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Macy McFarland

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Description Phillip Frazer and Macy Mcfarland (eds.), High Times, High Times Pty Ltd, Carlton, 1(4), November 1971, 40p. Contents: Bob Daly - Chipps n' Hips game cover Small notes Letters Ron Cobb - U.S. Marshal! Drop It!! Phillip Frazer - having a ball for the revolution Kool Aid Chris Hector - A child's garden of revolution Mick Jagger interview John Kasaipwalova - Extracts from Reluctant Flame, Port Moresby, Nuigini Robert Crumb - Stones Again cartoon Phillip Frazer - Amerika - state of a nation Ron Cobb cartoon John Hawkes and Lorraine - Our South American trip Cheap thrills to come - things to look forward to in '72, if they get through customs... Prison letters Posters Records Ermesto Conzales Bermejo & Luc Chessex - Che: his stay on earth Advertisments John Thomas cartoon

Publisher High Times Pty Ltd, Carlton, 40p

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stash f M b a c k u p s GAME INSTRUCTIONS WITHIN PLEASE NOTE! The man responsible for High Times' CHIPPS 'n' HIPS is Bob Daly. Inspiration for this game came from Gilbert Shelton's American game FEDS 'n' HEADS. All parts to this game are contained on pages 1,2, 19,20,21,22, & 40. We feel it a befitting as well as an amusing past-time for evenings with friends too stoned to go out yet too straight to rave.

1. Before starting, you will need one DICE, a TOKEN for each player (any number can play) and $100 per player, plus several hundred dollars for the bank, in fake or real MONEY — in denominations of ones, fives, tens and twenties. You can make your own money out of pieces of paper or you can get everything you need by ripping off a monopoly set. 2. The WINNER is the player who, moving his token the number shown on the dice in any direction (except on one-way streets), man­ ages to SCORE (collect) one pound of GRASS and get back HOME with it. Keep track of your scores with paper clips, matches, or, if you're into it, real ozs. 3. Grass (weed, hemp, marijuana, etc.) is acquired by landing directly on a numbered space. You may BUY up to as many ounces as indicated by the number. To find how much you will PAY per ounce, roll the dice again twice and pay that amount in dollars. 4. One player has to adopt the role of FAT BANKER He holds all the money not in play. Players start out at home with $100. When­ ever you land on or pass through home thereafter, you may collect $50 from the Fat Banker. At this time you may also STASH whatever grass you have, which then may no longer be taken from you by any means. 5. If you land on the same space as another player, he has to give you one of his ounces. 6. If you land in JAIL, you can get out free on your next turn if you roll a six. Otherwise it wiii cost you,$50 or five ozs.

OPTIONAL 7. After 6 throws of the dice in a row, any player is allowed to call 'Smash the System'. At this point all players exchange positions and this provides a non competition basis for the game.

HT2 the law enforcers. been fired through a side window of With no less than 10 university the building. They were alleged to and underground publications have been found armed with a being wisked from view, threat­ shotgun, ammunition and four a m ened with the burden of various petrol bombs. They have been charges, it would seem likely ordered to pay $560 costs to that the squeeze was on. Yet Honeywell. AUSTRALIA cases getting passed along to the judicial branch don't seem to be Draft resistor Gary Cook jailed illiciting such excited responses. in Perth, may be transferred to a For example, the "Oh Calcutta' day release centre by labor West blitz ended in charges against the Australian premier Tonkin. It is cast being dropped and the pro­ believed this has been delayed ducer and director being fined by the current political situation $20 each. On the only one of in that state. If it takes place it the obscenity trials to be resolved means that Cook will go out to Lots Wife editor David Dunstan work returning to the centre was acquited and all charges each night. The premier is reported were dismissed. to be keeping the plan quiet to Perhaps there is hope we are forestall criticism. Understandably seeing a precedent where the multitude of other cases pend­ ing receive the same treatment DID HEA D S and the judicial end keeps its head above the enforcement's Z O O IT ? paranoia. An outburst recently by the local straight press was headlined something like this: DRUG PORNO CRAZED HIPPIES MUTILATE ANIMALS. The story told of FREE TH E PROHIBITION how rabbits and hens in a small Lucky Melbourne is at this zoo in New England had been FESTIVAL moment being protected by those dismembered and killed by Since Labor Day, 1971 there have auditors of human liberties. persons unknown. The owner of been 2 free festivals held at a farm The police have declared war the zoo drawing the obvious con­ owned by the Nutwood Rug called against pornography and the clusions pointed out it could only Ourimbah. These festivals were un­ news agents and book shops have been done by dope fiends. publicised by any popular means so bold as to display this public The follow-up which ran one of promotion using an ancient enemy. As Detective Sargent paragraph in the papers that technique called 'word of mouth'. Walters explains: "We want to bothered to print it was buried Both festivals encorporated a protect the mum who takes her in the back pages and revealed unity of freedom: free entrance, son or daughter to town and is that the culprits were three sons free room, free food and free confronted by pubic hair and of policemen, fancy! refreshments, what there was of penis." (Kids might begin to them. believe there are such things) The organisers of these festivals ARM ED LOVE see these festivals as vital in a clut­ Nestled in the suburb of Surry tered head world of cons, rip- G AO L B A IT Hills, Sydney, there is a house offs and hip capitalism. Accord­ called 'Spartacus'. A red flag waves ing to Jeff Cantor, whose energies Also in Melbourne, a total of from the balcony and on the wall went into the last one, they are eight Victorians are now in gaol is a poster bearing the likeness of to provide a few moments when from crimes politically motivated. a very stoned Mr. Zig-Zag and the people are asked to get together Three of them are serving prison words: for no other reason than to enjoy. sentences resulting from demon­ ARMED LOVE More festivals are planned in strations against the Springboks. To live we must love the near future, with the pos- A fourth, Albert Langer, was To love we must survive ib ility of becoming once a month. gaoled for 18 months on charges To survive we must fight Keep your ears open. of incitinq a May Day crowd to 'Spartacus' .issault special branch cop, Bob Is there a sense of rising militance, Larkins. an impatience of people who have COURTS The latest four were gaoled recently waited too long? The war goes on, for 12 months on charges of unlaw­ the persecution continues, today's N'COPS ful and malicious damage to the political activist is tomorrows Drug offices of Honeywell in St. Kilda Squad victim, as our numbers stead­ The judicial system seems to Rd on June 30th, 1970. They ily increase, the machinery of state be having a bit of difficu lty were arrested outside Honeywell becomes more efficient in our op­ keeping up with their brothers late at night after a shotgun had pression.

HT3 week you'll fill out a form, and include THE COSMOS SHALL NOTES with it your attempts to find work. Thinking about learning farming? AUSTRALIA CONTD ARTIFICIAL FOOD DEPRESSING If you scoff at food freaks as alarmists, Something is happening to Australia and INTERNATIONAL at least firm ly fix in your mind that the the rest of the world. Most young people food you buy 99% of the time is tainted have had it thrown at them by older peo­ as summarized and reprinted from with more than one chemical, and then ple in critique of their affluent ways. It Ramparts remember what it looks like because goes under many names which describe pretty soon it w ill be 99% chemical! its degree: credit squeeze, repression, The main reason is that each new ad­ etc. But when it comes down to hard ditive creates a new line for the chemicals fact, and an unlikeable word, it's called PAKISTAN industry, and these additives are usually depression. cheaper to make than the real thing, not The Department of Labor and National to mention cheaper to freight (the orange Service has reported that at the end of WHY juice concentrate in those little cans, for September, 63,679 people were un- instance, is citric acid, calcium phosphate, emplpyed, representing 1.16 per cent sodium citrate, hydrogenated vegetable of the total work force. This may mean NO-ONE oils, BHA (preservative) with artificial nothing to those who are still employed. flavoring and colouring). "Convenience But it is usual in this part of the year for (u p th e re ) foods" (as they're known in the food the unemployment figures to drop, industry) also last longer, and all of this prior to the usual rush when young means more profits (certainly not lower people leave schools and universities for CARES prices!) work. When the figures are seasonally The problem of the East Pakistanis is According to Daniel Zwerdling, a free­ adjusted, unemployment has risen from not just that most people can't care about lance journalist who has been researching 65,000 in April to 84,000 in September. plagues and starvation unless they can see the food industry, "perhaps the biggest What is more disturbing — and it forms it. It's power politics at work. revolution in food is just beginning; the a unique guide to the employment East Bengal, or East Pakistan, was joined spun soy protein, a bland, tasteless creature situation — is that for every one with West Pakistan in 1946 because these of industry research which every additive unfilled vacancy, there are two persons two areas of the Indian subcontinent had in existence can turn into something res­ unemployed. a common religion (Muslim). They hap­ embling meat, vegetables, almost any­ Last September 1970 there were 47, pened to be separated by 1000 miles of thing! One pound of isolated soy protein 725 unemployed, or about 20,000 less India, a different culture and a different costs only 30 cents dry - but when it's than this year. language, but the creation of Pakistan was hydrated, pumped with water, oil, flav­ This situation, of course, is repeated very valuable for the rich and powerful orings and other chemicals it'sthree times in other western countries. For instance, rulers in the western section. Ever since the size. Replace tomato mixtures with in Canada, a much more disturbing 1946 West Pakistan has held political pow­ soy products "and save up to 30 per cent,' percentage of total work force shows er and has drained the East of all its rel­ boasts and industry ad. over seven per cent unemployed. And atively rich resources, giving almost nothinc Mr. Zwerdling winds up with this advice of particular interest the figure soars in return in the form of improved social to those of us who would rather spend to over 12 per cent for workers under conditions. time eating good food than pouring over 25 years of age. There were no elections for years until statistics on Weetbix and rats...... Unfortunately the Dept of Labor and student agitation and workers' strikes *D on't eat foods with artificial colors Industry does not issue statistics for forced one late last year. Naturally the ( I would certainly stay away from syn­ each age group. But it is interesting to Awani League, which supports a separate thetic colors," says Lenderberg). be guided by the figures given for juniors nation for the East (Bangla Desh), won *D on't eat bakery products, especially or those under 21 years of age. 90% of the votes in the East and an overall bread, made with bleached flour. Go to Actual figures show only 2,266 school majority in the country. This simply didn't a good local bakery or make your own. leavers unemployed. But on seasonally appeal to the government and military and *Avoid dehydrated and other "conven­ adjusted figures, this peaks to 12,021, so we have the massacres and the current with another 100,000 due to be looking ience" foods like boxed mashed potatoes, military occupation of Bangla Desh. dry packaged soups and imitation Beef for work at the end of th is year. While the remains of the Awami League Stroganoff. The closest you'll come to Overall, there are 19,824 juniors (under pathetically calls on the UN for help, the real food is some vegetable and beef 21) out of work or about 30 per cent of superpowers are more concerned with powder. the total unemployed. This is compared wooing the dictators of West Pakistan by *D on't eat packaged snacks or breakfast to 14 thousand September 1970 and 12 outdoing each other on military aid! cereals. thousand September 1969. Catch 22 — no-one Up There is going to *Don't eat imitation foods—from imit­ What this means is that you may be care about you until you're a real nation, ation orange juice to non-dairy creamers collecting unemployment benefits very but you won't throw off the occupation to soy protein products. Soy foods are a soon. It means that the Government will army and become a real nation until the pay you a maximum of $10 (adult, single, tricky area. It's true, as General Foods superpowers Up There care about you. tax free) from which you must pay rent, and Worthington, the two biggest pro­ So Bangla Desh shapes up as yet another ducers, point out, that soy products con- eat, live, as well as look for work. Every Vietnam rerun.

