- I curity by Twentieth Century Fox. Even as the film begins the po iion-dollar-a-day-handout to Fidel, can ever erase your shame? Only 200 copies were printed, litical conditions which moved 256 OUT | each numbered and assigned to Che, the doctor, to become Che, 257 ATTOTHER ANGLE - FAVORING THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR a particular individual i n the the revolutionary thinker and gu Tense and tight-lipped, he downs his Vodka. I production. One Fox official, errilla leader, are ignored. In ' SOVIET AMBASSADOR: (addressing Fidel) If the Soviet Government disgusted with the bastardiza stead of portraying a man with the are down on their, knees, eating crow, if indeed we fear anybody, it tion of Che's life, zeroxed a highest sense of morality who is your earless Doctor Guevara—who doesn't ihind setting off a holo- copy and mailed it to RAT. We j could not ignore the need of the caust, that neither the United States or my Government seeks—a full print excerpts from the script impoverished, Che is transformed scale nuclear war. (a pause) I must inform you, on behalf of my along with other information so into an adventurer —the existen Government, that our aid to Cuba will be discontinued at.once—(mov that the potential audience for tial man who must have the ex ing towards exit) —unless you find a way to silence this provocateur. this movie can view It with real citement of battle to test himself. DORTICOS: Mr. Ambassador! As President of Cuba, please accept i. objectivity. The movie begins quoting Che: our apologies. And I must state emphatically that Dr. Guevara does deep silence roi —.,., i "Wherever death may surprise not speak for this country. trend doesn't worry corporate film- us..." but leaves out the begin The stunned Cubans stare at Che. Fidel has his arm around the Am Che's Departure smakers. As long as the subject ning of the quote which would bassador's shoulder accompanying him to the exit, followed by the Rus 266 INT. BSD* can be glamorized, the reality prove to be too unsettling for sian General. ' if||P edge of his bed, tr a n sf orm ed into " Ho 11 ywoodjj1—^ American audiences. The first Che pours himself a coca-cola and sits down. The rest gaze stonily are glazed, his s film producers are happy. Tine Che wrote was "Our every at Che. He lights.a cigar, ignoring them and waits for Rdel to re ing brandy into c "Che!" begins in rapid fire. action is a battle cry against im enter the room,.... youngster. Che Scenes of youth rebellion are in perialism and a call for the peo Rdel re-enters the room. Che rises at once. Cr€: You don'S terspersed with shots of Che's ple's unity against the great en CHE;. {Rdel - don't capitulate. The Yankees are bluffing. FIDEL: I can1* emy of mankind, the United States body, intercut with the picture FlDEL:t. They're not bluffing. They've enough nuclear-armed bombers Che picks up ti ^credits. The style is documentary. of America. Wherever death may in the air right now to reduce this island to cinders. bel and puts It jt The script reads: surprise us:.. " CHE: We've got two hundred thousand militia to take the missiles CHE* SfU1 ^on-A FADE IN For his portrayal of Che, Omar away from the Russians. This „is our one chance to achieve parity with :- Rdel makes ni INT. SCHOOLROOM - HIGU- Sharif read voluminously and gives the imperialists. CHE: Face the ERAS - HIGH ANGLE SHOT - Che credit for pricking his social FIDEL; A decision has been made. The debate is over. FIDEL: (brush! DAY conscience: "I read newspapers CHE: Have you all become Russian puppets? checkup. The room is no more than a now. " In an Interview Sharif of DORTICOS: It isn't bad enough that you drain our economy support CUBE: Then twin hut, devoid of furniture except fers this insight into Che, "I think ing guerrilla activities in countries that broke off diplomatic relations diced. for a rude table. .Che Guevara's I know more about Che than an y- with us — FIDEL: Later. bullet-ridden body lies on the ta one. He is basically a man who Che walks away toward the buffet table. Dorticos follows him talk He lies back oi ble. The room is dark, but a wanted to put his life in danger. ing at his back. calm. beam of light from one small win He is almost like Lawrence of DORTICOS? «—now you threaten the only source of income we have — FIDEL: They te! dow falls across Che's face. As Arabia... He was a. cejag^psl- -fi€T"~ the Soviet Union. We are in a state of financial crisis! And that's CHE: Who are camera moves in slowly en that son living out of his brain. It is your contribution to Cuba, Major Guevara. RDEL: You no i race, we hear softly: difficult for an actor to do a man Che has picked up a sandwich. He whirls on him, dropping the tiny. CHE'S VOICE without emotions on the screen." sandwich. CHE: (after a p Wherever death may surprise us, Contrast this to the real Che CHE: And what the hell is your contribution, Dorticos? To fly into is overdue. it will be welcome, provided that who wrote, "Let me say, at the Havana after we've spilled our blood. ..and organize the artti-Che cli FIDEL: (fights b this, our battle cry, reach some risk of appearing ridiculous, that que. Well you can stop plotting. If you're the best President Cuba CHE: I was go! receptive ear... CUT TO: the true revolutionary is guided, has to offer—Cuba is in a hell of a crisis! I didn't fight for Cuba to ,267 ANOTHER / EXT. A SQUARE - WEST BER by strong feelings of love. It is turn it into a hog trough for a bunch of sleazy politicians! I've bed meal on a tray c LIN - LONG SHOT - DAY impossible to think of an authen enough of Cuba! CEUA: Here... (STOCK) tic revolutionary without this Dorticos, enraged, pulls out a revolver. FIDEL: (turns a\ A student orator is exhorting mas quality." DORTICOS: You swine! CHE: Don't for< sed student demonstrators. We are Che believed that a man must CHE: (taunting him) Goon, shoot! Shoot you bastard! You'll ne Celia nods am engulfed in a wave of sound as live his beliefs. He left the re ver get a better chance— FIDEL- You woi the young rebels roar. volution in Cuba to begin anew Fidel moves swiftly between the two men> but not before Che has CHE; I told yo» HEAD CLOSEUP - CHE in Bolivia with the hope of wrested the pistol away from Dorticos and spat full in his face. Raul we lost the missi Pale, serene in death. The tu spreading the movement from his and Juan Almeida drag the enraged Dorticos from the room. -FIDEL: I need mult fades. CHE'S VOICE.. .that mountain base to nearby Argen The other guests leave quietly. martyred comrad< another hand stretch out to take tina, Paraguay, Peru and Chile. A-257 FIDEL AND CHE Che tosses the gun on the couch and crosses CHB: Rdel, le up weapons and that other men Even if he wasn't killed, the to the window, his back to Rdel. Che stares out the window. A get here. You wi take- u p weapons and that other choice of opening another guer men come forward to intone our rilla front in the Andes meant funeral dirge with the staccato leaving the relative comfort of the machine guns. Cuban Economics Ministry for the there still remains a certain la Cuba relations and sympathizes with himself. " The main title appears. bodily torture that is part of the titude for a creative artist's in with what Fidel did in making The film crew creates an emo EXT. A BARRICADED STREET - daily life of a guerrilla. terpretation of his work. Except the revolution, there is no so tionless man, James Bond-like THESORBONNE - DAY (STOCK) Yet, even when a corporation for Jack Palance (Fidel Castro) phisticated view of revolution in cool in the crunch, but devoid of Another tumult. French students begins a project to make profits who studied the history of US- the film crew. Sharif has said humanity. They don't understand at their barricades pelt a phalanx Che as a man who responds to Twentieth Century Fox counts groups of forty or titty and go of police with stones and bottles. repeatedly, "He failed in life. the crimes he finds around him. on protests from the new left see the movie free —there's no A second title appears. His death was his great success, It's like a group of men blind to and Cuban exiles to neutralize sense in increasing Fox's profits. As successive titles appear, because he accomplished nothing why ghetto blacks become Black each other and help build" their Other appropriate and more closeups of the dead Che are in in his lifetime." The director, Panthers, college students rebel, publicity campaign. Of course imaginative protests are being, tercut with shots of rebe 11 ious Richard Fleischer, apparently im or young men burn draft cards, this copptive strategy could planned on the East Coast. youth throughout the world. mersed in his recent success "Doc who got together at a Hugh Hef- backfire if theater managers be In order to maUre profits (Wherever possible, these scenes tor Doolittle, " assesses: "No one ner-like party, slightly drunk, came so worried about protests Twentieth Century Fox has ex should be drawn from stock foot had ever heard of Che Guevara and decided "Che!" was a cool they don't book the movie. (In ploited and deformed the ideals age.) We see: until he died." Robert Loggia, idea. The dissipation of their New York for instance, gusanos of people who are risking their A. DISSIDENT STUDENTS AT TV star of T. H. E. Cat, who plays lives turns into a sordid joke or. interrupted the play, The Cu futures and in some places such COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in pos an anti-Guevara Cuban exalts, screen. Afterward these people ban Thing, with tear gas and as Bolivia, their lives. Because session of an administration build "Che,.in a way, was something say they are presenting a serious stink bombs.) Because many new of this attempted cooptation we like Vince Lombard!. Jesus Christ, objective study of the life of a ing. leftists will want to sse Che! demand that the profits from the and Vince Lombard!! How's that ? " man who the CIA has assessed to B. A YOUNG MAN AND HIS (in the same spirit that many movie Che I be divided equally Cesare Danova, who played in have had "greater impact on in GIRL on a motor scooter in some went t.o the Green Berets to between the (ELN) Bolivian Ar Cleopatra and is a pro-Guevara ter-American policy than any man European city. Painted on his hoot at John Wayne He-manning my of National Liberation, Cu Major in the film offers: "Che since Joseph Stalin. " They then crash helmet are the words; CHE. i t for Old Glory) It has been ba, and the American new left.. was a bum wandering around Ar- present a version as iheatly pack C. A KNOT OF STUDENTS In s uggested -ftftjcrt-,jgfeople^••flrjjrj&filf-^rij ' --National Media Front the "free sneech" area of the aentina wondering what to do aged as'the latest revolutionary iQmn'unwii 'mnw'wi.1 m.m
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the tact that during the invasion Cubans rallied to the Communist bean. As things stand now you're doomed. Cuba's growth is stunted government and defended them by the Yankees quarantine. You'll be forced-to choose between the selves against attack. The bat plague and cholera*^! can only help you if the revolution is rekin tle at the Bay of Pigs would have dled elsewhere. I've got to start more fires than the Yankee firemen been good Hollywood cinema, ex can put out. cept that it resulted in a victory Rdel has risen impatiently from the bed. Affection wells up in R- which proved the popularity of del. He grasps Che's shoulders with trembling hands. the government. The screen FIDEL: You're more to me than a brother. More than anyone. I beg writer chose instead to concen you...stay beside me. If I should die, I want you to take my place., trate on the Bolivian campaign CHE: (evenly) I'm sorry. My mind's made up. which ended in Che's death. Fidel's emotions spin with the sting of his rejection. His hands fall Later in the movie version, in to his sides. the mountains of Bolivia, Che, FIDEL: The Soviet Ambassador called you a provocateur. I'm begin hardened by defeats, begins to ning to think he was right on target. despise the peasants. He is por CHE: (stiffening) It's pointless to go on like this—— trayed as violating, the essential Che crosses to the door and opens it. Fidel stalks him. revolutionary maxim, berating 268 INT. PENTHOUSE BAR - GROUP SHOT Celia and Ramon are the peasants as "slop-pigs" and standing at the bar in f.g. as Che appears, followed by Fidel. "cowards." It's this hatred of the FIDEL: (shouting) I see it all nowl You want It to be your own peasantsthat leads to the ultimate show I All the way! You don't want my help or counsel - because demise of the guerrilla band in you can't bear being second to anyone! You glory seeker! the movie version—a peasant Che gazes at him thoughtfully, as placid as Fidel is turbulent. Then he turns and kisses Celip's cheek. turns them in to the army. CHE: Good night. Remember to call the doctor. This hatred for the peasants, He turns to Ramon, embracing him. fearful of supporting the guerril CHE: Serve him well. I'll drop you a line —from somewhere. las, contradicts the thoughtful He walksjg few paces across the room, then turns, pointing at Fidel. analysis of his encounters with CHE; And you, comrade — be of good faith...and good health. the peasants found in Che's Bo He exits. Ramon and Celia exchange a troubled glance. livian diary. Fidel wrote of this 269. CLOSEUPj^flDEL He is desolate...his eyes moisten. problem in the introduction to the Che & the Peasants diary, underscoring Che's under standing of the situation: "Che F. CH E AND THE MEN OF ALTO SACO The males are seated in had numerous contacts with the a circle on the dirt.street. Che stands within the circle, addressing peasants. Their character, ex them. His sullen listeners hold lighted candies. At first glance we tremely mistrustful and wary, appear to be witnessing an initiation ritual. didn't surprise him, as he knew CHE: (now in scene) ...What we borrow now will be returned ten their mentality perfectly for hav fold. What you sacrifice to our cause will reappear as bounty for our ing dealt with them on other oc etween them. There fs not much left to be said. families. The