HT4 tain as much protein as real meat. But petitive rule from two power groups: to enjoy large slabs of political, social and that's only part of the story. To taste managers and the local Party leaders, now economic privilege. like meat (or vegetables) the soy isolates the three groups run Revolutionary Com­ must be smothered and pumped with mittees in a three-way partnership. But perhpas the most impressive impact every synthetic additive known. And Schools and universities were the most on visiting China is the fact ttrat, of all the furthermore, Dr. Mayer warns, "When disrupted institutions during the Revolut­ "third world" countries, China has excel­ we replace natural foods with synthetic ion. Red Guards mostly came from the led in curing disease, hunger, and over­ protein substitutes, we lose many trace schools anyway, and the reaction to their coming the degraded, oppressed mentality minerals and vitamins. We don't know "excesses" was criticism of their over- of a population used to colonial rule and everything about this area, so we're in theoretical approach. The result is that exploitation. a transition period that has serious primary and secondary education has now Gittings concludes: "Life, in short, is not dangers." been cut to nine years, with six weeks of too bad in post-Cultural Revolutionary *Stay away from products which contain every year given over to work in factories China, though it might yet be better. This sacrifices: Eating real meats and poultry, or on farms (to maintain the connection in itself is enough to make China-in com­ and more fresh fruits and vegetables, means between theory and practice, rather than parison with the rest of the developing making dinner w ill take 30 minutes instead teach agricultural methods.) world - the big story of the postwar decades. of 15. After school, every teenager has to spend What Mao and his colleagues are trying at least two years as a worker, peasant or to do - to give an entire nation of seven CHINA soldier before becoming eligible for college million a uniquely socialist "world outlook" or university. Thousands of ex Red Guard* - must make China the story of the are relearning their approach by working century." THE STORY on farms. Throughout the education system the emphasis is on the collective OF search for knowledge, rather than on THE competition and the exam system. Making money Inside the Party, politics is obviously still being played. The same theory-prac­ China CENTURY tice question dominates the internal power The new US policy to China, by the way, struggle, but it is probably wrong to see The recent bullshit about the Death of is not the result of a sudden conversion of this as a power struggle as we know it, Chairman Mao (which was so like the Richard Nixon, nor even of his need to beaause almost all the "politicians" believe Paul McCartney death a few years back) pull something pretty heavy out of the in the same goal. points up the total lack of understanding hat in order to win the next election. western reporters have for China. Nixon's front-man Henry Kissinger (who One expert who spent last April touring is stage-managing the China trip) has Finally, the PLA (People's Liberation China has given a brief insight into life always been close to the man who has Army) remains the biggest, and most out on the farms, in the factories, and all wanted China "open" for years — Rock­ evident national organisation. While the over (John Gittings, Ramparts, August efeller. Having poured millions over the 1971). rank and file and several levels of the heir achy do spend as much of their time decades into China research groups, Here's our potted summary of Gitting's growing their own food, reading political Rockefeller wants to reap the rewards in impressions: selling to those 700 million new consumers. philosophy, and helping old ladies, as they The Cultural Revolution was the outbreak Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company and do shooting things, the upper levels seem of tensions that developed over the eternal First National City Bank used to be the bureaucracy-versus-the-people clash. The largest US business interest in China. And bureaucrats (who came to be represented that brings up another good reason for the by the now disgraced Liu Shao-Ch'i) were Nixon turnabout on China,,..oil. There's not prepared to endanger both their own an oil-rush in progress in Asian waters, and positions, and the improved results from that's the best reason yet to get the Vietnam the agricultural sector by cracking down war over with and get down to the real on anti-socialist tendencies. Communes business of carving up that wealth among that were producing more than they needed the US giants currently competing for were either enjoying their excess product­ "rights" off various US puppet govern­ ion themselves or engaging in mini­ ments (south Vietnam and the Philip­ capitalist techniques like selling their pines). excess for profits. Meanwhile, the American hippie table- Mao and the Red Guards were dedicated tennis player who made such a hit in to curing these tendencies by explainining Peking (and is currently featuring in the ultimate dangers of the competitive Chinese propaganda posters!), told Rolling ethics. Peasant communes have been Stone magazine that the best thing he got decentralised so that, as much as possible out of his trip to China was "material their efforts are directed to doing all their things". He's opening a nationwide chain own production, and consumption. PLA on the move recently in South of table-tennis schools on the strength of The factory workers are now running China monitored by Hong Kong the publicity. their own factories, to a degree. Whereas television. factories used to be run by a kind of com­

HT5 Berkeley is a start. And look at Cambridge "but you pretend it works if you ever want SMALL NOTES Massachusetts. Someonelike Daniel EfIsberg to get o u t." the underground could change it and could win. " The State of California claims that homo­ compliments of A NS He said, however, that it is still meaning­ sexuality is a disease so Atascadero is a less to work for candidates on the national hospital to cure this disease, but inmates They’re zoom ing level. He has made public his desire to see (patients) say it should be called a concen­ another Chicago affect the national pol­ tration camp. Inmates are involuntarily itics at the Republican convention in 7 2 "com m itted" there by judges to be treated in on us as it did to Humphry in r68. for homosexuality. Many have never been The reason for the new short haircut: convicted of a crime but they are kept at "Long hair doesn't have the bite of Atascadero until the hospital staff feels rejecting American values that it had two they are cured. years ago. Now it's an affectation." Tharunka Jim ’s m om After the news of Jim Morrison's tragic co m es d e a n death was announced, a Washington Post reporter called up his mother, Mrs. Some years back, Sydney police installed Sydney vice squad has received a most Morrison, who lives in Arlington, Virginia. a battery of cameras in the inner city area frustrating document. It is a petition signed "Do you have any comment about the to watch traffic. The idea was that if a by 230 students and staff admitting they death of your son?" asked the reporter. traffic jam occured, the cameras would helped produce or distribute an allegedly "Is my son dead?" asked JVIom Morrison. record it and a computer operated traf­ obscene issue of Tharunka, the University The reporter was taken aback that his own fic light system would change so that the of NSW publication, and an accompanying mother hadn't heard. He prepared for an jam was relieved. manual titled "SEX". outpouring of grief. Other uses soon presented themselves to Neither publication was authorised by "Well, as far as I'm concerned" continued various police branches including special publisher or printer (in much the same the Lizard King's Mom, "he died six years branch. Soon they were watching demon­ way as Thor) and the vice squad has been ago when he took o ff his pants in front of strations and demonstrators. The Town up against it trying to charge someone. the audience." Hall heirachy was not too pleased about So 230 free people sent them the petition She hung up. one camera across the street from their to make it easier. offices. One said he would never open Tharunka this year has been an excellent production, each issue devoted to one the blinds on his office again. I AM A Now in Mount Vernon, New York, a theme, including Christianity, apartheid, marijuana cultivation, anti-psychiatry, number of low-light-level cameras have been erected to keep 24 hour watch on black psychedelics, and food. The offending and other oppressed people. Like Sydney's issue was titled "Fam ily issue" and was cameras, they are operated by remote a companion to the handbook "SEX,':. control from a police station and have "S E X " was a local adaption of the little AFTER FORTY YEARS OF BUILDING zoom lenses with a viewing range of more red schoolbook, originally produced in UP A SUCCESSFUL LEGAL PRACTICE than one mile. It has been noted from this Denmark and later translated in England, AND SEVERAL WISE INVESTMENTS latest experiment on people watching that which is designed to remove repression of AND THIRTY YEARS OF FAITHFUL the zoom lenses might possibly be used sexual knowledge for children. A list of AND UNQUESTIONING ALLIEGANCE its contents show its style: the first fuck, for lip reading. TO MY PARTY'S POLICIES I AM NOW, fucking and the male orgasm, male mastur­ Did anyone see 2001 ? IN THE TWILIGHT YEARS BEFORE bation, fucking and the female orgasm, SENILITY WILLING TO ASSUME female masturbation, contraception, THE TASK OF RUNNING THE pregnancy and abortion, c ** t diseases, Dear hairless AFFAIRS OF MY COUNTRY' cock diseases, and little red schoolbook information on subjects like doctors. PROTECTING ON THE WAY EVERY A bbie THING I AM AND OWN. Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader and well- known revolutionary clown has re-emerged Homo hotpoint I WILL ALWAYS THINK ALONG THE with a new political line and a short haircut PARTY LINES THAT HAVE PROVED The author of "Steal this Book" (banned There is a hospital in California, USA POPULAR WITH OUR VOTERS OVER in Australia) closely cropped his hair at a which treates homosexuality with torture. PAST DECADES. university speech in New Jersey recently "They attach an electrode to your dick. as a symbol of his/ejection of hip culture Then they turn on a projector and show MY ARM IS CROOKED, READY TO and is now telling audiences to work for you pornographic pictures of males. Every RECEIVE WHICHEVER PORTFOLIO social and political revolution but he i< time you get a hard on, they give you a SHALL COME MY WAY. QUALIFIED BY also urging people to register and vote strong electric shock," said gay activist NONE, I SHALL BE GUIDED BY least at the local level. Denver Roberts. ADVISORS AND PARTY DECISION. Roberts just got out of Atascadero State in thpC|a?e®e- t0WI?s' Wlt** 1 recent chang< in the laws, it makes a lot of sense to e Hospital. For three years he endured tor­ THE COUNTRY IS IN MY HANDS. gage in elective politics as an experimei tures which were supposed to cure his home It s possible that radicals would win. sexuality. "It doesn't work," says Roberts, Ed Nimmervoll

HT6 Then when it turns out to be against in arms, claiming this much electrical the law to print the solution to the great charge will ruin great masses of land. Not LETTERS dope rip-off it almost frustrates one into only will it destroy flora and fauna it will ending it all. create great risks of electricution for any­ Dear Editor, one so stupid to pick up a log during the A few pensive moments ago I read Smoking For Peace, rain. your violation of the law ‘almost’ article Now the interesting possibility stems on how to grow grass and though what Cobey Walsh around the fact that this North American was printed was passable in interest, what Queensland base needs a counter-part in the Southern wasn’t printed was what would have been Hemisphere and New Zealand wouldn’t of great value. Dear Sirs, have it. Is Tasmania in for a shock????? It so often occurs to me, when about A very startling possibility has snuck to shell out $40 for a block of hash which into my imagination which I felt I would Pessimisticly, bears a strong resemblance to a match- share with you — it might be worth inves­ stick, that while I am paying $40, some tigation. Mr. H. McLean body is making $30. It is well known America is deeply into Tasmania I have yet to met a dealer who is willing devouring Tasmania with its Omega base. to equal the value of profit he makes with What isn’t known is that the American the mythical value of doing a good thing government has purchased half of Wis­ for the community. And worse yet, every consin to install a sighting base whose ‘person’ who I’ve known to become a power comes from great lengths of elect­ LETTERS ‘dealer’ inevitably comes down with the rical wire underground. The few ecologists Box 77 paranoid syndrome. in America to know about this base are up Carlton, Victoria 3053

HT7 HT8 Boys & Girls are taught what's expected of them in the Grand Game of Life, Love and S*x. LOVE

The boy is taught that his life w ill not be complete without that One Great Love that makes his marriage, his home his life's w o rk.... and his Responsibility. The Right Woman must be (or seem to be) smaller, dumber, poorer and weaker than he is. For the term of his natural life he will be responsible for her, and any little ones they produce. He must bear this responsibility (like a man) and in return he gets.... her body, which has been the subject of the greatest ad. campaign in the western world. Along w ith his house, car, golf clubs , etc., this body is his property.

The Girl is taught that she must find her man like a trailer needs a car. Her life is simple for she has one asset and one alone — and all it gets in the way of direct advertising is a load of propaganda about special deodorants...

Love can exist between a person and anything else (a dog, a fantasy, another part of that person, a house another person etc.) Love can develop between two people whose minds have somehow meshed. An attraction can be through an ability to excite and fu lfil each other on so many levels... your sense of humor sets up mutually fulfilling flashes of communication (with words, eyes, thoughts); your bodies fascinate each other either because you each fu lfil some previously conceived conception of a desirable body, or because other empathies between you are so strong you each redefine your desireable-body image to make yourselves mutually fulfilling. This charade is founded on a series of complex myths... Love can last any length of time at all.

HT9 MALE The Myth: SEXUALITY The Myth: Men are supposed to want sex more, need it more, enjoy it more and do it more. This suggests that men have more frenziable nerve-endings on and in their bodies, but an average clitoris (picture it) has seven times the nerve endings of an average cock, or something.

FEMALE SEXUALITY The Myth: Is the corollary of male sexuality (above). This is the out­ come of the paranoid male's male's attempts to maintain at least one half of the species in subjugation. Men have been so obsessed with their individual survival (now called ego) that they are prepared to continue this conspiracy to keep the competit­ ion down. Freud's mythical penis-envy needs to be replaced by clit- envy. Those seven-to-one nerve endings must mean something.

Body attraction is one of the many possible things that draw people together (whatever gender). The sensual stimulation of exploring a body — con­ centrating on it - is what is usually called sex. Actually we do it when we wear clothes — tactile stimulation. It's no accident that women, so repressed in overt stimulation wear such excitingly textured clothes as stockings, and before that, girdles. We also excite our senses by eating, looking at the moon etc... Body exploration/exploitation is primarily a tactile trip, although all the other senses get into the act. Think how many foods are mnemonics for parts of the body — especially genitalia. (Which came first though, a love of oysters or love of pussy?) Like the word love, sex has become a dangerous word because it mythifies the simple-complex processes of body- games.

HT10 In America, sexual liberation has at least reached the THE STRONGER SEX stage where Mr and Mrs Right proudly admit to the reality THE DOMINATION/SUBMISSION DICHOTOMY beneath this happy scenario . ..

Since the invention of weapons, and especially since Rape involves (a) aregretable, but understandable survival became a problem for the species en masse rather than outbreak of body-craving by a male whose sperm has man-to-man or woman-to-woman, this is a mostly relevant to built up to dambusting proportions. (Natural weakness dark alleys, late at night. which is part of the male's strength.) And (b) a manifestation One further note here: the extra-strength male who of the woman's secret desire to be ravaged. wrestles his mate to the bed, and splits her to the navel in a Maileresque show of chutzpah, may prove something in that first three minutes...but ask her who's stronger after an hour or two.

RARING The Myth:

There is one Mr Right and one Mrs Right, for us all.

In fact, our society treats rape as a violation not of the woman, but of the man who owns her. His property is devalued. Thus the punishment is almost as severe as it is for murder or insurrection (another attempt by the poor to take the property of the rich). A raped single woman is mercilessly manhandled by lawyers, juries, judges, the press and the duped public. She is no-one's property — and she ought to be some-one's anyway (remember, she secretly wanted it).

HT11 UNNATURAL AGE ACTS The Myth: Homosexuality, incest, genital-oral and anal-oral contact, The middle-aged man is mature, experienced, brilliant, dildos, and fetishes are all more-or-less against the law along w itty, rich and therefore potent. Older Women who chase with masturbation (which isn't against the law but it gives Young Men are witches. Young Men who chase Older Women you pimples and night-blindness). are gigolos or pooftahs, or both.

These exciting pursuits are all ways of setting those nerve Sexologists have "discovered" that female sexuality ends a tingling. Try them. Send your reactions, rated on a 1 -to-j peaks at 28—30 while the male high spot is between I8 and 10 scale to the High Times Sexologist, 217 Canning St, Carlton 21. They have also discovered that there is no such thing as 3053 (enclose photograph)* vaginal orgasm (see Masters and Johnson et al).