richest land in this province will be the prize of those casions, and he knew that pro who join us. longed, patient, and arduous work As Che continues, our roaming camera imparts a dreamlike unreality WT- FEATURING FIDEL He sits slumped on the was required to win them over t o to the scene—as if this inept pitch were addressed to a gathering of aring pajoma bottoms and nothing else. His eyes the cause. But he never harbored deaf mutes. tallow. At the moment of Che's entry he is pour- any doubt that this would be ob 36.1 CHE: Do you fear death? The peasant who risks nothing is the iss. He quickly sets down the glass like a guilty tained in the long run." walking dead: his toil is endless, yet he is already dead, (a beat) ies over to htm. Che wasn't killed because a To learn to hate and strike back at your enemy, is to be rebom. We >k well./i>^? peasant turned him in, as the mo offer you a second life here oh Earth.jt*(pauses, smiles) "."So who will 3. \ The air conditioner brolce down again, vie suggests. Che was killed be be the first to volunteer? Come nowl Don't hang bacteMtWhat is at cause the CIA combined with an tie of pills from the bedstand, glances at the la- stake is your own destiny, (with a gesture) Show me the fists of so- American counterinsurgency effort' it of brandy and benzedrine? • lioorifyf^|l& ^IlllPllilP organized at the highest levels of No one stirs. Che makes a slow three hundred and sixty degree turn. jly. Che tilts Fidels head by lifting his chin, our government utilized its full There seems to be an invisible wall between him and them. t. Let me see your eyes, technological advantoge to trap CHE: You stupid animals! You slop-pigs. Is there not one man in him aside) I didn't call you here for a medical him. ' Major Ralph W. "Pappy" this Village of the Dead? Then sit there and rot — dam you rot 1 Shelton was placed in charge of These lost words reverbate, like a faint echo, into the next scene ; your own doctor. Right away. You look jaun- training Bolivian counterinsur as we: gency forces. US Intelligence 362 CLOSE UP - THE DEAD ONE - ANGLING DOWN - DAY learned that the guerrilla band A flashbulb pops. Then another. Buzzing flies return to the hirsute i pillows, gazing evenly at Che, trying to remain used a Dien Bien Phu oven, an face. Camera pulls back to reveal two photographers seeking appro oven developed by the Vietna priate views of the corpse. Others in the laundry, presumably jour i you're leaving Cuba. For good. mese which gave out no smoke, nalists, are beckoned to the body by Colonel Salazar. Camera pivots, ? Your secret agents? but did emit a concentration of holding Captain Vasquez, who addresses us with hushed intensity. sr confide in me. So you're no longer above scru- heat. Immediately plans were sent CAPT. VASQUEZ: ...He didn't find a single volunteer. And that to criss-cross the entire guerrilla raid set him up for the kill. We'd flushed him from his lair and cor zone using heat-seeking image- ) Well, it's true. I am leaving. My departure rectly guessed his plan: to withdraw to the jungle with his loot and amplifying techniques whicrTcon- then find an escape route to the north... the anger) Don't you owe me an explanation? vert heat into visible light on special high speed emulsion films. o write you a" tetter. Che's Death Through a process of elimination -LE - THE BEDROOM As Celia enters with a cold A-397 CAPT. VASQUEZ: The order to keep you and your men alive of heat generating sources, Che's approaches Rdel. was rescinded by higher authority. band was located. It was then haven't eaten since yesterday. Che fastens his eyes on Vasquez and just stares at him, for an un* only a small job to ensnare the. It makes me sick to look at it. bearable period. Vasquez to fill in the void: band. But, unlike the film's ac im to eat. Just call his doctor. CAPT. VASQUEZ: it's only conjecture on my part, but since the death count, US techniques perfected
Sunday Fun nies FROM PAGE 5 with his work." The company eight are split evenly between ment, a healthy economic struc believes so firmly in that policy downtown, the Northwest side, ture, and a prospering business that they recently suspended Don the West and the North sides. climate. What's good for Mil Olesen because his wife became Of the identified editors and waukee business is good for the involved in public protest demon staffers, 71% have by choice Journal Company; if business in strations. But to carry that policy found Milwaukee an unsatisfact the city is good, more advertis to its logical end would be to ory city in which to live. And ing will be bought, Journal pro Well, kiddies, once again it's time for Christ T. Seraphim, who dis insist that at least some editor another 18% are on the East fits will increase, and more guised as a mild-mannered judge of misdemeaner court fights the never- ial writers live within the city. Side, leaving only 11% for the Journal staffers will be able to ending battle against truth, justice, and The American Way. As Ringler wrote, "Each edi remainder of the city. _ afford suburban living. Several columns ago, we suggested that defendants file affidavits of torial writer must be generally To be fair, the Journal Com But "the newspaper as an in prejudice against Seraphim rather than risk the fate that Christ's mood well informed, but in the tw» pany is sincerely interested in stitution and the publishing com might have in store for them. Recently, a defendant, in court for the plexities of today's problems, ne" the welfare of the city of Mil pany as a property taxpayer" third time, filed a writ against our hero. Seraphim was enraged at works mostly as a specialist in waukee. But their interest is wants only one thing from the the lateness of the motion, and before finally accepting the affidavit assigned fields. Each man has not the concern of individuals city of Milwaukee: profit. That he set bail of $200 on the defendant who had. previously been out with primary and secondary subjects; who feel a commitment or in is the inevitable nature of busi out bail. Christ screamed to the bailiffs, "$200 bail—take him into his responsibility is to become* volvement with the city; rather, ness, and all the good words and custody. " expert in them." it is because, as Perry Hill, motives of editors and writers Seraphim, in his own wierd way, is getting more and more conscious said, "Both the newspaper as an and cartoonists are secondary and, of his public image. Recently he told a defendant who wasn't speak ydti SAlP THAT VOU THOUGHT IT institution and the publishing if necessary, expendable. Car ing loud enough, "Speak up sir, there's a man in the front row who WAS SNAPPED FOR AH OFF- CAMPUS NEWSPAPER? WHAT company as a property taxpayer toonist Bill Sanders is contro- wants to hear everything. The gentleman with the big beard won't ARETHA? _ have their roots in the central versial, but as long as major hear what you have to say, and these children also want to hear!" MOST ARE city..." advertsiers don't threaten to pull Seraphim runs, as he might call it, a taut ship. A defendant plea iRRgSPQKSiSfcE,. 'JUVENtl&SMfc out because of the controversy ded guilty to a charge involving the alleged hitting of another man This $10 million media empire SHEETS/ he creates, he'll be retained. over the head with a beer bottle. When the defendant attempted to in order to exist and grow must CON'T ON PAGE 11 argue with the statement of the complainent, funny judge exploded, rely on a sound city govern "You plead guilty, but you didn't do anything. Take him away until we get some answers." One thing that really gets Christ's back up is a welfare case. A defendant was charged with failure to support his family. It turned From page 2 of the sun. out that the wife had waited three years before bringing charges against "In such places as the Amazon, the Belgian Congo Mexico and the man and had in the meantime lived on county welfare. Seraphim Who, then, ^s the Journal A Puerto Rico, where the calcium intake is less than half of what the was properly enraged. "This is scandalous. Here's a husky able bod editorial writer who is expert body needs, (the reference books say) rickets is virtually unknown." ied man and nobody does anything about it. If I ran my court this in the nature and quality of city And "The fact that Negroes, who normally inhabit tropical areas have way, I'd be courtmartialed, given a fair trial, and maybe shot. " The life? Which writer has been better teeth than white populations is closely qssociated with a more man got 90 days in the House of Correction. assigned the problems of city efficient utilization of their calcium. " Seraphim, eager for publicity of ANY kind told our reporter in open living as his primary subject, cburt, "We got to say something to get in KALEIDOSCOPE. vVe don't and to which suburb does he flee We need sun, clean water and fresh air. get in the Journal. If I'm talking too fast, just raise your hand. " at night? I've been thinking of foods which are cheap and delicious and which Remembering the case of a Commando who got 30 days from Christ for But the problem of suburban can be easily made in large quantities to be taken outside. Suppose allegedly raising his fist in the Black Power symbol, our reporter kept living is not unique with The you have part of a loaf of dried up sandwich bread. Make sure to his hands safely in his pockets. Journal's editorial writers. On cut off any mold. With a sharp knife cut the bread into small cubes Seraphim, also, is an expert on road construction. Noting that it the May 11 "Portrait" page, the and put these together with all the crumbs into a big bowl. was noisy in the courtroom because of construction going on outside, paper lists what they call their In a pan melt 1/4 stick butter or margarine and in it lightly brown funny judge remarked, "They made a mistake—a two hundred thous "Word People." These are the one chopped onion, (size depending on the amount of bread cubes you and dollar waste." Then looking at a Journal reporter who was pre editors, writers and photographers have),a clove garlic (minced), maybe a stick of celery, chopped up, sent in the court he quipped, "You never read about that (in the Jour who are responsible for all news a handful of raisins, a couple of olives or mushrooms thinly sliced, nal). Maybe KALEIDOSCOPE will print it." and features. half a chopped tomato, even shredded meat, a chopped apple, etc. Seraphim recently dismissed manslaughter charges against a defen Of the twenty-six editors for When everything is lightly browned dump the whole mixture, but dant who accidently shot to death a 15-year-old boy who was ille whom addresses could be found ter and all, over the crumbs and sprinkle with plenty of parsley, salt, gally on his property. It was apparent from testimony that no cri in the Milwaukee telephone book , pepper, thyme and other herbs (your choice). Mix well. minal intent was involved in the act, and Seraphim said of the 50- only two live in Milwaukee, and Now you need to think about the kind of liquid you* want to add. year-old black defendant, "Here's a man who has lived in a sensitive both of those are in Milwaukee's Broth made from a beef or chicken boullion cube fs just about the area of our community since 1925 without an arrest. That's a mira East Side. The rest of the edi best. Liquids saved from cans of any vegetables are also very good, culous record. He didn't go down there with anger or malice. I can't tors can be found in such gilded especially corn juice. Sprinkle your liquid by tablespoons over the see punishing him. He's an upstanding citizen. " Seraphim then beamed suburbs as Mequon, Shorewood, crumbs and onions stirring each time and using just enough liquid to to the court, "Maybe they'll say something nice about me in KALEI Glendale, Bayside, Whitefish moisten everything. DOSCOPE for this one.'.' Bay, Wauwatosa, Fox Point,- To expand beyond the amount of dry bread you have, toast some Later that same day, a black woman was charged with theft. - It River Hills and Brown Deer. regular fresh bread and cut into cubes the same way. This can be turned out that she had six children ranging in age from 3 to 12, and Of fifty-seven writers and made in any quantity and the best part is that you don't need a had been SEPARATED from her husband for 17 years. Seraphim asked photographers with identifiable chicken. Grease a baking dish and bake about half an hour at 400 her, "How's that you have six children if you've, been separated for addresses, twenty-two, less than degrees or until it's crusty on top. It takes a short time to make, seventeen years?" She replied, "it's easy." Christ chortled, "Yes, half, live in Milwaukee. And can go anywhere with you, is delicious and uses up dry bread. VERY easy." He went on'to tell the defendant, "I think you ought the majority of those, thirteen, I haven't tried this variation yet, but imagine with me how good to go to jail You've got six illegitimate children. You come back live on the East Side. Only this might be made with strawberries, mangoes, peaches and raisins, tomorrow. I want to know how she had six illegitimate children. I'm one city-dweller lives south of with fruit juice or wine as the liquid sprinkled with fresh lemon and going to sit on you tomorrow morning." Wisconsin Avenue, and the other sugar, or served warm with a dollop of cream. It just might work. Finally, at the end of the day Christ was still thinking about his de cision in the manslaughter case and was concerned that he might get good press from KALEIDOSCOPE on the matter. " He told our reporter, "Please Gall, don't write anything nice about me! I mean, personally we're friends, but I'm begging, and I don't often beg, but please, nothing nice!" Well, Christ, did we say anything nice? Tune in next issue for more humor and snappy remarks from the funniest judge this side of th«s gas chamber. LlliR lOOKS