Rhetoric Phillip Frazer Artwork McCosmic

HT12 plement this treatment with multi­ Preferably drink normal saline and vitamin capsules. (2) dextrose (available without script). As Emergency treatment: 100 mg much fluids as possible should be "Doriden" taken orally with "Pethidine" consumed. or similar painkiller as required. Emergency treatment: Where medical treatment is not available, intravenous Ampetamines injection of 10 to 20 mg of 'Lethidrone' (nalorphine hydrobromide). Repeat only This is a reprint of a sheet Primarily remember that once if no response in 3-4 minutes. which was published for distribution in Speed Kills. Prolonged use of methedrine Sydney late last year by Philip West and or similar amphetamines, causes a serious Peter O'Brein. medical condition which resembles par­ Important: For overdoses of all opiates, A t that time, it was intended to estab­ anoid schizophrenia. intravenous injection 8 grains (OO cap or lish a Kool Aid office with 24 - hour Emergency treatment: Drink V2 teaspoon) of salt in one mil. of water. phone and assistance services to be run by 50 cc of "Dormel" (chloralhydrate 4.5% Repeat only once ifno response. Max. heads themselves. solution). Dormel is available from reommended dose: I6 grains. Inject I still feel this is a commend­ chemists w ithout a script. Seek immediate rapidly. able aim and I hope that someone will be medical treatment. able to get together along these lines in Cocaine [incl. xylocaine] : each of our capital cities. Methyl Amphetamine: This addictive is Treatment: artificial respiration and In lieu of that, this is the sheet generally known as "speed" — and speed hospitalise immediately. Possible use of circulated as a service. Reprinting is incited. kills. Methedrine in this form may induce barbituates to control convulsions. Marijuana/Hashish "freaking" on acid. Ethyl Alcohol (narcotic): Much of the hashish available Emergency treatment for bad Immediate gastric lavage fluids for is opiated. This makes it soft and black, trips: If no medical aid available, oral dehydration, inhalation of oxygen if ingestion of 50 milligrams of "M elleril" and although it is not addictive when respiration depressed and artificial (thieridazine hydrochloride). Repeat smoked, it can have some unpleasant respiration. Conserve body heat. twice if necessary. If Melleril is not avail­ side-effects. able, oral ingestion 50 milligrams "Largac- Septicaemia (from unclean syringe): Some persons are also aller­ ty l" (chlorpromazine). Do not repeat. Do gic to opium (see 'opium' below) and can Primary symptoms: high fever, headache, not use Largactyl for STP. become extremely ill. In these cases encour­ spots before the eyes, severe pain in kid­ LSD results in general vitamin age vomiting by drinking common salt in ney region (late sign), pupils usually deficiencies which should be corrected by water, the more the better. pinpoint, blood in urine (late sign). taking two general vitamin supplement Hospitalise patient immediately or death LSD (acid) capsules ("Supradyn") with a hot drink, preferably milk (with honey). is inevitable as early as 21% hours after There are presently on sale injection. LSD "Cocktails", any of which may have unexpected side effects. One tablet was Keep your outfit clean. 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Five (5) mg of methedrine more than one. Strychnine has a very may be taken for each 100 mg barbit- bitter taste. A person affected by it may uate taken. Keep patient awake. be able to use ten times his normal strength Results of use may include Notes: and may be uncontrollable during a bad cramps, delirium tremors, convulsions, If the situation is desperate, we stage of the trip. There may be a feeling kidney and liver damage, abcessed arms, suggest you go to the nearest doctor of suffocation, or convulsions. thrombosis, B12 deficiency. or chemist and explain that you need Results in acute deficiencies help. Take this article with you. In of Vitamin B12 which can, and usually most cases, this w ill be the easiest and does result in severe cramps usually in the Opiates [Morphine, Opium, Pethidine, fastest method of securing the above stomach or legs. Test your LSD tablet by Palfium, Omnopon, Scopolamine antidotes. licking the outside for a bitter taste. 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HT13 middle class combined with the lower classes to over throw the old aristoc­ ratic ruling group ... in the name of liberty for all. However the lower classes, now called the working class, soon discov­ ered that by liberty for all the middle class meant liberty for the middle class to exploit the working class. It was round about this time that Marx started writing — and he saw himself as the prophet of the last and final revolution - the proletarian revolution. The last because the workers could only free themselves by freeing all mankind and abolishing private A property and the domination of one man by another. Thrown together in the factory, Marx saw the working class as devel­ C H IL D ’S oping a new kind of human relation­ ship. The relationship of comrade to comrade. So we've got — in the broadest GARDEN and crudest sense — what Marx meant by a revolution. But somewhere along the line the characters in this drama got their lines crossed. The first rev­ OF REVOLUTION olution made in the name of the BY CHRIS HECTOR proletariat was in fact a peasant revoltuion — the Russian revolution. The trouble with talking, writ­ But we are no closer to defining To make it worse control of the ing even thinking about '"revolution' the concept. Karl Marx saw that soc­ revolution was seized by a power hungry paranoid who proceeded to is that no one person seems to be iety did not proceed as a number of make things less rather than more sure of what he/she/it is talking minor changes. He saw that at certain free. about. These days a revolution can points in man's history a new society The, idea of what revolution mean as little as an attempt to bol­ grew out of the womb of the old. ster the tired replays of a cruddy He identified this process of looked like became preverted. The TV network to a promotion cam­ change with the changing nature of rigid authoritarianism of stalinist paign for a new brand of panti- the way in which the society main­ Russia became the model for the hose. tained itself. Thusly in the first new society. Not surprisingly most people seemed to prefer their own Even amongst the political 'primitive' society, the main activity heavies, the street freaks and power of the society was of the hunting and home grown repression. trippers there's no agreement. Half gathering kind. Such activity generated And yet another balls-up inter­ the time they spend accusing each a fairly simple form of social organ­ fered w ith the neat model Feudal/ other of betraying the 'revolution', ization — the tribe. Capitalist/Communist. The workers none of the time describing the instead of becoming poorer and more With the development of sophis­ beast. oppressed appeared to become richer ticated agricultural methods the nature Even the power maniacs of the and more comfortable (appear that of the society became more complex. other side, (the politicians, the public is, but let's not forget that they are New roles were created to handle servants, the newspaper kings, the uni­ still robbed by the guys who make larger units of people. Law and rules versity bureaucrats) — seem no more that real money, and that for many became more formalised. And the clear. Revolution one gathers is bad. life is still a nasty grind in the face aristocratic or feudal ruling class em­ The enemy of Laura Norder but not of poverty). much else. erged. This was a revolution. This complication was explained Feudalism meandered along for by the theory of imperialism. Instead At risk of heaviness one must some centuries. But as before, new of the capitalists ripping off the work­ return to K. Marx. Despite the more techniques for maintaining the society ers in their own country they ripped paranoid fantasies of the Right, Marx were developed. First the development off the poorer nations. Thus the did not invent 'revoltuion'. Through of commerce. Of large scale buying British and later the American capital­ history man and women have found and selling. Then the techniques of ists exploit the poor of Asia and Africa that they must rise up and over­ industry. And capitalism began to and pass on enough of the loot to throw their oppressors. The unhappy develop within the womb of feudal­ their own workers to keep them quiet, fate of these exercises notwithstand ism. Since the capitalist methods of although still oppressed. ing the instinct to rebel must be seen production were more effective, Many revolutionaries therefore as one of the finer characteristics of eventually the society underwent yet see the revolution as being global in mankind. another revolution. This time the scale — a fight by the working class

HT14 countries (who are basically peasant) the life of luxury and authority as Man in capitalist society is against the rich, white capitalist class. part of this same heavenly design. alienated because he is dominated by Sooner or later the poor nations of In a sense both were equally denied the desire for money; to obtain the world will defeat imperialism and the opportunity to develop their money he must work, he must we'll be back to square one....the w ork­ unique and individual human-ness. surrender his personality to the er enters the scene again once more As Marx saw it man defined system. Solution: you stand up in the revolutionary force. himself by his labor — by what he public and burn money. You sit Complication the nth. In the did. In all societies man's work re­ down in public and refuse to last few years a new 'revolutionary' flected not his individual capacities earn any. Either way you challenge force has appeared — the YOUTH... or talents but the needs of the the basis of man's unfreedom. social grouping and at that even this or maybe not. Depending how you For man to remain unfree it is social grouping does not reflect the look at it. One thing that's obvious necessary to crush his spirit by real needs of its members since the is that of the people taking to the sexually repressing him. Sexually distribution of social wealth was street, revolting, protesting etc. most unsatisfied he is more likely to be both unequal and unfair. of them are young. And most of them docile and submissive. Equally the come from middle class backgrounds. Under capitalism, alienation fake and acceptable eroticism of the Now if you happen to take K. Marx took on a new form. The existence beautiful female model in almost any as some kind of gospel this is not of a divine plan was questioned; ad ties him into a system of a revolutionary movement. The next each man was held to make his own acquisitiveness that demands he revolution must be a revolution of destiny. Opportunity was open to spend most of his waking life the working class establishing social­ all — through hard work, any could slaving his guts out for objects that ism. Youth can therefore not be a succeed. Success was to be measured he doesn't really need in the first revolutionary movement — although in terms of the amount of property place. OK if you defy the sexual they can help. Which is all very well each individual acquired. Such a taboos of the society by act, word unless you happen to be young, mid­ measure of success once again denied or illustration you may be under­ dle class anti-war, and opposed to a the individual the truth of his own mining one section of the society's socie y in which money doesn't talk unique individuality — while each act ideological construct challenge — it swears and propaganda all is phoney. is potentially the unique expression the entire mythology that helps In which the cops are likely to put of your own creativity, if this act is keep man unfree. you away for smoking dope, or just then quantified and judged in the This activity is all the more because you don't look right. A terms of some other object, it is no society in which you don't want to longer unique — it is no longer the meaningful since for the first time fit in even if you could. What sort expression of your own creativity in man's history, man has at his of revolution is there? but simply an object. Something disposal the technical resources removed from your personality. You which make possible the final and ALIENATION, THE FUN work not to express yourself but complete freedom of humanity. If REVOLUTION AND ZEN to gain money with which you may we wished, it would be possible not only to rationalise work but to As before back to Marx. The purchase the article you have just abolish it altogether. Used creatively existence of a revolutionary produced, with the margin of profit the technology available could auto­ consciousness outside of class war­ taken by the employer added. mate all those unpleasant tasks that fare envisaged by Marx caused a Logical? Just? Reasonable? Not at in the past have oppressed man. The number of people to re-examine his all. As soon as the individual realised need for unpleasant and repetitive early writing - in particular the that the system was determining labor no longer exists. Economic and Philosophical Manu­ him rather than his needs determin­ scripts of 1844. ing the function of the system, he This theory formed the basis would reject it. Thus the whole of the notion of the FUN revolut­ Here they discovered Marx's emphasis of the socialisation process ion. Organised society can only exist theory of alienation. Very crudely of the capitalist society must be at the cost of great unhappiness for it runs as follows. In all societies directed towards the development the individuals who live in it. Prove man has been repressed and alienat­ of false consciousness. The individ­ to man that happiness is possible and ed from his true self because man's ual is taught from infancy through the form of social organisation be­ social role has been imposed by to old age that he must accept his comes unacceptable. The true weap­ forces beyond his control and lot. That authority above him is on of the revolutionary is now the comprehension. Thus primitive man just and wise. To keep each individ­ joke, the shock tactic of the cultural was alienated in that his life was ual from realising that the work he guerilla. The only valid political act almost entirely at the whim of the is doing represses rather than liber­ is one's own existence. In seeking to irrational forces of nature. Disease, ating him, he must be filled full of establish a new - a loving and hum­ cold fire, flood, drought, and famine bullshit. ane way of life a new community is all determined that his development This, by a tortured process of born. Within the womb of the old and his life were not his own. reasoning, lead to the idea that if society the new one is built. A new Under feudalism these forces you emptied the shit out of the society based not around a common from without were formalised and individual, then he would realise he class basis, but the realisation that the determination of one's life was was being conned — and while this work and acquisitiveness form the seen as the actions of a god. The would still not get rid of the social basis of man's repression. The de­ wretch born to a life of serfdom forces that cause the alienation, at mand is then to each according to was to accept this role as the wish least the individual would be aware his imagination. Play power comes of the Almighty Father. Correspond­ of his unfreedom and presumably into being. ingly the aristocrat was to accept take steps to resolve the situation. To be exacerbated next issue...

HT15 So, you don't think that John Lennon's advertising campaign for peace made sense? I don't know whether people want to take notice of it. Say: He's right, you know, and he's probably had an influence of some kind. It's not what I want to spend my In tlii> intrn icw Jagger talks about his political beliefs and bis energies on, you know, because id(‘a> onJ tin4 possible A1 lulure of Gthe underground tfll and student movement I felt that John spent so much in England: time on that he has forgotten about the music..... to make the best music pos­ Q. How would you explain the But, he has probably real­ sible. It's up to the other fact that the Stones are still ized that now. But it was his people in the underground the leading Rock'n'Roll thing at the time. to provide the musicians alter- q group whereas the Beatles... What's your position tow­ native methods of distribution. A: Well, that's been out. They ards society, the system you I mean, I have been thinking don't exist. are living in? and working towards trying ^ Q: There are critics who say that I think 'the downfall of cap to work out some alternative the scene in London has got italism' is a very old fashioned method of distributing records. completely commercialised. idea, especially if you're going There is no enthusiasm from What do you feel about,that? to replace it with the same ' any other quarter for doing A: I don't understand what you kind of marxism that's pract­ it. So, until then we have to mean.... 'commercialised'..... ised in Eastern Germany. I'm distribute records through the 'the scene in London'.....I all for the downfall of capital­ channels of capitalism. As don't understand. ism. I don't dig capitalism as soon as people come forward Q: Well, for example, Stones a system. with different ideas I would Albums might be a bit expen­ You have to fight capitalism be only too pleased to hear sive for kids. Kit Lambert, for its worst evils. You have from them. the Who's manager for exam­ to fight, contain it and event­ I'd like to sell records on the ple, is quoted in a magazine ually destroy it. But you have street. We could sell them for saying that UNDERGROUND to reach some kind of under is just another word for half the price. It's not easy. money. We need a guy who would be A: Well, it might be to him. I prepared to spend all his time don't know what UNDER­ thinking about that. I can't GROUND means.....under­ man. I've got to go and write ground means all kinds of songs, you know, and do con­ things to all kinds of people. certs. I can't just sit down in To Kit Lambert it means an office but I think some­ money, maybe. body should. I think the underground That's part of what the under­ should set out to destroy or ground is — to provide an to eliminate capitalism. One alternative method of dis­ should try to get the records tribution, an alternative out of the hands of large mouthpiece. electronic companies who It's been done to a certain give money to the American extent in America, in the government to make airplanes place where it was most for Vietnam, or napalm. needed, in the United States. I mean, this is the purpose of I don't think in England It's the underground. Unfortunate­ been very successful. ly, the musicians get a lot of Q: What can a rock-musician blame when things,go wrong. do to change society? You know, musicians function A: Just sing his heart out. H T 16 standing of a better alternat­ English. No enthusiasm for orary degree like Bob Dylan? ive than the marxism that anything. There are some A: I don't think anyone would we've see so far. I don't like things that young people give me an honorary degree. the marxism in East Germany. could be interested in. An­ It must be very difficult to When I went to Poland I didn't archy, for example, complete be rude to people when they like what I saw there. I think destruction of the system. want to honor you. I don't that's marxism in action. I They are not interested. think it's bad for Bob Dylan don't think that's freedom Eighteen year old in England to take an honorary degree. in action. have the right to vote, you I don't think Bob Dylan would But every revolutionary gov­ know. Six million new accept a medal from President ernment must be autocratic. voters. Not ONE guy was Nixon. There is a difference. That's one of the tenets of put up for parliament. I Q: If you look back at the last revolution. don't want to go for par^ decade when you were always liament. I don't agree with runner up behind the Beatles Q: You have been a student at it, but I find it surprising in popularity, would you say the London School of Econ­ that no one is interested in you could havohandled it omics. Do you still have that. Just for the hell of it! smarter? contact with the LSE? To control their own destiny. A: I've always known which one A: No, I have not got any con­ No one is interested in that. tacts with the student's was the best. Who is most That's just the apathy. popular is of no interest to movement in England at all. It's very nice to live in Eng­ me. The Beatles did their The student movement in land but you can't stand it own thing well, you know, England is a very half-heart­ all the time. It drives you and I think we did our well ed affair. crazy. too. We both made mistakes. Q: How do you explain that? Would you ever accept a MBE A: That's the apathy of the like the Beatles? Or an hon­ WOLFGANG FRANK

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★ * HT23 If you haven't heard of Charles A. Reich's bestseller The Greening of America, you have now. And since the odds are that you have heard of it, and read about it, the only summary of the book necessary for new­ comers is the blurb off the cover: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it w ill change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be success­ fully resisted by violence. This is the revolution of the new genera­ tion ." Regular followers of this magazine (including its predecessor Revolution) may have assumed that something like this premise has underscored what edit­ orial policy we have had. This is probably true of a large number of articles publish­ ed in Revolution/High Times, but if there has been anything consistent about the magazine, it is that no single editor, let alone editorial policy, has prevailed. The Greening has been phenomenally successful with the public, but not so with critics. Our own Frank Knopfelmacher contemptuously demolished it in The Review (October 15th). Knopfelmacher lists four flaws in the Reich thesis: that he is unsure whether in a future generation of liberated Con­ sciousness III types, the essential task of production will be automated to the ex­ tent that repression of workers becomes redundant, or that the work will be done STATE without the rigid systems that make it oppressive in Consciousness II; that Reich's use of the word "revolution" is wrong, and that Reich is not a revolutionary; that When he's not playing the academic-who- felmacher urges America's bosses to step knows-how-the-words-ought-to-be-usedOF A NATION it is not consciousness which determines up their efforts at suppressing the physical game, Knopfelmacher is ignoring the real the society and that Reich is an ideal­ breakdowns. ist in that he expects salvation to come issue of a growing disillusionment with inevitably, given the rising tide of liberated the ethics of the western world (which The reality of America today is of a consciousnesses ("Consciousness III is a Reich too obscures). And, of course, society built on assumptions and prefererv paradign case of a false consciousness, a Knopfels is thumping his own drum about ces that, when institutionalised on such a set of false yet comforting beliefs that discipline, control, heirachy, authority scale, just don't fit the physical or emot­ you can have your cake and eat it."). and all those things that repressed people ional make-up of Man. No animal that we Knopfelmacher then proceeds to suggest crave. know about can thrive on an atmosphere that Reich's appeal is based on the fact What neither Knopfelmacher or Reich full of carbon dioxide. The human animal that his mind revolution scares no-one, look at long enough or carefully enough is likely to crack if placed under constant while it legitimises the "chic radical" style is the breakdown of America's self- con­ stress situations. Perhaps the most common of the middle-class disenchanted. fidence. A nation that was once convinced disease of the "silent m ajority" is neuroses Knopfelmacher concludes by warning that it was God's chosen land has spent induced by the stresses in trying to com­ "those - american and non-american centuries building massive monuments to prehend all that's happening! The media alike - whose personal freedom and sur­ material progress and achievement (climax­ are bombarding the people with infor­ vival is linked with the fortunes of the ing in the phallic rocket-conquest of the mation that, by its presentation and american republic" that "the....problem moon)— to find its people wracked with context, asks them to range the alternat­ is....how to work safeguards of individual neuroses, hatred, frustration, and fear — ives and make a decision. Bus drivers die liberty into the interstices of the manag­ in short, a nationwide physical and emot­ of heart attacks because they have to make erial-corporate state, which cannot be ional sickness. snap decisions all day, whereas conductors abolished because with it our technetronic While Reich concentrates on the emot­ live on with healthy circulations because culture would also go, and with it our ional malaise, and the new emotional they run up and down stairs all day. civilisation." If America's crisis (and it's ours too HT 24 the significance of the mass disillusion­ folks) is, on the broadest level, the res­ the national rock-worship of the young. ult of trying for centuries to push a ment in America (and remember it's only While there were some victories on the square peg (Man) into a round hole (the a new phenomenon amongst the white way through (Ralph Nader was probably super-structured society), is it any more middle-class — everyone else has always the most successful, and he didn't mob­ been disillusioned), the country isn't solution to wait for mass-neurosis to lead ilise millions behind him), the results seem going to change when all the businessmen to mass refusal, than to keep on adding to be maihly attitudinal. The American smoke dope and wear bell-bottoms. more ropes, chains, locks and props to people are either determined to work at the crumbling repressive edifice? There is still a thoroughly dominant ideo­ some social injustice, preferably one to logy based on the belief that human nat­ Traveling through the hot-beds of pol­ which they can relate and see immed­ itical and social activity in the U.S. ure is unchangeable, unchangeably com­ iate results, like the local school board, petitive, and therefore inevitably needs (California, New York) last month, talk­ or they are more neurotic than ever under ing to editors, artists, activists and absorb­ a society structured with controls aimed the strain of all this crusading and question­ at containing this rampant individualism ing a little of the media barage, my impres­ ing. sion was of all the sub-groups of that div­ and aggression. erse society turning away from the cold, Unfortunately, the swing to localised There is still a ruling class that fun­ thankless, brutal area of national action action has the potential of reviving what damentally believes this ideology, and (you get killed in that game) toward Andrew Kopkind calls the Ptolemanic they w ill all use their immense economic community self-help. The sixties were the theory of the political universe: "every­ power to protect themselves first against years in which national outrage at the thing is in orbit around my movement, each other, then against the unarmed, institutionalised hypocrisy of the state around my politics, around my collective." impoverished riff-raff that presumes to expressed itself in vast campaigns like the And he could have summed it up by adding care about life, pleasure and their civil rights movement, the Kennedy cults, around my problem. fellow man. the anti (Vietnam) war movement, and While Reich is right in his assessment of Phillip Frazer HT25 We've been in South America eight days now and already have enough mat­ erial to fill a book — have done, in fact. What you're getting is a heavily cut down OUR SOUTH version of our day to day notes. The early morning of September 30 — 4 O'clock — we boarded a rickety Electra bound for Barranquilla from Miami with 70 pounds of gear in two packs and a shoulder bag and a plane load of insane AMERICAN TRIP passengers — mainly middle class Colum­ bians returning from shopping sprees in Florida. The airfare was US$122 return on Aerocondor Airlines, the cheapest way we could find of getting into South America apart from hitching through Central America which could be a bit heavy. The return ticket is a good thing because a lot of countries require that you have a ticket out. We slept for a while and awoke to a Caribbean sunrise. All burnt orange, salmon pink and Cecil B.De Millish. Landing in Barranquilla in the early morning we saw none of the expected thrilling pigs with sub-machine guns — in fact out transit through customs and immigration was amazingly smooth. We had on our best clothes and I had shaved (with cold water at Miami airport — that combined with the lack of practice I found it a bit dif- icult but I managed not to cut myself) — perhaps that's why they showed no interest in us at all. Stupidly I changed all my American money at the airport at 20 pesos to the dollar. It is illegal to bring dollars into the country but they don't search you or anything. We've been offered up to 30 pesos to the dollar so if you are into a black market trip here is the place. We decided to bring our money in a letter of credit — which you take to a bank and draw on in local currency — it's the safest way but you only get the bank prices — there is a black market in travel­ ler's checks but not as high as for cash, take your pick. Immediately we were into the open area of the airport we were besieged by dudes selling everything from Chitos & Chicklets (twisties & chewing gum) to American cigarettes (20c a pack) to jew- elery. This has gone on ever since though not heavily — I mean these'guys are everywhere but they don't hassle you. A guy offered us a ride into the city in his minibus for 50c which we accepted - THE HIGH TIMES SOUTH AMERICAN TRIP when we got there he insisted that we Former REVOLUTION editor Jon Hawkes, with his lady Lorraine, had agreed on $1.00 — we gave him 50c have embarked on an intrepid jouney from one end of South America, and left - our first experience of the rip- (the North) to the other (the South). off syndrom and one of very few.After ail the warnings we've had both outside As they travel, by foot, bus, train, llama etc., they are recording and inside the country about all Latinos their every experience for posterity and HIGH TIMES. being thieves we've experienced nothing We join them on stage one of their journey, and hope to bring to back it up. you succeeding episodes as they arrive by our international carrier After arriving we had a driver drop (air mail). us at a hotel we had read about in The