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From page 7 CHE: What do you take pleasure in, Captain? That uniform? That badge of servility? (a beat) Certainly not in taking care of the needs By Dennis Gall Village of Whitefish Bay from firm of Shellow, Sheflow, and of your own people! How can an educated.. .an enlightened man — There's no joy tonight in White- prosecuting this reporter for sell Coffey, and attorney Robert Frie- serve the lost cause of corrupt politicians, who betray them, starve fish Bay. The mighty Maxwell ing Kaleidoscope without a per bert, who argued the case in them... disinherit therrf! has struck out. mit. Madison, was able to demonstrate CAPT. VASQUEZ: Dr. Guevara, yours is the lost cause. You've trig On May 9, in a 5 to 2 deci Last summer, the Chief of Po that the Village was indeed en gered fifteen revolutions in Latin America and not one of them suc sion, the Wisconsin Supreme Court lice, Orville Melster, refused our gaging in "prior restraint of free ceeded. In your brief contact with my people you've contributed no upheld a ruling by Circuit Judge application for selling permits "for speech. " Robert W. Landry prohibiting the the public good of the Village. " thing but your brutality and arrogance, (a beat) Do you think you We don't imagine that the Vil can cure the sickness of the Universe, with blood and violence? Judge Landry last August ruled lage is too happy about the de Vasquez turns away from Che, stares out the window trying to con that the Municipal Ordinance of cision handed down, but that's Pay trol his annoyance. the Village governing such per alright with us. To paraphrase CHE: Do you think you can cure the illnesses of your people with fear mits as applied to newspapers was an old saying, "You pays your Toilet and repression? What other function does your Army have? in violation of the first and four lawyer and takes your chances." "CAPT. VASQUEZ: Still the Revolutionary! Right to the bitter end! CHICAGO—A bill In the Illi teenth amendments of the U.S. Law and order is a two-edged (beat) Spare me your political theories, Dr. Guevara. I've read your nois legislature to ban pay-toilets Constitution and had "a chilling sword and we hope the Whitefish book. is facing opposition from the man-' effect on the exercise of free Bay Women's club and the other CHE: Then you should have learned something from it. Death is of utacturer of locks for rest-room speech." good citizens who signed peti no consequence? Killing me, won't kill the people's dream? If your doors. The Village had hired high- tions urging Kaleidoscope to be superiors will permit you to think for yourself, you'd open your eyes, Frank Rouse, president of the priced Attorney Maxwell Harriot kept out of the Bay will accept and know, that in twenty years you'll still be defending a lost cause American Con Lock Co. in Paw- of the firm of QuarIes, Harriot, the decision gracefully. For af against young rebels not yet born. And you still won't know what the tucket, R.I. calls the bill "un- and Clemens to present its case. ter all, no one is ever forced to people want! American and un-constitutional." They contended that Kaleidoscope buy anything they don't want! CAPT. VASQUEZ: Dr. Guevara, know there is very little you fear. James McNutt, president of Nik- would be harmful to minors and This issue will be oh sale in But I wonder if you're prepared to face the truth? O-Lok Co. of Indianapolis said that its sale in the Village would the Bay at the Focal Point Book Vasquez suddenly crosses to the outer door and opens it, beckoning that "any hippie who wants to "tend to incite disorderly conduct Store on East Silver Spring Dr. to someone outside. will be able to take a free show in breach of the peace. " Neither Any residents interested i n sell CAPT. VASQUEZ: Old man! Come here— er in your rest room. " Landry nor the Supreme Court ac ing the paper on the street in the An old GOATHERD appears in the doorway, leading two goats. His But the man who introduced the cepted this argument, and Harriot Village can contact us at 332- clothes are in tatters. He shuffles into the schoolroom with his goats, bill, Edward Wolbank of Chicago was unable to convince the high 4992. See you in the streets! leaving his wife and two children at the threshold. is sticking to his guns. He says court that the banning of Kalei In a related matter, on June CAPT. VASQUEZ: Look at him, Guevara - one of your disinherited. that "When Mother Nature calls, doscope was anything other than 23, Judge Decker will rule on A-397 Camera angles down on the Goatherd's feet, which are wrap we must respond and should not out and out censorship. Kalei motions for a new trial for Kal ped in blood-stained rags. CAPT. VASQUEZ' VOICE He walked half doscope was represented by the have to pay for the privilege." eidoscope editor John Kois. Cont. on oaae 11 Apparently, other states are al ready considering similar action ' against pay toilets. Spring Planting
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Goodnight, Mr. Leonard FROM PAGE 8 From page 9 ords, police brutality, or or ing with the times. a day over sharp rocks to turn you in. s^fu As we discussed iast issue, the ganized crime are slow to be A long time Journal staffer 398 OUT Journal is widely disliked, and they know it, and would like to recognized; that most Journal told Kaleidoscope, "There is A-398 REVERSE ANGLE - FEATURING CHE He glances at the Goat do something about it. But busi public service features (Open some doubt the Journal could herd's feet/ then studies his face. ness is good — better than ever, House, Ask Andy, Ask the Jour last long in its present format CAPT. VASQUEZ: Tell me, old man, did we pay you any money for in fact—and so no major changes na I, Ask lone, etc.) appeal if it were faced with some de leading us to his hide-out? are being planned in order to primarily to white middle-class cent competition, but..." GOATHERD: (offended) No. win back the respect Journal suburbanites; and that to Mil But...it always comes back 399 CUT |||* editors want so badly. It would waukee residents the posture of to that. To business. And busi A-399 THREE SHOT - FEATURING THE GOATHERD His rheumy eyes simply be bad business. The Journal often appears arro ness success has little to do with are fixed on Che. j On the other hand, if ad re gant and condescending. With popular or critical success. Of CAPT. VASQUEZ: Then why did you do it? This man came to free venue dipped dramatically, there all that in mind, remember again course, it would be nice to have you. would be rapid and radical that 71% of Journal editors and both, but if it has to be one or GOATHERD: (advancing on Che) Free me? From what? Did any changes in the makeup and edi staffers live in the suburbs, and the other.. .we11, you know, we body ever ask me what I want? (indues Vasquez with a glance) torial outlook of the paper, no it all begins to fit. all have to eat. Ever since you came to these mountains with your guns and shells and matter if all its readers thought The simple fact is that The "Covering government, all the planes, my goats won't give milk, (strokes his goats) You frighten them. it was the greatest newspaper Journal has lost contact with way from Milwaukee's city hall The vultures follow you everywhere. You stink of death. And my in the world. the people it was meant to serve .- to the capitol in Washington, is goats —they won't give milk, (to Che) Yes. I want to be free — from Profit is the primary business Milwaukee is a major city, but the most important thing we do," you and all your kind, (includes Vasquez) Why can't you go away and of business, and for Journal The Journal still talks of small says editor Richard Leonard. Mr. let us live in peace. Company business managers the town old-world charm when in Leonard is a businessman, and to Che glances down at the shoeless Goatherd, and the bloody rags future looks good. Whether or fact about the only small-town a businessman government is still around his feet. His face is expressionless. If he hdd any last min not The Journal legally consti old-world charm to be found is very important. It defines his ute reflections it must have been of a total contempt for the human tutes a monopoly, the fact is in richly appointed restaurants world: tells him how much of race. And goats who wouldn't give milk. that for advertisers there is no that charge $2.75 for a sand his income he can take home, Did the Goatherd represent the sum total of Che's brief and tempes comparable market, and so long wich. how much in taxes he must pay tuous life? as Milwaukee's business com The Journal maintainsa posture for his property, how large his Che struggles to his feet. He makes his way to the door leading to munity remains healthy, the of benevolent paternalism both business may legally grow and the adjoining room. VasqueZ opens the door for him. Che shuffles Journal Company can only grow. within its corporate structure within what boundries it must into the adjoining room without a look at Vasquez or the Goatherd. That is the nature of monopolies. ("...we would not hesitate to operate. Vasquez closes the door and waves the Goatherd out of the schoolroom. And for that reason, and that discipline or transfer a staff On Mr. Leonard's way back The Goatherd leaves with his goats. Vasquez sits in the school teach reason ALONE, it is safe to as member who has impaired his ef to his suburb at night, Milwau er's desk. He looks exhausted. sume that there will be no major fectiveness by public involve kee's new freeway system allows There is a SHOT from the adjoining room followed by four quick bursts. changes in The Journal within ment in some issue," Joseph him to drive fast enough so that Vasquez mops the sweat from his face with a handkerchief. the foreseeable future. Shoquist, managing editor) and he doesn't have to see the vio All of which has nothing to towards the public ("...The lence or smell the smoke. It's do with all those nice words Journal can act entirely as it easy to miss the fact, if you about a free press serving a free sees best for the community," don't have to spend a lot of people. And all of which makes Harry Grant, former Journal time in the streets, that to in the suburb/city problem somewhat president, publisher and editor). creasingly large numbers of peo- irrelevant, but since we were The Journal wraps itself in p I e government, the same go there once... self-righteousness ("Democracy vernment that is so important to Consider first some of the com simply could not function pro Dick Leonard, is becoming irre mon complaints concerning The perly without newspapers," Dick levant, and it's importance Journal: that in dealing with Leonard,editor)and assumes that measured only by the magnitude the problems of living in the its mere existence justifies its of its failures. It's been a rough ***-*.*¥ ******** ** * * * * if * * * city, the paper exhibits a pro motives and manners. The paper day —with deadlines, they all found provincialism that has little proudly proclaims that "Journal are. It's late and sometimes that * Fri, May 23 *//*/ 8 pm* to do with reality; that large policy is the same now as it was suburb seems too far away. But segments of the city's population, in the beginning" (Irwin Maier* a good drink and some sleep and * such as the S pan i sh -speaking chairman of the Board), ana in the morning it should look * South Siders, are ignored; that somehow imagines that it can better. * * city problems such as slum landl remain relevant by not chang Goodnight, Mr. Leonard. * *m Hunger Hike Controversy From page 3 * may just give her a fat lip. action on international problems, ambitious, but surely not for be Lawrence University Appleton The purpose of the Hunger Hike (4) to inspire others to do the ing part of' the international is six-fold; (1) to educate people same, (5) to strengthen the image Communist Conspiracy! MEMORIAL CHAPEL East College Avenue to the needs of world hunger, (2) o f youth, and (6) to unite and * TICKET-: $2.50, 3.50, 4.50. At the door or from Lawrence to collect money to combat hun strengthen the entire community. Florence finishes her May 15 * University Box for reserved seats. (Phone 414 734-8695.) 1 ger, (3) to channel and coordin These goals might be criticized article with the biggest bunch of ate young people into positive for being overly idealistic and sour grapes since Aesop's fox. She * * * + * ** * * * * * * + * * ^ * * * * * * * said, "We've been feeding their (communists and ant i-Amerioan neutrals) hungry in the UN mem ber nations for what?.. .We don't even receive credit for what we jazz it up with the man. HAVE done —the enslaved people of the Captive Nations are never . told how good America has been to them. If children ARE the re- progressive jazz 1AM to 7AM each night ; cipients of any of the money from the Hunger Hike, will they ever be told that the Youth of Ameri ca are their benefactors.. .and that they suffered physical dis ron cuzner comfort, and perhaps disability, in the name of Brotherhood. We doubt it." Florence doesn't seem to realize that in dealing with hunger it's the nutritional value WtOS-li/, of the food that counts —not its J propaganda value. 103.7 If any young people are still interested in the Hunger Hike af ter "Floh's Documentary" (that's
what she calls her mud-slinging) they can find out more informa tion by calling 272-6150 or go ing to the Hike Headquarters at 706 W. Wisconsin Ave, Regis tration forms can still be had at A&P Food Stores also. Perry Muckerheide hopes for a turnout of up to 50,000 Saturday at the Stadium. It starts at 8 am. As for Florence, we suggest that instead of running all over the city looking for Communists she take a good look under her bed. Perry suggests that people sponsor Florence for the Hike. Anyone interested in getting Floh up off the floor and out on the Hike can call 541-4551. The problems of hunger are too im portant to become pawns of either the right or the left. m- safe •&t
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INTRODUCING THE EDITORIAL DRAWINGS OF E. BADAJOS:
the liberals, NYPost columnist whislte on the mail order minis ilies than a live civilian?... Pain Mutray Kempton — who's been ters, Richard Carroll, 26, is a ter Leon Golub invited artists to getting increasingly devoted to reporter for the San Jose (Cal) bring antiwar collages to his stu style over content — has announ News who disapproves of "Phony" dio for a "Mail-in" to the Pen OTIEIttSOEKES ced he'll quit that paper i n the religious degrees partly because tagon. German TV turned up to it for the press. ..Poet Charles By John Wilcock fall. But there are rumors he of his personal ambition to be film the display so Golub took Bukowski ("Notes of a Dirty Old NEW YORK—CBS president Frank was "allowed to resign" when fhe come a chaplain (kill, kill, kill down a nude picture of a man Man") signed with Apple Records. Stanton (who fired the Smothers wishy-washy Post discovered he for Jesus)... About that Brooklyn bearing the word PEACE (sub FUCKMAIL: . Soon as mayoralty Bros.) passed down the word to was about to be convicted of dis man indicted for selling special mitted by Gregory Battcock) be candidate Norman Mailer and Columbia Records to stop advert orderly conduct in the aftermath coffins to parents of kids killed cause it offended them. Last time tising in the dirty, little under Jimmy-the-copBreslingivea press of Chicago. Reporting his con in Vietnam: isn't it amazing how Golub staged a demonstration ground papers. At about the same conference somebody should check viction last week the Post care bereaved suckers will pay almost everybody waited to begin the time, Columbia mailed out a gen out their stand on marijuana. fully pointed out that at the time anything to get the bodies of their march on City Hatl until firemen eral press release boasting about They'll probably lose two-thirds of the offense, "Kepmton was on sons back but won't do anything had finished writing him a sum the success of its phony "Revolu of their fans right away... "In re leave from the Post to attend the to dissuade them from going? mons for overcrowding. tionaries" hype. Enormous sums jecting the findings of the Warren convention as a delegate. " Could it be that a dead 'hero' THE MOVEMENT: No cops in of publicity money were spent Commission it is not necessary to LOSERS: The guy who blew the is more valuable to some fam schools, open admission to col not only on advertising but on accept those of the Garrison leges for everyone, no military "display racks, window streamers probe. If more Americans realised recruitment on campus and jobs and posters." Individual distri this a Congressional investigation and housing for every student who butors hooked-up various promo of the assassination would become want them on graduating or drop tions such as the one in Milwau a possibility" (Kerry Thornley) ping out — these are some of the kee at which a busload of clean- ... Hard Times says the Pentagon demands of the militant High cut high school kids were brought. plans to handle civil disorders by School Students Union. Call in from the suburbs to picket re feeding data about demonstrators 799-2020 for further info... Chi cord stores, bearing such signs as and their tactics into a computer cago moviemaker Ray Craig, 28, "Make Out With Mozart" and which theoretically will predict has transformed an old school bus "Columbia Records Has Soul." their future plans...Sad reflec into a mobile movie theatre, will Such sleazy schemes have help tion on our system of "democracy" head anywhere to show under ed Columbia to win the All-Time that after 25 years the same man, ground and experimental movies Hype Championship despite con Alex Rose, should decide who the ... Dozens of big screens and pro siderable competition; i t stands Liberal party should support. Come jectors tucked awayamongst the convicted by its own words of to think of it that's pretty much trees will be the setting for the commercializing and debasing where Liberals are at isn't it? — Walk-In Film Festival, Central what was once a noble concept. in a world that disappeared a Park Mall, May 23-25. Take For shame, too, on those under quarter o f a century ago... One your films and show 'em, says ground papers which feel it ne can't help feeling sorry (can one?) Claudio Radal (929-1290) who's cessary to emulate the straight for poor Ted Kennedy, heir to determined to keep it informal... press by selling their editorial the Legend and self-destined to columns to such advertisers. NYC's Alternate U. (137 W. 14) rule us all one day. Dogged by MEDIA MIX: Pristine, the cunt seeks instructors to give classes the press everywhere, never un deodorant, has even offered some during its spring term... HELP is charted in his political chores. of the advertising profession. Ad a monthly mag (2 Arundel St., Well, of course, he could get Age carries a letter from San Di London WC2) devoted to people out of politics and into some other ego nominating it as "Advertising with a social conscience. It's job; it would be hard for us to We Can Do Without"., .judging orientation is impossible to des bear it but we'd try. by current TV commercials, Am cribe but it's interesting, attrac- BUS (NON)STOPS: Manhattan erica's major preoccupations are tively produced and unique... bus stops were redistributed two with removing body odors and The Aire ri can Exile in Canada or three to a block and almost frying somewhere; anywhere... (25$ from P.O. Box 759, Station all unmarked so that drivers can Howard Hughes may start a fourth F, Toronto) is a monthly whose whiz by without stopping (with TV network, reports Backstage... title is self-explanatory.. .The the excuse that you're standing Frozen eggs in a carton all ready Disintegration of Form in the Arts, at the wrong place). A secret to.pour into the skillet are being Pentagonism and Obsolete Com agreement with the union so that testmarketed inPennsylvania.YjIn munism are all titles of books re- drivers can cut down on mug Miami, sixpacks are being sold viewed in the Guardian's new gings? Next stage, in the fall, in foil wrapping to keep the supplement, April 26. ..In a mi will be conversion to an exact- drinks cold... Madison Avenue's lieu where everybody seems to fare system — no change given. Smith/Greenland agency getting swap or give away their publica Similarly cabcrivers have ach uptight about reactions to its tions—communication, communi ieved self-determination with their highly-publicized "touching" cation—NYC's War/Peace Report offduty signs which give them the creative sessions wherein a four- told UPS they were sorry but they freedom to pick up or reject member team (two girls,, two couldn't afford to give a free sub whichever fares they want. Gra guys) produce more "personal" scription. Which is why all those dually NYC has become a wil copy by hand-holding and other grant-aided liberals always seem derness in which car-less people intimate contact. Seems that some to be talking only to each other are at the mercy of anybody who people got the idea they're all ...John WiIcock is planning wants to hit on them. fucking each other (on the spon NYC's first daily newsmagazine sor's time)... Excited by its top- A Dutch firm has invented a and needs more backers. notch Memphis Sound show (Get- toilet seat that can be raised by tin' It All Together, WNEW-TV, a foot pedal, a boon for those There's a type of April 24) Metromedia gave a who are too stoned to do it by loser who'salways announcing the breakfast party to advance screen hand. Idemise of something: the type POSTHASTE: Once the darling of CONT. ON PG. 4 [KALEIDOSCOPE- May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 3
resistance:^ :TO^ cwfroot^tiOrtWWkt'h : : ::':'.\j:u^ cc^tir&e'jiwyo^ : : :;: :::^B£:l!w|yJ^ |ihroj^h';:dbort :d^ C>£Wi$^^«S^^ ^^9^^'j^te-:p^^i^L':^ 'i^i^^^^-.'if:-#^^rj}>'%j^^:;j^^A' n- diction also in mec l^r^^ri^jlr^-/^^ ;Tstonce. with prof! t effective weapons the us to the point whe to defuse dissent, Wh I our briainai • d -done ii •* "ra *fcS ma ^e maj the mal ¥ wh rmlilgpmmunifl jesi sting repression. lenge -is a jewjo'niflohjnt- resi stance, to Vevolotto (mtmekmmm*wm ^ . ..L-SsES PAGE 4 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEI Other Scenes - Mailer's Ego Clashes FROM PAGE 2 spew out the condensation... Banks whom he correctly identified as who's been saying "art is dead" generations as well as this one, ing educational institutions (such are a drag but if NYC's welfare being present "for the fun of it. " for god knows how many centuries is heavily promoting its Student real estate .corporations as Col department insisted that recipients After several vehement fuck-you's and his contemporary counterpart Weekly (400,000 circulation and umbia, etc.) religious bodies(the of welfare checks pick 'em up to would-be supporters he thun who dismisses the "underground"" about to "accept" advertising).... slumlord Catholic church, etc.) from mandatory accounts they pro dered against people joining his a s having been submerged under Chicago Tribune took front page and charitable organizations bably wouldn't go on losing a campaign "on ego trips" (his own, an avalanche of publicity and of Editor & Publisher to boast (whose directors pay themselves presumably, being more than million bucks through forgery each commercial exploitation. He's about its poetry contest. First more than the charity) STILL tax enough to cope with), reminisced year.. .The little frustrations about always right — and always stupid. winner ($1000): Archibald Mac- exempt. happily about his speech earlier city life — buses that don't stop, Whenever something new, of real Leish...Time-Life's house mag fyi Overset: Because its Golden in the day at the police academy subway trains whose guards sud value, gets "discovered" on a to be restricted to staffers only Gate Bridge is jammed to capa a more sympathetic audience than denly eject all passengers without wide scale part of its value (that as of next week. Too many leak city with two million more cars the current one, he indicated) explanation, machines and phones of being UNDISCOVERED) is I ost. ages, of internal information... to process each year, San Fran and added that he was on this that absorb coins and fall to work, But there's always a new crop Jerry Agel, who says he's seen cisco may revive the across-the- trip "to see where my ideas lead empty taxies that drive past with coming up — new talent still un- 2001 every day since it opened bay ferries.. .Actors* Equity is de me. " Running mate Jimmy-the- offduty signs—these are the things exploited. Whatever criticisms and is now writing a book about bating what to do about roles that cop Breslin and Jack Newfield, that everybody feels are driving might be leveled at the so-called the film's background.has suspen .demand appearing in the nude the candidates' press attache, them crazy. Now a Stanford U underground (whose lifestlye now ded his monthly paper, Books, when the actor/actresses don't ralied respectively against the psychologist confirms this, in a' seems to be that of the majority) now writes a monthly Realist col want to. There'll always be a Daily News and the NY Post — paper suggesting (reports the NY it still shelters the new, vibrant umn. ..TV talk shows come over place for zophtic amateurs... ; interesting choices which happen Times), "Americans are being anti-statusquo talent, and the as phony because of their physi Countess Maritza's Eeva Lynne to exactly match their individual transformed into potential assas wise seeker after truth senses that cal setup: performers onstage and perfume is a near-duplicate of tastes and intellectual capacities. sins by the powerful pressures of the more sheltered it is, the more the audience facing them, unlike Estee Lauder at half the price... Anita Steckel, who got a little big city living. worthwhile (usually) to seek it a real party where the action LA columnist Jerry Hopkins sent drunk and heckled Mailer, was out. Hence the rebirth of "the emanates from anywhere in the his mailing list a batch of bizarre hauled off into a back room and art scene" —not in the glossy up room. Why the insistence on ads he's answered lately ("Learn Norman Mailer worked over by two goons; a 1 town galleries but once again in showing people only from the Meat Cutting,'.. Join Fuk. „ „ Send kicked off his mayoralty campaign ticketless reporter on the door the lower east side studios, lofts, front? Why not make the sur for Record Cleaning Cloth.... with a rally at the Village Gate was pushed around by another warehouses, church halls, in the roundings informal with the cam Write for Truckdrivers' diction attended by George Plimpton's hood. A few rightwing types, streets, on the Staten Island ferry. era zooming in on whoever's talk ary")... Big thing on inland lakes party crowd and assorted dilet fascist-minded Orson Bean among The art of the idea. Seek and ing? ;vis this summer wl 11 be the 6-foot tantes and sycophants. Targets of them, were in attendance and the ye shall find. New York state republicans, Powerborad, a motor-operated the evening were the NY Times, ugly smell of violence seemed Concrete Poetry Event: May is^ sensing the growing indignation surfboard (about $200)... Census which hasn't been giving Mailer prophetically symptomatic of what the month of the Misspelled Name. about tax-free property," hope to bureau's plan to have computers the attention he demands; Esquire is to come. write press releases should be mag whose money he's been tak Artifacts: The assorted artists head off a revolt by removing the Literary Allusions: Reviewing matched by a computer that will ing uncomplainingly for a decade; and critics who are attacking the exemption from all organizations Portnoy's Complaint ("a case study digest wordy press releases and and his own audience, most of Museum of Modern Art will never that can't fight back, whije leav- CONT. ON PG. 9 make any real progress unless they stop playing ego games and pin point the real enemy: Bates Lowry JlIIjiiiliiM the MOMA's fascistic director/ frontman. He's the most vulner able point of that structure and a concerted together attack could. drive him from his job and put the museum's forces- to route... Twenty-thousand* buses in ten ma jor cities now carry the pretty nothings signed by Peter Max..* Bob Rauschenberg had simulta- . neous openings at LA's Ace and NYC's Castelli galleries with the "carnal clocks" on show being lit up for one four-m i n u t e period* Everybody present applauded.. * Mfke Jagger commissioned Andy Warhol to design Rolling Stones' next album cover. The Movement: How about some national organization — the various groups of priests, veter ans, businessmen against the war. for example — taking up the fight on a federal level to help the various radical teams (Milwaukee, Boston, Washington, etc.) who've broken into draft boards and mu tilated those police-state files? ... New Left Notes warns about a spy project initiated by the in nocently-titled Bureau of Social Science Research Inc. (its direc tors include that renowned Viet- namexpert Ellsworth Bunker). Its mandate is to study "campus un rest" a cover for pinpointing all the radical elements on campus and passing the information along to where it's most needed... Bos ton papers warning everybody about the Mayor's plan to crack- down on hippies this summer... Picketing farmworkers in Pittsburg acquitted of "loitering" charges but ordered by the judge to quit singing (We Shall Overcome) as they stro11...Caroline Coon's emergency agency Release, cur rently handling about 60 grass busts per week in London, needs its counterpart in every city. Send her a buck and ask for info on how Release operates (50a Princedale Rd., London W. 11)... Two comprehensive books being completed on the underground press: one byJEthel Romm in up state NY, the second by OZ publisher Richard Neville in Lon don. Mediamix: More and more schools are "bootlegging" religion says National Review — opening classes with the lord's prayer each morning despite Supreme Court rulings...CBS and NBC battling each other via fullpage ads in the NYTimes as to which has the highest Nielsen "ratings"...NY Times, determined to bore future ^Miiiittiji KALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 5 The Fish are doing virtually no are they jumpin- up and yellin* protest music today," Ed said. like this for?" Hock and Revolution "MacDonald's genius is synthesis, "You were in a whole different "Richard?" Goldstein isn't going to argue are doing really are), Ed is hon and from the left today... " His mood then, weren't you?" asks "Yeah?" over what he considers to be tri est, direct, absolutely Without voice trails off, and for a mo Goldstein. "I have a complaint to regis via I points. "What was your at bullshit. "Goldstein's piece," ment the room sounds full of the "Well I've come from three ter. " titude that day?" he asks. "What he told me recently, "was totally emptiness he was trying to articu years of playing benefits for the December 3rd, 1968. A NY did we rap about?" accurate." late. Revolution!" Workshop i n Nonviolence-spon "You came in," Joe answers, I had come up to Ed's hotel "I think of the Revolution as a I wish I could tell you more sored forum on "Rock and Revo "and you said 'TeJl me about the room to do an interview thing, bunch of people who are going about Country Joe. About his lution. " Country Joe MacDon- revolution.' You kept talking and also to thank him for the to gain control of power," he confusions and his doubts. About ald has just interrupted a discus about 'Revolution.' And I said, check. A couple nights before continues, "and then go ahead his music, and his sense of pain sion between fellow panelists 'I don't think there's a revolu during a brief stop-over in New and do something. Throwing rocks ful irony, and the things that Richi^e Goldstein and Fug Tuli tion. ' I said 'There isn't a Re York enroute to a European tour, through a campus window has as make him laugh. Or about Robin Kupferberg. He has something on volution. '" the Rsh had done a show at the much to do with revolution as and their child, and what they his mind: "Right. I wrote that piece Scene and Ed had taken the bread Mac Do raid foiling down on stage mean to him. Why he gets pissed "Last time we were here (in based on the mood and the at from that gig, divided it straight has to do with art. They're both off, sometimes, at bullshit tike down the middle, and mailed NYC) you came and saw us at titude I got from you when I was done to get a standing ovation. " this article; how he emphathizes checks for $427.50 each to the the Algonquin Hotel, and then there." He doesn't pretend to have any so deeply with those in pain. NY Resistance and the Jerry Ru you wrote an article in the Vil- "You wrote stuff that didn't answers, though. He realizes He knows it's not his revolu bin Defense Fund. lege Voice. Well, the article happen I" that when confronted with the tion unless it understands, and is generally, I felt, gave the feel "That's not true. " You're welcome. It was no times, "there a re two perfectly fighting for, people's basic need ing that we (Barry Melton and I) Finally, the moderator breaks thing. natural responses — throw that to be human. He's sometimes had done something bad, and that in. "I don't know what happen The Fish were spawned in the rock, or go home and double- ashamed of his own inconsisten we had sort of sold out—whatever ed in the hotel room because I bay area of San Francisco, when lock the door. Unfortunately, cies, and feels that if he were 'sold out' means. wasn't there, but the tone that I the Hashbury was giving rise to neither is a revolutionary act." really together, he would know "It's very important to me be got from the article was that you, the.hippies, and dope and flowers Nostalgia also had its place at all the answers. cause, you see, I'm a great be Joe, weren't as in to the 'revo and love and music were being the forum back in December. Bob He's not always sure exactly liever in truth—and you lied in lution' as you had once been. Is given away free in the parks and Fass of WBAI-FM remembered the what message he's trying to con the article. If you remember it that a lie?" streets. Big Brother and the Hold time when "you came up on my vey in his songs. He often feels correctly, we were sitting down, Disillusioned with the revolu ing Company were playing the program, Joe, and for four hours misunderstood. Hell'sAngels' dances, the Grate and we were watching cartoons tion? The concept seems to be I was trying to talk you out of He's tired of the drudgery in ful Dead and the Jefferson Air because that was the only color wilder him. A boast, a cry of calling up the Mayor of Orange his work, and wishes it would plane were playing to the hippies program on that early in the morn despair, or just a statement of burg, South Carolina, where they bring a different-response. He'll in the park, and Joe MacDanald ing. And then we talked about fact? "I am the revolution," he had just had that massacre of the deny it if you tell him he's dis and Barry Melton put a band to i t, and we decided there was a answers. students. You wanted to call illusioned. gether to play Joe's l-Feel-Like- lot of violence in the cartoons. One way to judge a man is by him up at 4:00 o'clock in the A lot of what's going down I'm Fixin'-To-Die Rag at politi "Then there was. some noi se the people he voluntarily keeps morning and ask him, uhhh... these days upsets him. He in cal benefits. Ed had a small re outside, and I walked over to the around him. When other mana what he tought of it. " sists he's as active and as into cord company, and 1,500 copies window and looked down in the gers-to-be were taking business "We did call him up later, things as he ever was. of Fixin'-To-Die Rag b/w Super- streets. There was about, oh, at courses and joining fraternities, Barry, and I. It just pissed him H e can honestly say he's do bird were sold at various anti the most a hundred people, with Ed Denson was "head of 18 dif off" Joe answers, and then-he ing what he can to make the war rallies. Radio Moscow was maybe one sign, and they were ferent political clubs, always changes the subject: "Last time world better. He feels guilty for their only air play for two years. walking down the street, and we running around making speeches, we were in New York to play not doing enough. decided it was probably like a and trying to help keep things Now, of course, they're a top the Fillmore East, we played the He's a great believer in truth. Yippie demonstration or some together" during the Free Speech group: 22 of their last 24 ap worst performance that we've ever He sometimes doesn't believe thing. Then we sat down and I Movement at Berkeley, and later pearances at the 2,700 seat Fill given. It was abominable. It there's a revolution. watched TV again. That's all that he wrote a column for the Ber more East have sold out, and their was really terrible. He is the revolution happened. keley Barb. And while most rock- fourth album for Vanguard (Here "We worked out a new arrange "In the article, 'We heard group managers I've encountered We Go Again) is due to be re ment for Fixin'-To-Die Rag 'cause P.S. It occurs to me, now that chants of 'Dump the Hump.' tend to be greasy, high-pressure leased on May Day. For their you get sick of playing the Fixin'- some of you may actually never Country Joe got up, looked out hype artists, steam-roiling you first concert (with the Fugs, in To-Die Rag all the time. You have heard Country Joe's music. the window, remarked 'Oh, it with verbiage about how their November '65) they got $22 a sing a song about Vietnam and If that is true, panhandle $5 and piece. Now they can easily make must be a Yippie demonstration,' group will be the biggest thing about people getting killed—and immediately go out and buy your- $10,000 or more in one night. drew the blinds, went back, sat since the Beatles(if only the press everybody jumps up an' down! self the |-Feel-Like-Pm-Fixin' Of course, other things have down, and turned the volume up would realize how new and ad After a while you don't know To-Die album on Vanguard (VSD changed too. 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[KALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 9 OTIIER SCENES-LENNON & ONO iN NEW Yonk CiTy FROM PAGE 4 newsdealer at Broadway and 46th in the pathological lifestyles of while/himself. (Jim Spencer in pany's unilateral pull-out of their lack of responsiveness to the pa St. accepts $5 bills, holds them the 'mother' country") Guardian The Amalgamated Holding Co., advertising, in many cases break pers who are paying its bills. up for identification by his friend critic Irwin Silber credits Lenny 50$ from 3035 N. Downer Ave., ing reduced-rate contracts which Look for more movement news at the souvenir shop across the Bruce with creating the climate Milwaukee 53211).. .Catholic sti 11 had months to go... Nei I Dia services to spring up. way... History books will be for that made i t s appearance possi women who want to silently pro mond, who's-made a career out Milwaukee's Kaleidoscope, ced to assess William Westmore ble. .-. How about setting up pre test the Pope's ruling on contra of putting down pot, is at it again with a second edition in Chicago, land as one of history's great lo fab-movie theatres at train sta ception should mail their empty in the first issue of AUM, the plans a third soon in Madison... sers. .. History: a myth commonly tions, bus depots and airports to pill containers to their bishop teenybopper mag out of LA... Reprints of old Oracle pieces and agreed upon (Paul Maag)... Bar show underground movies to wait each month, writes Jim Collins The first issue of Shadows, a new graphics have been reappearing ney Rossett's Grove Press will re ing passengers? asks Nick Zeoti in The Chicago Voice. NYC tabloid, appears this Week in the tabloid Oracle Anthology locate in the booming new loft in Filmmakers Newsletter...... David Peel's Lower East Side (50$ from N. Kingsley, Holly Rockanpop: John Lennon & area around St. Adrian's bar group will wander through the wood, Calif. 90027) and new, but Something Else Press distribut Yoko Ono, inseparable every (where Art D'Lugoff's new off- audience playing at the Detroit similarly-oriented pieces can be ing a new series of "object books" where, will arrive in NYC later Bway theatres will be)...Ameri Rock & Roll Revival scheduled for enjoyed in the Oracle-inspired from Germany, a typical sample this month to give a concert with can born Bob Guccione, who left May30/31 at Michigan State Fair Changes (50$ from P.O. Box being a miniature arsonists kit a "plastic band" (plastic pillars to paint in Paris 15 years ago, is grounds. 4219, San Rafael, Calif. 94903) ($40) complete with matches, and speakers containing tape back to launch the American edi .. .The Great Speckled- Bird (Box kindling wood, dynamite, gaso tracks and equipment). They'll The Underground Press: In the tion of his London magazine, 7946 Station C, Atlanta, Ga. line, etc...A Munich publisher also take a helicopter's eye view wake of Abbie Hoffman's attack Penthouse —Britain's biggest... 30309) is the best paper in the plans to produce a book whose of Manhattan and try to reach as of the too often puritanical, hu The Lion of St. Mark's Place — South... The Free Venice Beach pages are impregnated with jas- many heads of state as possible, morless policies of SDS (but more an o I d faggot who picks up the head (1727 W. Washington, Ve mille perfume... T h e most beau- at the UN, to hand out their particularly its Maoist PL infil hippy beggars on that sleazy block nice, Calif. 