HT26 South American Handbook (Trade & is a drag and we've been told not to drink corozo (a clear red very sweet drink — I Travel Publications Ltd. — a new edition the milk because the cows have T.B., to don't know from what plant), zapote (a each year, much better than the $5.00 a wash vegetables in mild detergent — on brown skinned red fleshed almost straw­ day book) called the Hotel California. and on it goes — you could turn the whole berry looking tasting fruit) plus of course Later we were told that it was in the most trip into a visit to a hospital. We had yellow papaya, fresas (strawberry), lots of others dangerous part of the city but it seemed fever, typhoid, cholera and smallpox inject­ — a fruit diet would be incredible here no worse than anywhere else. Barranquilla ions. The only other medical number most of the little cajes have vitamizers is a heavy transportation and industrial worth knowing is that chloroquin a com­ where they just chop up the fnuit, buzz city, not very beautiful but teeming with mon ingredient in both malarial and it up add come ice and there you are people and interesting things. dystentery medicines has been found (like for a couple of pesos (10 cents) We had a bit of a misunderstand­ masturbation) to cause blindness if used But I'm getting away from our ing about the rooms eventually getting for a long time and that quixalon is the journey and turning this into hints for one for $1.50 — a black and white flag­ best stuff for amoebic dysentery — which travellers. Baranquilla was a bit heary to stone floor, 4 single beds, 3 tables, a is a real drag is you get it. The whole med­ stay in for a long time — it was all the chair, a seatless toilet, basin & shower icine trip is a real bummer but it does tightness of any industrial city plus all the that didn't work and an overhead fan - give a pretty good example of how much poverty of any South American city so it was clean and fine despite the broken easier things would be if we spoke good we decided to split in the morning to and peeling painted windows, the cob­ Spanish. Cartagena where we have been since. webs , rock hard beds and puny lock on Back to the Hotel California — we We were up at seven in the morning an even more puny door. Out of the door spent the morning trying to get a street- to catch the bus to Cartagena, it left was a courtyard full of cockerels, ducks map — finally discovering that one isn't from the Plaza Bolivar — every town has and d irt - out of the window a small printed, I suppose because tourists don't at least five Bolivar somethings. He led plaza full of handcarts, jeeps, dilapid­ come here and no-one else needs one — the Colombian fight for freedom from the ated lorries and hundreds of noisy buses. finally ending up in the tourist bureau Spaniards and after his movement for The buses are amazing — brightly where they feed us great Colombian coffee federation failed died in poverty in Santa painted all over, even the windows (what and were very friendly despite being a Marta a town about 100 miles from few there are); they'd be called psyched­ bit turned off by my appearance. We Barranquilla. His greatest words were para­ elic in San Francisco, no side windows told them I was a journalist and they phrased — we will always be fucked over at all, always crammed full of people muttered stuff about guided tours after by the Yankees in the name of freedom. (the driver won't move until he's got we went to the Bogota headquarters — Everywhere we see the evidence of this a full load), the numerous holes in the I don't know if I could get into that. being even more true now than in his floor keep them full of dust, religious time. pictures over the driver's seat (every­ It is peculiar that no men here wear where there are vile pastel pictures of shorts and the Canadian dude we had met Christ, Marys and their friends), very on the plane drew many strange looks and cheap — on the suburban ones 3 cents understandable remarks about presumably will take you anywhere and with the his clothing. Admittedly he looks, behaves horn always blaring — some have three and thinks like the mythical gringo tourist — and four note ones that play tunes - sandals socks long shorts two sizes to big if anything is typical of Colombia it baseball cap, camera - its really ridiculous - is the buses. he shouts when trying to communicate, There are many assets in speaking and is utterly straight as is his mousey the language of the country — the med­ wife. They think in terms of money all icines for instance. We bought stuff like the time (reading this letter back over I codeine, water purifying tablets, anti­ think I do to - but it's all for your bene­ biotics, dysentry tablets, salt tablets, fit) — they would be funny if they weren't mosquito repellent, aspros and antiseptic What little we saw of Barranquilla so embarrasing. cream before we came discovering when was the unusual tourist book contrast The bus ride was great, about 70 we got here that you hardly need a pres­ between air-conditioned skyscrapers and miles (for 65 cents each) through green cription for anything (even ritolin & beggars in rags only we wern't looking mostly unused land — all that poverty in speed can be got over the counter from out of the Hilton Latino penthouse the cities and all this fertile land outside — the hundreds of farmacias that letter the windows. The heat is incredible — the belonging to a tiny group of people. We towns) and the prices are minimal. For season is invierno (translated literally can understand why land reform is a example, we needed some cream to stop is winter but that's meaningless — invierno potent catch cry with the left. Columbia the itching of the mosquito bites we'd is when it rains, verano is when it doesn't since the war has had a pretty horrible picked up from a night in the Everglades, as much) and there is an hour of rain history - from 1948 to 1958 was a period we got some stuff for 30 cents that would most afternoons, if you're from Towns­ called la violencia during which time at have cost $3 in the States and needed a ville you'll know what I mean I suppose — least 200,000 people were killed, many prescription. sweat just pours of us all the time - the tortured to death in incredibly vile ways. We are carrying the basics in med­ hotels (ours anyway) supply just one Yet this wasn't a political battle, hardly ication — there are some books on tropical sheet — that's all that's needed. The result even a civil war, sparked off by the murder medicine that are pretty frightening, but of the heat is that we are constantly thirsty of a popular (and slightly left leaning) it may be the same sort of number as the consuming vast quantities of imperialist liberal party presidential candidate the 'all South Americans are thieves trip'. The Pepsi Cola (3c a bottle) — now we know country fell into total chaoe - the left whole health number gets a bit boring the language a bit better we are drinking was totally unprepared for what happened after a while — fears of hepatitis could put some of the great fru it juices and ice so were not able to seize power - the a stop to oral sex, boiling water everyday cream flavours — guagaba (from guaras), war developed into bands of roving war-