90291) is a weekly tifql books in America and con little boxes of acorns to be plan trators) SF's Marvin Garson re takes them home and fucks them tabloid founded to coordinate the ceivably in the world are those ted. Yoko, who lived around news the assault in Good Tiroes/ for a meal and a joint—-gets re fight against LA's plan to kick handset and printed by Jon & Canal Street until a couple of askings "Is SDS Senile?" His cognition in Olympia's best-of out a I I the hippies, bohemians Louise Webb on their own press years ago organizing some mem take-off point is the recent SDS fended by Lennox Raphael's "Che" and poor people so they can fill in Arizona (1009 E. Elm St., orable happenings, is a little ap resolution (barely defeated) to out which he describes as "hogwash" the area, with high-rent apart Tucson, 85719). Now, after in prehensive about coming back as law grass and — inevitably — fink Backstage's senile theatre critic ments. .. EVO's Allen Katzman (47 credible delays and difficulties, bride-of-a-Beatle but the people on dealers. Garson says that LNS Tom Dash writes about other pi Bond St, NYC) fell off a wall their latest work of art—a tri who dug her then will dig her "seems to be an unofficial organ oneering sexual plays (Mrs. War- and broke both his legs. bute to Kenneth Patchen — is now... Should underground papers of SDS, " an accusation last heard ran's Profession, Damaged Goods, ready. Send $6 for a copy; an boycott Columbia recording ar when Marshall Bloom's wing split "We shall seek to combine in Ghosts) which were "decades unexcelled gift for any biblio tists? That's the question to be from LNS and went to Massachu our national life power with mo ahead of their time" but seems un phile. ..It's nice of the fuzz/to voted on by 80 member-papers of setts. LNS is coming in for in rality, technique with ethics, ac able to recognize a landmark until burn/those fields of grass, god the Underground Press Syndicate creasing criticism from the move tion with meditation"— Dr. Zakir ten years afterwards... Hugo Koch likes to take a drag/once in a in response to the record com ment for its single-mindedness and Husain, India's first president^ (3 21 E. 85 St.) and Fred Phol- who died last week. man (438 E. 89 St.) have claimed Overset: Three-thousand firms ownership of the entire universe the biggest being Bell Telephone excepting the earth and meteors. Labs, will benefit from the con The Movement: There's plenty tracts generated by the biggest of historical precedent for arm es business deal in history —setting to rise up and start killing their up the ABM system. That's what officers instead of the enemy — a 11 the fuss is about not the ar especially during a revolution. Be Unique. guable question of American se Most enlisted men know very well curity. If the plan goes thru ok who THEIR enemy is...What do it will automatically prompt res you think the government should ponses from the "enemy;" then if do to improve the world around Play Your Friends The Original the system works there'll be no you? This question and others limit to future military budgets have been circulated to 25,000 — and if it doesn't work there people around the world by Dr. London Cast Recording Of HAlR won't be anybody left around to Harold Foster, a geography pro complain about it.. .That organi fessor at British Columbia's Uni (If You Have No Friends That's Your Problem) zation called Business Executives versity of Vittorid, who says that Move for Vietnam Peace (901 N. "we are wasting our greatest re Howard St., Baltimore, Md. source — human inspiration. "... 21201) sounds like a good group If you want to work with a the for the movement to hit on for atre group right from the i>e- some funds... You wanna buy some g inn ing, painting and construct cows to keep as a tax loss? Call ing the theatre itself, check out (212) 799-5300...Many British NYC's Assembly Theatre Workshop pubs will be freed from their de which just moved into an enor pendence on a single brewer ("a mous old abandoned warehouse... tied house" is the traditional term) Bill Beckman's new paper, The under proposed new licensing re Bolinas Hit (25$ from Box 242, gulations which still don't free Bolinas, Calif. 94924) reproduces British drinkers from the tyranny one piece of a 24-pqrt j igsaw of 11 pm closing time...Blind puzzle in each issue. In case you didn't know itthere's a British production of "Hair" rtaw running in London's West End. The cast of the London Production is bright, clever and exciting — and they're very together. In England the Original London Cast Recording is outselling the Broadway Cast LP. Those few Americans who have heard the British album have been very impressed. If you can find a copy of the English LP of "Hair,'' listen to it. You'll be pleasantly surprised. And you can use the jacket as a poster. PAGE 10 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEI |MAID LISTENING The maid is listening at the door. She hears the bones of dead men rub against each other in the grave like the sound of tires on wet highways. Or the faint whisper of fire The poets appearing on this page appeared and read at the Resist as the cigar end ance Read-I n Saturday, May 3, is nourished. . in Milwaukee's Highland Meth The small pet-sized odist Church. The reading, which Pterodactyl at her feet drew a thousand poetry-freeks wants to help. from all over Wisconsin, helped raise money for the defense of the Mi Iwaukee 14. Guest poetry editor this issue is Jennie Orvino, who coordinated the Resistance Read-In. I Lie Down To Snarf Out A Vision from The Hashish Poems Eye-brain washed free at last, Torrential Freak Rains over a skull marked with pocks. Fingers slid into a kettle of membranes. Screech of an owl over a graveyard so corny —yet it happens! BARBARA GIBS ONI Owl over the graves 1 The screaming meat! The screaming meat! How one aches in the Terminal Bone marrow Dreams flicker through the sleeping brain to waken the dawn shaking our back brain BEAST RATTLES I lie down in silence to watch the candles of the-night *3M flicker in my brain -*t- To pull the smoke fur of a forlorn hookah into our pale pulsing lungs. To leap in a vast panic out of the brine whence we came & slime across a marge opening to a heath — the moist bodies slither 4 in the heather. The sounds of a Fiend dancing in our lungs. In minor functions we fail but in matters of Grace & Absolution we live under Ra & move under the suasion of the soft fingers of Ra The Eye is in the Hookah. ROBERT W.YI *m. IT IS THE OLD PAIN In New York the steel rods lie all night awake at the sides of streets rolled up near the concrete. Leaving Appomatox, Traveller is moving through the stumpy fields, among mosquitoes in the shape of men, We are in pain; it is the old pain — I hear Hoover crying in his sleep, and sooty trees kneel in Spanish churches, lighting the candies with their branches... I know ma ins tree t stores- that are glad to be burned out, and depressed fish, toads that do not believe in God, an old bug in Oregon who is bitter and disillusioned. A highway in Wyoming glows in moonlight like a lost doll... There are mothers of five children who long to gobble down poisonous spiders, Creamery floors complain they cannot choose their God, and are flooded down at njght with water; J*|iis2 There is a donkey who does not believe in the corporations... GALWAY KINNECL KALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 11 BEYOND THE PRESIDENCY June 6, 1968 (for Robert Bly) Beginning my fortieth year as Robert Kennedy sleeps beyond the presidency jail of us dream of doctors like women in long labor. blues for dreamers: to eugene (Perkins) & gus (Bertha) How shall we bear our spirit /a hard/gentle pair of Black poet/critics through bodyguards? rebel laughter What last rite in a real rebel's grin will open our arms to love? goes/went round & round to the records end Can you see, brother can you see raw-eyed dreamers without laughing I MAY ILLUMINATION without making any noise to wake them up? Thunder streams from the airport wetting Can you see our ears. The sky is falling in. Yesterday trying to re-shift you stood leggy among crowds, rock your blue/brown feet rhythms beating your brains out, wine waiting for a drink soaking your knees, pointing a finger from a little brown jug at me. Yah I You sure know how to play. sweating Your mouth made "hello" over stone bodies like real live brothers to Little Me waiting wrapped in cold, in the west steam pouring from nose-holes. Can you whistle, brother, Yes, I kept nodding: I don't want anything. can you humm God you turned fast. Run away, gingerbread man,| while dancing as fast as you can, you can. Look out I might on blue/brown glass catch you, though, like last night's dream MORGAN GIBSON Can you gather together of us rising in a glass elevator closer than wild oats ("To the top" I glowed) up the skin closer together of Marshall Field, buying things than pepper together, speaking again. Hey do you than salt still have that ring I gave you? closer than the Afro nods of angel heads separated from one another by praise in praise of something not themselves not of themselves not from themselves not for themselves not even wondering with their nodding heads: are there no wide-awake brothers in heavens? Can you gather salt? can you pick it out of a brother's sweat of a brother's wound of a brother's eye instead of begging hand outs at a bar from unsteady sleep-sitters **&&' can you gather salt? Can you see can you see yourself dreaming? dreaming sleep-sitters' dreams dreams loud idle not taking care of business dreams where white ashen-plated bodies sprawl IVAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND on black sheets where everything's :D SANDERS ON FIRE The old watch: their Can you laugh, brother thick eyes can you dig the heat puff and foreclose by the moon. The young, heads of flame-fire trailed by the beginnings of necks, of gun-fire shiver, of bomb-fire in the guarantee they shall be bodies. of. any fire as it burns In the frog pong your beautiful fashioned the vapor trail of a SAC bomber creeps, Afro hair your big lips I hear its drone, drifting, high up your loud where is it really at-tongue in immaculate ozone. in your big loud fashionable mouth as it burns on top of your hip talking And I hear, hip walking un-ready stride coming over the hills, America singing, dancing away her varied carols I hear: away crack of deputies' rifles practicing their aim on stray dogs from truly simple eloquent speech at night, that takes care of business sput of cattleprod, without so many words TV groaning at the smells of the human body, taking care curses of the soldier as he poisons, burns, grinds, and stabs to think the rice of the world, clearly/ruthlessly deep/ly with open mouth, crying strong, hysterical curses. as well as BLACK is that your fine Afro-shiki frame And by rice paddies in Asia on fire? bones Can you laugh, now, brother wearing a few shadows with your loud fashioned rebel's mouth walk down a dirt road, smashed [ that goes/went bloodsuckers on their heel, knowing round & round the flesh a man throws down in the sunshine to the record's end dogs shall eat and the flesh that is upthrown in the air shall be seized by birds, shoulder blades smooth, unmarked by old feather holes, hands rive red by blue, erratic wanderings of the blood, eyes crinkled up as they gaze up at the drifting sun that gives us our lives, seed dazzled over the footbattered blaze of the earth. JAMES CUNNINGHAM PAGE 6 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPEi IKALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 7 The Resurrection and Rehabilitation of Che Guevara by 20th Century Foot? By Jeffrey Shero Berkeley campus, applauding a the fact that during the invasion "In culture, capitalism has young speaker. 255 INT. PENTHOUSE SUITE- SHOOTING TOWARD FOYER-NIGHT Cubans rallied to the Communist given all that it had to give and bean. As things stand now you're doomed. Cuba's growth is stunted government and defended them D. A FORMATION OF RED As Che enters, brushing past two of Fidel's bodyguards. He looks all that remains of it is the fore by the Yankees quarantine. You'll be forced to choose between the selves against attack. The bat GUARDS IN PEKING. All the tense and angry. Camera moves with Che and widens to take in Fi taste of a bad smelling corpse... " plague and cholera. I can only help you if the revolution is rekin tle at the Bay of Pigs would have youths hold little red books, and del, Raul, Juan Almeida, Dorticos, Ramon, Rojas, A RUSSIAN GEN — Che Guevara dled elsewhere. I've got to start more fires than the Yankee firemen been good Hollywood cinema, ex they chant in unison a slogan of ERAL and the SOVIET AMBASSADOR. Man and Socialism in Cuba Chairman Mao. can put out. cept that it resulted in a victory A buffet table is laden with cold cuts, canapes, and caviar. The Twentieth Century Fox's sense Rdel has risen impatiently from the bed. Affection wells up in fi which proved the popularity of E. A TATTERED AND PEELING Soviet Ambassador raises a tumbler. of the box office hasn't dimin de I. He grasps Che's shoulders with trembling hands. the government. The screen WALL POSTER with Che's tatter SOVIET AMBASSADOR: To world peace. ished. Last year they produced ed portrait on it. A girl cyclist FIDEL: You're more to me than a brother. More than anyone. I beg writer chose instead to concen Their quarrels have always been private. But this time, despite Fi such money-makers as "Valley of pauses to gaze at the poster. you. ..stay beside me. If I should die, I want you to take my place., trate on the Bolivian campaign del's attempt to placate him —Che abandons his usual self-control. the Dolls," "Boston Strangler," CHE: (evenly) I'm sorry. My mind's made up. which ended in Che's death. F. -OUT CHE: Why wasn't I told of this meeting? I was deliberately exclu and "Planet of the Apes. " Now Fidel's emotions spin with the sting of his rejection. His hands fall Later in the movie version, in G. As the LAST TITLE FADES: ded, wasn't I? with Amerikan society rotting to his sides. the mountains of Bolivia, Che, CLOSE ON AN AMERICAN FIDEL: Let's discuss it when we're alone. around it, Fox, seated in two FIDEL: The Soviet Ambassador called you a provocateur. I'm begin hardened by defeats, begins to GIRL - DAY She is standing in CHE: So you backed down and agreed to let them take back their capitals of decay—New York and ning to think he was right on target. despise the peasants. He is por the portals of some campus build missiles? Hollywood — understands that re CHE: (stiffening) It's pointless to go on like this trayed as violating the essential ing, it doesn't matter where. FIDEL: Relax. Pour yourself a drink. We'll talk later. volution contains a bit of spicy Che crosses to the door and opens it. Fidel stalks him. revolutionary maxim, berating There are books under her arm Fidel crosses to the buffet table, to the Soviet Ambassador's side and glamour. It's obvious. Kids used 268 INT. PENTHOUSE BAR - GROUP SHOT Celia and Ramon are the peasants as "slop-pigs" and and on her breast a large button spoons a large gob of caviar on a piece of toast and begins to eat. to dream of being baseball stars standing at the bar in f.g. as Che appears, followed by Fidel. "cowards. " It's this hatred of the withthe words: MAKE LOVE NOT CHE: Why the caviar? What's there to celebrate? (to Soviet Am or FBI agents; now they grow their FIDEL: (shouting) I see it all now! You want it to be your own peasants that leads to the ultimate WAR. She is lovely and her eyes bassador) Why aren't our Russian comrades eating crow? Doesn't it hair long and want to be rock show! All the way! You don't want my help or counsel - because demise of the guerrilla band in brim with tears as she faces the sicken you that your cowardly leader — that cravenly bastard Krushchev stars or revolutionaries. This new you can't bear being second to anyone! You glory seeker! the movie version—a peasant camera, addressing an unseen lis fell to his knees and rolled over at Kennedy's bluff? tener. Che gazes at him thoughtfully, as placid as Fidel is turbulent. Then FIDEL: That's enough, Che! he turns and kisses Celia's cheek. turns them in to the army. The script of the movie Che I THE GIRL: I can't believe it. CHE: (unheeding) You think the world can ever forget that you So CHE: Good night. Remember to call the doctor. This hatred for the peasants, was held under the tightest se Che isn't really dead...is he? viet shits sold your honor along with Cuba? Do you think your mil- He turns to Ramon, embracing him. fearful of supporting the guerril curity by Twentieth Century Fox. Even as the film begins the po lion-dollar-a-day-handout to Fidel, can ever erase your shame? la s; contradicts the thoughtful Only 200 copies were printed, CHE: Serve him well, I'll drop you a line — from somewhere. litical conditions which moved 256 OUT analysis of his encounters with each numbered and assigned to He walks a few paces across the room, then turns, pointing at Fidel. Che, the doctor, to become Che, 257 ATTOTHER ANGLE - FAVORING THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR the peasants found in Che's Bo a particular individual i n the CHE: And you, comrade — be of good faith. ..and good health. the revolutionary thinker and gu Tense and tight-lipped, he downs his Vodka. livian diary. Fidel wrote of this production. One Fox official, He exits. Ramon and Celia exchange a troubled glance. errilla leader, are ignored. .In SOVIET AMBASSADOR: (addressing Fidel) If the Soviet Government problem in the introduction to the disgusted with the bastardiza 269 CLOSEUP - FIDEL He is desolate...his eyes moisten. stead of portraying a man with the are down on their knees, eating crow, if indeed we fear anybody, it diary, underscoring Che's under tion of Che's life, zeroxed a Che & the Peasants highest sense of morality who is your earless Doctor Guevara — who doesn't mind setting off a holo standing of the situation: "Che copy and mailed it to RAT. We F. CHE AND THE MEN OF ALTO SACO The males are seated in could not ignore the need of the caust, that neither the United States or my Government seeks — a full had numerous contacts with the print excerpts from the script a circle on the dirt street. Che stands within the circle, addressing impoverished, Che is transformed scale nuclear war. (a pause) I must inform you, on behalf of my peasants. Their character, ex along with other information so them. His sullen listeners hold lighted candles. At first glance we into an adventurer — the existen Government, that our aid to Cuba will be discontinued at once—(mov tremely mistrustful and wary, that the potential audience for appear to be witnessing an initiation ritual. tial man who must have the ex ing towards exit)—unless you find a way to silence this provocateur. didn't surprise him, as he knew this movie can view it with real CHE: (now in scene) ...What we borrow now will be returned ten citement of battle to test himself. DORTICOS: Mr. Ambassador! As President of Cuba, please accept their mentality perfectly for hav objectivity. The movie begins quoting Che: fold. What you sacrifice to our cause will reappear as bounty for our our apologies. And I must state emphatically that Dr. Guevara does deep silence Falls between them. There is not much left to be said. ing dealt with them on other oc families. The richest land in this province will be the prize of those "Wherever death may surprise not speak for this country. casions, and he knew that pro us... " but leaves out the begin who join us. trend doesn't worry corporate film The stunned Cubans stare at Che. Fidel has his arm around the Am Che's Departure longed, patient,and arduous work ning of the quote which would As Che continues, our roaming camera imparts a dreamlike unreality -makers. As long as the subject bassador's shoulder accompanying him to the exit, followed by the Rus 266 INT. BEDROOM - FEATURING FIDEL He sits slumped on the was required to win them over to prove to be too unsettling for to the scene —as if this inept pitch were addressed to a gathering of can be glamorized, the reality sian General. edge of his bed, wearing pajama bottoms and nothing else. His eyes the cause. But he never harbored American audiences. The first deaf mutes. transformed into "Hollywood," Che pours himself a coca-cola and sits down. The rest gaze stonily are glazed, his skin sallow. At the moment of Che's entry he is pour any doubt that this would be ob line Che wrote was "Our every 361 CHE: Do you fear death? The peasant who risks nothing is the film producers are happy. at Che. He lights a cigar, ignoring them and waits for Rdel to re ing brandy into a glass. He quickly sets down the glass like a guilty tained in the long run." action is a battle cry against im walking dead: his toil is endless, yet he is already dead, (a beat) "Che!" begins in rapid fire. enter the room. youngster. Che comes over to him. Che wasn't killed because a perialism and a call for the peo To learn to hate and strike back at your enemy, is to be reborn. We Scenes of youth rebellion are in Rdel re-enters the room. Che rises at once. CHE: You don't look well. peasant turned him in, as the mo ple's unity against the great en offer you a second life here on Earth, (pauses, smiles) So who will terspersed with shots of Che's CHE: Fidel - don't capitulate. The Yankees are bluffing. FIDEL: I can't sleep. The air conditioner broke down again. vie suggests. Che was killed be emy of mankind, the United States be the first to volunteer? Come now! Don't hang back. What is at body, intercut with the picture FIDEL: They're not bluffing. They've enough nuclear-armed bombers Che picks up a bottle of pills from the bedstand, glances at the la cause the CIA combined with an of America. Wherever death may stake is your own destiny, (with a gesture) Show me the fists of so credits. The style is documentary. in the air right now to reduce this island to cinders. bel and puts it down. American counterinsurgency effort surprise us... " lidarity! The script reads: CHE: We've got two hundred thousand militia to take the missiles organized at the highest levels of CHE: Still on a diet of brandy and benzedrine? No one stirs. Che makes a slow three hundred and sixty degree turn. FADE IN For his portrayal of Che, Omar away from the Russians. This is our one chance to achieve parity with our government utilized its full Rdel makes no reply. Che tilts Fidels head by lifting his chin. There seems to be an invisible wall between him and them. INT. SCHOOLROOM - HIGU- Sharif read voluminously and gives the imperialists. technological advantage to trap CHE: Face the light. Let me see your eyes. CHE: You stupid animals! You slop-pigs. Is there not one man in ERAS - HIGH ANGLE SHOT - Che credit for pricking his social FIDEL: A decision has been made. The debate is over. him. Major Ralph W. "Pappy" FIDEL: (brushing him aside) I didn't call you here for a medical this Village of the Dead? Then sit there and rot — dam you rot! DAY conscience: "I read newspapers CHE: Have you all become Russian puppets? Shelton was placed in charge of checkup. These last words reverbate, like a faint echo, into the next scene The room is no more than a now. " In an interview Sharif of t ra i n i n g Bolivian counterinsur- DORTICOS: It isn't bad enough that you drain our economy support CHE: Then bring in your own doctor. Right away. You look jaun as we: hut, devoid of furniture except fers this insight into Che, "I think gency forces. US intelligence ing guerrilla activities in countries that broke off diplomatic relations diced. 362 CLOSE UP - THE DEAD ONE - ANGLING DOWN - DAY for a rude table. Che Guevara's I know more about Che than an y- learned that the guerrilla band with us — FIDEL: Later. A flashbulb pops. Then another. Buzzing flies return to the hirsute bullet-ridden body lies on the ta one. He is basically a man who used a Dien Bien Phu oven, an Che walks away toward the buffet table. Dorticos follows him talk He lies back on the pillows, gazing evenly at Che, trying to remain face. Camera pulls back to reveal two photographers seeking appro ble. The room is dark, but a wanted to put his life in danger. oven developed by the Vietna ing at his back. calm. priate views of the corpse. Others in the laundry, presumably jour beam of light from one small win He is almost like Lawrence of mese which gave out no smoke, DORTICOS: —now you threaten the only source of income we have — FIDEL: They tell me you're leaving Cuba. For good. nalists, are beckoned to the body by Colonel Salazar. Camera pivots, dow falls across Che's face. As Arabia... He was a cerebral per but did emit a concentration of the Soviet Union. We are in a state of financial crisis! And that's CHE: Who are they? Your secret agents? holding Captain Vasquez, who addresses us with hushed intensity. camera moves in slowly on that son living out of his brain. It is heat. Immediatelyplans were sent your contribution to Cuba, Major Guevara. FIDEL: You no longer confide in me. So you're no longer above scru CAPT. VASQUEZ: ...He didn't find a single volunteer. And that face, we hear softly: difficult for an actor to do a man to criss-cross the entire guerrilla Che has picked up a sandwich. He whirls on him, dropping the tiny. raid set him up for the kill. We'd flushed him from his lair and cor CHE'S VOICE without emotions on the screen. " zone using heat-seeking image- sandwich. CHE: (aftera pause) Well, it's true. I am leaving. My departure rectly guessed his plan: to withdraw to the jungle with his loot and Wherever death may surprise us, Contrast this to the real Che amplifying techniques which con CHE: And what the hell is your contribution, Dorticos? To fly into is overdue. then find an escape route to the north... it will be welcome, provided that who wrote, "Let me say, at the Havana after we've spilled our blood. ..and organize the anti-Che cli FIDEL: (fights back fhe anger) Don't you owe me an explanation? vert heat into visible light on this, our battle cry, reach some risk of appearing ridiculous, that special high speed emulsion films. que. Well you can stop plotting. If you're the best President Cuba CHE: I was going to write you a letter. Che's Death .receptive ear... CUT TO: the true revolutionary is guided Through a process of elimination has to offer —Cuba is in a hell of a crisis! I didn't fight for Cuba to 267 ANOTHER ANGLE - THE BEDROOM As Celia enters with a cold A-397 CAPT. VASQUEZ: The order to keep you and your men alive EXT. A SQUARE - WEST BER by strong feelings of love. It is of heat generating sources, Che's turn it into a hog trough for a bunch of sleazy politicians! I've had meci on a tray and approaches Fidel. was rescinded by higher authority. LIN - LONG SHOT - DAY impossible to think of an authen band was located. It was then enough of Cuba! CELIA: Here... you haven't eaten since yesterday. Che fastens his eyes on Vasquez and just stares at him, for an un (STOCK) tic revolutionary without this only a small job to ensnare the Dorticos, enraged, pulls out a revolver. FIDEL: (turns away) It makes me sick to look at it. bearable period. Vasquez to fill in the void: A student orator is exhorting mas quality. " band. But, unlike the film's ac DORTICOS: You swine! CHE: Don't force him to eat. Just call his doctor. CAPT. VASQUEZ: It's only conjecture on my part, but since the death sed student demonstrators. We are Che believed that a man must count, US techniques perfected CHE: (taunting him) Goon, shoot! Shoot you bastard! You'll ne Celia nods and exits. When she is gone: penalty's been abolished in Bolivia, they prefer not to give you a trial, engulfed in a wave of sound as live his beliefs. He left the re in Vietnam were responsible, not ver get a better chance— FIDEL: You won't tell me because you think I'll stop you. an open forum, the young rebels roar. volution i n Cuba to begin anew a hostile peasantry. Fidel moves swiftly between the two men, but not before Che has CHE: I told you so often, Fidel, Cuba was just the first step. When CHE: (very quietly) I expect no justice from your courts or any mercy HEAD CLOSEUP - CHE in Bolivia with the hope of What Twentieth Century Fox has wrested the pistol away from Dorticos and spat full in his face. Raul we lost the missiles Cuba lost its promise and excitement for me. from you. Pale, serene in death. The tu spreading the movement from his attempted is to create a saleable and Juan Almeida drag the enraged Dorticos from the room. FIDEL: I need you now more than ever, Che. In the name of our CAPT. VASQUEZ: Dr. Guevara, I take no pleasure in the orders I mult fades. CHE'S VOICE...that mountain base to nearby Argen product which doesn't threaten The other guests leave quietly. martyred comrades...! ask you not to desert us. received. another hand stretch out to take tina, Paraguay, Peru and Chile. the cozy assumptions of its audi A-257 FIDEL AND CHE Che tosses the gun on the couch and crosses CHE: Fidel, let's be frank with each other. You used the Party to Che tilts his head at the arrogant angle and studies the officer. up weapons and that other men Even if he wasn't killed, the to the window, his back to Rdel. Che stares out the window. A get here. You want to build socialism on one flea speck in the Carib ence. A corporation will sell take u p weapons and that other choice of opening another guer Cont. on page 9 anything which makes profits, in men come forward to intone our rilla front in the Andes meant cluding revolution. The men in funeral dirge with the staccato leaving the relative comfort of the side the corporate structure from Cuban Economics Ministry for the machine guns. there still remains a certain la Cuba relations and sympathizes with himself. " miracle in dish washing, and with Che reacts like a madman during the closest cooperation in reality. If Che is portrayed with little actors to screen writers must be bodily torture that is part of the The main title appears. titude for a creative artist's in with what Fidel did in making The film crew creates an emo just as much honesty. • the Cuban Missile crisis, raging Che was Cuba's chief liason with emotion, and Castro as a typical made aware of this goal — first to daily life of a guerrilla. EXT. A BARRICADED STREET - terpretation of his work. Except the revolution, there is no so tionless man, James Bond-like In Hollywood^ part of this for at Fidel for allowing the Russians other revolutionary movements. Latin American dictator, then the make money for the company, se THESORBONNE - DAY (STOCK) Yet, even when a corporation for Jack Pa lance (Fidel Castro) phisticated view of revolution In cool in the crunch, but devoid of mula is sexy girls. Che gets his to withdraw their missiles, call Secretly he went on a mission to questions of the US economic cond to express their creative in Another tumult. French students begins a project to make profits who studied the history of US- the film crew. Sharif has said humanity. They don't understand offers, but he doesn't partake, ing the Soviet Ambassador a shit, the Congo to support Lummba for blockade of Cuba need never be sights as men. The smartest, those at their barricades pelt a phalanx r Che as a man who responds to In the script, Tania, girl revo and screaming at President Dor ces; he organized a training school asked. If Fox presented Fidel most aware of the changes going Twentieth Century Fox counts groups of forty or titty and go of police with stones and bottles. repeatedly, "He failed in life. the crimes he finds around him. lutionary Linda Marsh, fresh from ticos: "I didn't turn Cuba into of guerrillas in Cuba; and he and Che as attempting the eco on in this society, have the high on protests from the new left see the movie free—there's no A second title appears. His death was his great success, It's like a group of men blind to Mod Squad, pulls up before Che's a hog trough for a sleezy poli worked carefully with Fidel pre nomic restructuring of Cuba and est values. Their understanding and Cuban exiles to neutralize sense in increasing Fox's profits. As successive titles appear, because he accomplished nothing why ghetto blacks become Black La Paz hotel. In Bolivia she lost tician. " Because Fidel stands paring the forces that were to lo possessed by t h e dream that the represents the future marketing each other and help build their Other appropriate and more closeups of the dead Che are in in his lifetime." The director, Panthers, college students rebel, her life fighting With the guer ready during the crisis, Che is cate themselves in Bolivia. The energies of all Latin American possibilities for the corporation. publicity campaign. Of course imaginative protests are being tercut with shots of rebellious Richard Fleischer, apparently im or young men burn draft cards, rillas. In Hollywood, she's a lay. dismayed and decides Fidel is a carefully thought through strate nations could be released for their As long as a man doesn't value this copptive strategy could planned on the East Coast. youth throughout the world. mersed in his recent success "Doc who got together at a Hugh Hef- The script reads: coward, a sell-out to the world gy of creating guerrilla foci like own benefit, then the whole Uni his integrity too highly, there's backfire if theater managers be In order to make profits (Wherever possible, these scenes tor Doolittle, " assesses: "No one ner-IIke party, slightly drunk, The girl looks up at him with revolution. At this point he is Vietnam throughout the world in ted States policy in Latin Ameri plenty of money for a 11. The came s o worried about protests Twentieth Century Fox has ex should be drawn from stock foot had ever heard of Che Guevara and decided "Che!" was a cool tender expectation. through with Cuba. order that each uprising wouldn't ca would by implication be call good men within the structure they don't book the movie. (In ploited and deformed the ideals age.) We see: until he died." Robert Loggia, idea. The dissipation of their TANIA: Shall I come up to your have to face the full force of ed into question. The movie of either get out, or are slowly cor New York for instance, gusanos of people who are risking their rupted until they cynically spit A. DISSIDENT STUDENTS AT TV star of T. H. E. Cat, who plays lives turns into a sordid joke or, room? Later? In the following scene Che American counterinsurgency re course supresses the critical poli interrupted the play, The Cu futures and in some places such out their distaste at the bar every COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in pos an anti-Guevara Cuban exalts, screen. Afterward these people CHE: No. comes to Fidel to tell him of his sulted from the plans of the best tical questions involved and flits ban Thing, with tear gas and as Bolivia, their lives. Because evening while creating rationali session of an administration build "Che,-in a way, was something say they are presenting a serious TANIA: You think it's too risky? departure and finds him in bed, revolutionary minds. Che's op on to other superficial distortions. stink bombs.) Because many new of this attempted cooptation we zations for their work. Jack Pa- ing. like Vince Lombardi. Jesus Christ, objective study of the life of a CHE: No. It's just...self-in dissipated, gulping brandy and eration relied on the deepest One distortion committed by om- leftists will want to see Che! demand that the profits from the lance probably has convinced him B. A YOUNG MAN AND HIS and Vince Lombardi! How's that? " man who the CIA has assessed to dulgent. popping benzedrine. It's clear imaginable trust, as well as un mission is the Bay of Pigs attack (in the same spirit that many movie Che! be divided equally self that his work in portraying a GIRL on a motor scooter in some Cesare Danova, who played in have had "greater impact on in To the lack of insight into Che that Fidel has fallen into disre failing cooperation. The movie's sponsored by the United States. went to the Green Berets to between the (ELN) Bolivian Ar degenerate Castro is somehow European city. Painted on his Cleopatra and is a pro-Guevara ter-American policy than any man the man is added a horrendous pair, an indecisive shell of his wasted and raving Fidel Castro This, one of the key incidents hoot at John Wayne He-manning my of National Liberation, Cu positive. Omar Sharif and the crash helmet are the words; CHE. Major in the film offers: "Che since Joseph Stalin." They then script by Michael Wilson, (see fonner self, Che is almost con has no relation to the man who in shaping Cuba's thinking, isn't it for Old Glory) it has been ba, and the American new left. others don't seem thoughtful C. A KNOT OF STUDENTS in was a bum wandering around Ar- present a version as neatly pack accompanying excerpts) which to temptuous. shaped Cuba's revolutionary for even mentioned. If it were, the suggested that people gather in — National Media Front enough to care. the "free speech" area of the gentina wondering what to do aged as the latest revolutionary tally distorts history. Wilson's Che and Fidel, of course, had eign policy. movie would have to deal with PAGE 6 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE IKALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 7 ar •• 5" 5 c -• -n 5_ -4 ' w C r v» - r ?ts 7^ "2. * o 3 "5. to 2 8. o * "H_ -• L => ^ 3* < < 5" ~ © 3" T> ""'. GL r ^ 1 Q > g. a 8x* 3 - o * *>. ** 3 •*< 5tc3 c o o a_ 5 > -l a CT -a- a 3 ^ , r. . ^"o c S -» ca 3- «•_ JL v; -* <* o_ 5" -r, CU so; 3 Q , « O "" „= a. ^ 3 - c a a o j: 5-: °?- U> - m "* Q ~^. '-: a y" 5 3 °~ a " Sz 3 ; S S i already classics and the book itse •^g-fuse bombs pub- iishe'ishecd in especially for ad vanced raf idea and association riff and inter b JOOA 40' change and gaming elegance; a storehouse of ex-. p you off on tangents of your c f "-J*""" is the Joe P h^d I *5 fhree different- wavs; no< experience are lefl 3d. 9 Travel Dialogues" area stone Ti salted" is the first 'after-day commentai Hardin. "Ebbtide coytng voices and enough gootf the lonesco habit forevp' Its time for you to cti LES OLSON' The Maxim js Poem« srmol a iy accepted, 25 yea; U 3 £ PAGE 10 May 23 - June 5, 1969 KALEIDOSCOPE .KALEIDOSCOPE May 23 - June 5, 1969 PAGE 11 BEYOND THE PRESIDENCY June 6, 1968 (for Robert Bly) Beginning my fortieth year as Robert Kennedy sleeps beyond the presidency all of us dream of doctors like women in long labor. blues for dreamers: to eugene (Perkins) & gus (Bertha) /a hard/gentle pair of Black poet/critics How shall we bear our spirit through bodyguards? ebel laughter What last rite n a real rebel grin I will open our arms to love? goes/went round & round to the records end Can you see, brother can you see raw-eyed dreamers without laughing I MAY ILLUMINATION without making any noise to wake them up? Thunder streams from the airport wetting Can you see our ears. The sky is falling in. Yesterday trying to re-shift you stood leggy among crowds, rock your blue/brown feet rhythms beating your brains out, wine waiting for a drink soaking your knees, pointing a finger from a little brown jug at me. Yah! You sure know how to play. sweating Your mouth made "hello" over stone bodies like real live brothers to Little Me waiting wrapped in cold, in the west steam pouring from nose-holes. Can you whistle, brother, Yes, I kept nodding: I don't want anything. can you humm God you turned fast. Run away, gingerbread man,| while dancing as fast as you can, you can. Look out I might on blue/brown glass catch you, though, like last night's dream MORGAN GIBSON Can you gather together of us rising in a glass elevator closer than wild oats ("To the top" I glowed) up the skin closer together of Marshall Field, buying things than pepper together, speaking again. Hey do you than salt still have that ring I gave you? closer than the Afro nods of angel heads separated from one another by praise in praise of something not themselves not of themselves not from themselves not for themselves not even wondering with their nodding heads: are there no wide-awake brothers in heavens? Can you gather salt? can you pick it out of a brother's sweat of a brother's wound The sounds of a Fiend of a brother's eye dancing in our lungs. instead of begging hand outs In minor functions at a bar from unsteady we fail sleep-sitters but in matters of Grace can you gather salt? & Absolution Can you see we live under Ra can you see yourself & move under the dreaming? suasion of the soft fingers of Ra dreaming sleep-sitters' dreams dreams The Eye is in the Hookah. loud idle not taking care of business dreams where white ashen-plated bodies sprawl |VAPOR TRAIL REFLECTED IN THE FROG POND on black sheets where everything's 1 ON FIRE The old watch: their :D SANDERS Can you laugh, brother thick eyes can you dig the heat puff and foreclose by the moon. The young, heads of flame-fire trailed by the beginnings of necks, of gun-fire shiver, of bomb-fire in the guarantee they shall be bodies. of any fire as it burns In the frog pong your beautiful fashioned the vapor trail of a SAC bomber creeps, Afro hair your big lips I hear its drone, drifting, high up your loud where is it really at-tongue in immaculate ozone. in your big loud fashionable mouth as it burns on top of your hip talking And I hear, T IS THE OLD PAIN hip walking un-ready stride coming over the hills, America singing, dancing away her varied carols I hear: In New York the steel rods lie all night away crack of deputies' rifles practicing their aim on stray dogs awake at the sides of streets from truly simple eloquent speech at night, rolled up near the concrete. that takes care of business sput of cattle prod, Leaving Appomatox, Traveller is moving without so many words TV groaning at the smells of the human body, through the stumpy fields, among mosquitoes in the shape of men. taking care curses of the soldier as he poisons, burns, grinds, and stabs We are i n pain; to think the rice of the world, it is the old pain — clearly/ruthlessly deep/ly with open mouth, crying strong, hysterical curses. I hear Hoover crying in his sleep, as well and sooty trees kneel in Spanish churches, lighting the candles as BLACK with their branches... is that your fine Afro-shiki frame And by rice paddies in Asia on fire? bones know ma ins tree t stores that are glad to be burned out, Can you laugh, now, brother wearing a few shadows and depressed fish, toads that do not believe in God, with your loud fashioned rebel's mouth walk down a dirt road, smashed an old bug in Oregon who is bitter and disillusioned. that goes/went bloodsuckers on their heel, knowing A highway in Wyoming glows in moonlight like a lost doll... round & round the flesh a man throws down in the sunshine There are mothers of five children who long to gobble down to the record's end dogs shall eat poisonous spiders, and the flesh that is upthrown in the air shall be seized by birds, Creamery floors complain they cannot choose shoulder blades smooth, unmarked by old feather holes, their God, and are flooded down at njght with water; hands rive red There is a donkey who does not believe in the corporations... by blue, erratic wanderings of the blood, eyes crinkled up GALWAY KINNELL as they gaze up at the drifting sun that gives us our lives, seed dazzled over the footbattered blaze of the earth. JAMES CUNNINGHAM