HT27 lords razing the land, sometimes nominally So noisy — apart from human noise, radios which is scrapped a heavy piece of wire), in the name of ei*h big party (the liberals blare out constantly — although in most timbas — like a small conga drum, ac­ and the conservatives - there is no differ­ areas American Cultural imperialism is cordions and sometimes flutes. ence) but more often than not just for over-powering (Porky Pig & Archie comics After Jose had got together the themselves. La Violencia officially ended are everywhere — what possible relevance material for the meal (Jose is a lovely in 1958 (though there are still a political Jughead & Veronica could have to South South American who has adopted us bandidos in the countryside — as well as Americans I can't imagine; American war since our first day here), we caught one of heavy Indian tribes in the impenetrable films & westerns are very popular — 17c those amazing buses to his house out in jungle areas who wipe out any American to get in — perros calientes — hot dogs the barrios. After the meal, while walking searches for oil who pass by) w ith a 16 are very popular as is of course the Amer­ along the beach Jose told us we could buy year old coalition agreement between ican dollar). In music they have kept a kilo (2.2 pounds) of dope for $10. - he the two parties. Since then things have their independence. The half dozen or so may have been exaggerating because we stayed fairly quiet —Camilo Torres the times we have heard rock music it has been later heard that a good price is $20. a priest guerilla was killed, a lot of guer­ one song — Eric Burdon's Tobacco Road. libra (pound). Whichever it's a helleva lot rilla action has occured but nothing the The rest has been the inevitable South cheaper than in the States or back home. government regards as dangerous - American love song with blaring brass. You can buy enough for a couple of publically anyway. Last year at the pres­ Although it all sounds the same to us (and joints (petardos) for 25c which compared idential elections the ANAPO (a populist when we're trying to sleep, pretty awful) to the bulk price is a bit of a rip-off but party — unfortunately thats all I know yet) we are told that each country has its own still it's good dope. A roach is a para candidate and sometime dictator Romas style — here it is cumbia or bambuco - in and as everywhere the names for dope Pinilla won but the coalition suppressed Argentina the samba, Uruguay the tango, are infinite — barreta, la mona, la cosa, the result and Pastrana, a conservative Brazil its bossa nova and so on. The street la verde, la diosa but marihuana is com­ took the presidency till '74. This caused bands here apart from the expected trum ­ monly used. riots all over the country (particularly pets have guacharatas (a percussion instru­ The barrios are all broken down in Bogta, Cali and Medillin) and the ment, a hollow wooden cylinder or goard houses filled w ith hundreds of people - students still are active in anti-government with indentations on the outside along some worse than others. I think Jose's demonstrations, (but more of that later.) was quite a good one. The dirt roads are Arrived in Cartagena around 9:00— filled w ith children playing baseball with driving past grungy barrios of slapped to­ sticks, stones and gloves made from news­ gether pieces of wood, turd and mud paper — Jose told us that every child in brick, ladies with great bundles of ban­ the barrios dreams of becoming a baseball anas on their heads and naked children, star. stagnant waters, beautiful fountains and In the last week we have spent most hugh fortresses. Cartagena is one of the of the time just walking around this beaut­ oldest towns in South America - founded iful town — originally we had intended in 1533 it soon became the centre of the staying here for only one or two days. Now slave trade and thus very prosperous — there is a possibility that we can get jobs attracting lots of pirates — Francis Drake teaching English — the mythical way of sacked it in 1583 but by 1750 it was earning money in foreign countries. It is totally impregnable — the old city re­ such a beautiful town that we might take mains almost as it was then — the huge it up. sometimes 60 foot thick walls remain The last couple of nights there have around the city, the monstrous fortresses been student demonstrations outside the are all still there and the narrow streets university (a converted con are filled with churches and homes of university — not like your march on the aristocrats . Yet despite all its history it embassy but the whole area was surrounded remains incredibly alive. The narrow by the army all helmeted and carrying streets with overhanging balconies, are sub-machine guns — yet 200 yards from always crowded w ith people, carts and the area you wouldn't know anything was honking jeeps and taxis. The many happening. They are protesting, we think, churches are the only quiet places in the from what little we can understand from town - full of gilded alters and decaying the posters, about a dude that was killed pillars. The castles can be visited — hugh by the pigs in Barranquilla a couple of stone mounds with intestinal tunnels days ago, he got a broken skull from a through their innards topped with towers rifle butt. Yesterday, October 8, was the and parpets. The plazas filled with oster- Day of the Heroic Guerilla and the Univ­ ias (oyster stands), cobblers, drink sellers, ersities covered in wall posters quoting fru it sellers. A huge dirty wonderful Che and Camil Torres. Apparently market stands beside a wharf full of Cartagena and Barranquilla are relatively fishing boats painted even more gaily than quiet compared to other centers - it's a buses — everyone is shouting and sexy — bit heavy to see all those guys w ith their it is very dark-skinned town — the people guns wandering about grabbing anyone are beautiful; the contrast with Barranquilla they want. is great. Until next month...... Hasta La Vista We visited the market on the first JON & PONCH HAWKES day and I don't know how to describe it.

HT28 CHEAP THRILLS TO COME

Things to look forward to in ’72. If they get through customs

Doc— produced and directed by Frank Perry, starring Stacy also hell for the widows. Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin. Existential wierdo Doc L’Amour— a Warhol production made in Paris. Jane Forth, Holliday faces currupt Wyatt Earp. Donna Jourdan, Michael Sklar, Max Delys. Two hippy trash Last Picture Show—directed by Peter Bogdanovich girls decide they’d rather dress up and find rich husbands. (Targets). Inhabitants of a small Texas town in the 1950’s, Duck, You Sucker!—d irected by Sergio Leone (A Fistful with particular emphasis on their sexual attitudes and of Dollars), who also helped write it. Rod Steiger, James practices. Coburn. Mexican bandit teams with I.R.A. renegade. Trashing The Touch—I ngmar Bergman’s first film in English, which massacres is nice for Elliott Gould who doesn’t speak Swedish. Bibi Get to Know your Rabbit—Tom Smothers, Katharine Andersson, Max von Sydow. Tensions arise when a stranger Ross, Orson Welles. Executive drops out to become a tap- enters a home where security has always been taken for dancing magician. granted. Dealer—Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Kris Kristofferson, On Any Sunday— by Bruce Brown. Endless Summer of Viva. Musician, his chick, members of L.A. drug scene get wheels. involved with corrupt cop. The garden of the Finzi-Continis—directed by Vittorio Sunday, Bloody Sunday—directed by John Schlesinger, De Sica. Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger. Fascism in Italy screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, in W.W.II Murray Head. Neurotic divorcee and neurotic doctor both Soul to Soul —Good musical documentary filmed at the love the same uncommitted young artist. eight-day 14th Independence Celebration of Ghana. Cast: Hot Rock — directed by Peter Yates from a screen play Ike and Tina Turner, Santana, Wilson Pickett, the Staple by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Singers, Roberta Flack, Voices of East Harlem, Les McCann, Kid). Robert Redford, George Segal, Zero Mostel. Comic others. misadventures of thieves after an elusive jewel. The Trojan Women—co-produced, directed, and written All American Boy —directed and written by Charles (after Euripides) by Micael Cacoyannis. Katharine Hepburn, Eastman (Five Easy Pieces). Jon Voight. Golden-gloves Vanessa Redgrave, Genevieve Bujold, Irene Papas. The war was fighter bugs friends and family.

HT29 Adapted from ESQUIRE magazine. The Cowboys— John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Brown. 1500 Diamonds are Forever—directed by Guy Hamilton (Gold- head of cattle and more grit. finger). Sean Connery, Jill St.John. The real Bond isn’t com­ The Hired Hand—directed by Peter Fonda, starring Fonda. ing bac^c; he never went away. Warren Oates, Verna Bloom. Chores down on the ranch. Bless the Beasts and Children— Stanley Kramer’s prod­ The Love Machine—From the Jacqueline Susann book. uction of the Glendon Swartout novel. Subteen-agers at camp John Phillip Lae, Dyan Cannon, Jackie Cooper, Robert Ryan, are disturbed by buffalo hunt. David Hemmings, Jodi Wexler, but who’s counting? T. R. Baskin—produced and written by Peter Hyams, direct ed by Herbert Ross. Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Cann Small-town girl comes to big city. Disillusionment follows. The Devils— another Ken Russell saga in which Vanessa periodicals Redgrave plays a hunchback nun and gives herself a boiling Creem —The Midwest’s foremost rock publication. Editor water enema (back to camera) along with other assorted Dave Marsh has a good rep in the underground; Lester Bangs audience-shockers. and ex-Rolling Stone stars Greil Marcus and Ed Ward Deadhead Miles— Alan Arkin, Paul Benedict. The misad­ contribute. Growing. $5 for 12 issues or 50 cents per copy. ventures of a reluctant hijacker. 3729 Cass Ave., Detroit, Mich. 48201. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me— Based Flash— Former Rolling Stone magazine editor John Burks’ on Richard Farina’s book. Barry Primus, Bruce Davison, David long-term dream has been to produce a hip Newsweek (he Downing. Tuned-in dropout returns to campus. used to work for the unhip one). Whether Flash will qualify The Straw Dogs—directed by Sam Peckinpah. Dustin Hoff­ or not is largely a metter of financing, but a dummy issue man, Susan George. Under-surface savagery in a Cornish village, made positive waves in publishing circles last spring, so Flash may be out now. Then again it may not be. Inquire The Go-Between—directed by Joseph Losey, screenplay by at 2520 Sacramento St., San Francisco, California. Harold Pinter. Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Fusion—originally conceived as a literate rock-music Michael Redgrave. A complicated Victorian love affair. They publication in a tabloid newspaper size, Fusion is now loved it in Cannes. something of a hip highbrow magazine. Former Crawdaddy Macbeth— directed by Roman Polanski, screenplay by writers Robert Somma, R. Meltzer and (less frequently) Kenneth Tynan. Jon Finch, Francesca Annis. Bloody. Sandy Pearlman offer informed opinions and non-linear humor. $8 for a year; 50 cents per copy. 909 Beacon St., Harold and Maude—Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort. 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HT30 Ian engaged in heavy manual labour. That’s Prison letters April 3 the most painful time of day, when ... Ultimately we are making a frontal neither your mind nor your body is the attack on their ideology. It has to be slightest bit tired, but when wise men part of our strategy to let a jury see that write an order in council saying time for we are not attacking any interest but sleep boys. ENGLAND that o f the exploiter and we seek to Jake On May 27th Ian Purdie and Jake better the quality of everyday life. May 19 Prescott were committed for trial at the Ian There’s a lot of your letter (to A lison) Old Bailey, charged with conspiracy to March 23 which mirrors what we’ve been thinking bomb Robert Carr’s house, the Miss Your smiling and undefeated faces at about this whole thing .. .. they ’re World Contest and the Department of Barnet are very comforting and do trying to bore us to death, they ’re doing Productivity in St. James Square. The much to dispel the inevitable isolation a pretty good job of that, our whole committal proceedings at Barnet that tends to gather during enforced time in court is a whole series of utterly Magistrates Court took five weeks, and separation, when you are kept con- boring proceedings, and as they say, if it more than eighty witnesses were called, stantly apart from even your fellow went any faster it would stop. either in person or in written inmates. We sit through each day either statements. I read ‘Letter from Soledad ’ today groaning aloud at the low-rate melo­ The case against Jake rests on the and they choked me half to death. I drama, or talking to each other, reading testimony of ‘Mr. A’, who along with mean the goddam conditions those guys newspapers, and all the usual things ‘Mr. B’, shared a cell with him in are kept in apart from what Jackson done when waiting for a train or Brixton. ‘Mr. A’ appeared in court to said which / found pretty beautiful. A something. tell the ‘whole story’, but ‘Mr. B’, who one year to life stretch gives them just We actually had a Major Henderson was to corroborate his statement, about everything they need. A Scottish (the Major H?) an explosives expert in disappeared. guy in here has a whole page stuck up yesterday, and he was so boring, he Ian stands accused because of his on his wall with various paragraphs nearly fell asleep himself-it’s funny, friendship with Jake, his ‘strong heavily underlined-the racists just can ’t but all those kind of people, the ones anarchist views’ and in the words of seem to understand it. who defuse live bombs, fight oil-field Superintendent Habershon, because he fires, etc., they are generally very is ‘A likely candidate for the outrage’. Ian dour-he was no exception, and his sort Mr. Hudson, QC-, said at the conclusion March 30 of punch-lines are delivered in the most of the hearing: ‘TTiere is not a shred of The evening tea comes round and the pseudo-everyday way, eg. *the victim evidence for this man to stand trial’, the prison settles for the night-time to write pulls the innocent-looking string (of a magistrate thought otherwise. masterpieces. I get thru ’ an awful lot of bomb) and so sows the seeds of their Ian and Jake’s trial involves two ideas that never materialise on paper. own destruction ’ and all said like ‘what alleged conspiracies: the prosecution Maybe the worst thing about not time does the last bus leave ’...... and alleges conspiracy against the state, the controlling your own lights is that if they have got about 160 exhibits which defence aigues that there is a conspiracy your brains are racing away you get no they laboriously catalogue, various by the state to find two scapegoats for rest. You lie there for hour upon hour court personnel running about with the bombings. and all you wanna do is to pick up the huge bags of earth taken from the scene Their letters from prison tell of the book you left or reach for your pen. I of the bombings etc., enough to grow frustrations they feel at the court just dunno what’s in the mind of the tomatoes and stuff with, which would proceedings, and of life inside. However, prison authorities who lock up adults be a hellova lot more productive for the whatever the state may do to them, for 23 odd hours a day and then reckon prosecution case, we may all die of they remain unashamed revolutionaries. they need 8 hours sleep like they were boredom but at least not hunger. . .

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HT31 Only record reviewers would really know this problem. Every record company in the world sends them 35 records a month to review and before they know it they've got a collection of all those great records which will never be played because most of them should never have been made. H igh Times was the lucky reciprient of one of these col­ lections and prepare yourselves for the reviews of all those records no reviewer ever reviewed (except for the occasional 10 word mention as an after thought). If any person can think of a good use for these records (and they aren't ALL bad) they can call or write High Times to arrange delivery. The Climax Blues Band plays on — The Climax Chicago Blues; Parlophone. The cover’s sweet. Their blues are adequately wailed. I once thought I Yes — Yes; Atlantic. Soft harmonies and chords. heard a track from what might have been their album Not very exciting. Not even as good as Spectrum at after I wrote this on the radio, and if I did then it was their worst. But still, the album is two years old. much better than this one. BAD MANORS

Turtle Soup — The Turtles; Festival. When I first heard this I thought it was terrible. Then I read some­ where that two of the Turtles are now twy of the^ Mothers so I went back and had another listen. It’s still terrible. Bad Manors — Crowbar; Festival, The rock and roll the cover and that SRC — SRC; Capitol; Er...... er...... well I think it’s boogie inside is as good as the pun on an attempt at acid-rock. A couple of tracks are inter­ is being extremely charitable. esting. No, I’ll take that back. They might have been interesting some years ago. It’s not really acid-rock. It’s mandrax-rock. At the Mountains of Madness — Blackfeather; Infinity. I never liked Blackfeather, live or recorded. ‘Seasons of Change’ is the only good track and even then Fraternity recorded the superior version of that.

Hate Kills — Hate; Paramount. There’s nothing here really!

Spaceship Earth - Sugar Loaf ; Liberty. “Life can Junior’s Eyes — Junior’s Eyes; Festival.I couldn’t pull you under and make you discontent. Y ou ve sit through all of it so I judged most of the album by got to control, whoa whoa whoa, your environment looking at the cover which you can do as well as I can, Maybe one day, the ecological-rock scene will make it. so I’ll say no more. But not with Sugar Loaf.

Open Up the Door — The Humblebums; Translantic. A duo that have all the musical eclectism of a McCartney album. Rock and roll, blues, country, ballads and blue- grass. Very relaxing.

jules lewicki HT32 his stay on earth (Ernesto Conzales Bermejo & Luc Chessex/ Prensa Latina )

La Paz, Bolivia: Sometimes they're mous end of a life and the demolishing shift restaurants serve chicken and some insignificant villages, cometimes a small strength of an example. pork amid flies and unrecongnizable stream that dissapears in the jungle, a garbage; streets which go down to the A town like many others - with footpath, a rustic sugar m ill, a simple river, between adobe houses sagging with its main plaza, its dried-up fountain, a peanant, or just a tree, one like all age, small businesses in the doors of bust in memory of someone, a stone others. houses selling Gillette, Johnny Walker, quarry, the town hall with its clock But when you speak to these peo­ Phillips, noodles next to perfume; until ple and they say: "Che was here", ' 'Che perpetually pointing to ten minutes past five, the pharmacy of Don Julio Duran, they reach the almost dry river, dotted spoke to him "; when from the top of a with a few faded barges. mountain 200 metres high, somebody the Montesclaros dry-goods store, the shop of Dona Eva who also rents out A town like any other, submerged points out the ravines, the valies, the in a vegetable-like boredom — because rivers - El Mascirui and El Grande — rooms, and the church of course, a little presumptuously called "The Cathedral" the soldiers with their camouflaged all enveloped in clouds, and says: The suits, their noisy trucks and marches, guerilla zone where Che operated', then, A town just like any other, under have gone away; so have the journalists suddenly all this becomes history, some­ the rain that sorrowfully drizzles down with their cameras and portable type­ thing that you know will outlive men on the climbing, loose-adobe paved writers — because the guerrillas are and time. streets, trodden on by wise burros, bare­ dead. Tiny points and beings that would foot children, women invariably wrapped But the town still talks about them, never be found on any map or in any in black shawls who go to market on because there in Valle Grande is the memory, are now the centre of world Sundays — where from miles around the "Senor de Malta" Hospital where they attention because of their association peasants come with their arms full of brought the still-warm body of Che and with one man, one name, w ith the enor­ potatoes or onions or apples, and make­ where everybody in town went to see

Left: The "Senor de Malta" hospital where Che's body was laid.

HT33 Left: Posters and banners of Che Guevara on a building in La Paz.

Below: Father Rogers, from the town of Pucara where Che was heading when he was killed.

and to sneak away a lock of his hair, They thought he had died but his and people cried and soldiers posted defiant image has returned to the capital every few meters restlessly clutched of his assassination. their rifles - because there lying in the In the streets, in the stores, in the "Pozas del Panteon" where a truck universities of La Paz, Che lives the life dumped them are the bodies of Joaquin he chose with his death: to be the people. and his men - because over there's the cemetery where, they say. secret burial Father Rogers lives there — a Swiss was given to some guerrilla — finally who came five years ago. "When I found because something more powerful than out that Che was a prisoner in La Higuera, silence, monotony and sorry, lives on in I got a horse and dashed out there. I the very air of Valle Grande. wanted to tell him: 'You're not washed

HT34 Right: Looking down into the village of La Higuera.

up. God still believes in you'. On the way too memorable, some because they helped I met a peasant: 'Don't hurry anymore, to commit it. Father', —he said, 'they've killed him.' I hurried even more and arrived just when They tore down the old schoolhouse, the helicopter was about to take off. the scene of the crime. And in the same Somebody shouted: Wait, wait! There's place they built a "sanitary post", the Father Rogers!' 1 arrived in time to say only one miles aroundr But it has never a prayer over his body, already tied on had a doctor, nor a nurse, nor medicines. to the runners".

La Higuera is a village of 500 inhab­ Today the place has become a school itants. The people don't want to talk. again, "tem porarily' . Some th irty peasant Some because they fear reprisals from children go there. "What do you know the Armed Forces; others because they about Che? " I asked one of them when fear reprisals from the National Liberation the teacher wasn't looking, "that's him Army. Everybody because they know there", he answered, pointing to a pic­ they have the dubious honor of a crime ture of Simon Bolivar.

Right: Children at school in the "sanitary post' 1 built in place of the old school- house.

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