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The Weatherman leadership, which presently includes • Mark ·Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn and others, eince Oc.tober has bPen - reported meeting twice, once immediately following the pctobcr demon­ strations in a remote lllinois state park and again around Christmas . titne at Flint, Michigan. Subsequent Weatherman events have bet"n thr. e~plosion of the New York. bomb factory and a federal indictn1ent against - ll charged with violation of the riot laws in connection with the Chicago demonstration. • • Since last fall Weatherman philosophy has obviously changed from one of mass membership to one of an elite core of revolutionary terrorists (a revolution·ary vanguard). It cannot be logically suppose.d that the New York bomb factory waa the only one. • Widely circulated in recent weeks is a communrcation from the underground allegedly authored by Bernardine Oohrn, entitled "Declar-. ·. atinn of a State of W-ar. 11 Dohrn~ who has always been an outspoken Wt•atherman spokeswoman and is perhaps the mnst rabid fcmal<! radicnJ in thr. cnnntry, ·apt~aks in this cnmmunicati~n (a tapt- recordin1d in typical revolutionat1' rhetoric. Whether the voice is Dohrn's or n9t is insig­ nWcant becausr. the message transmitted is in tht- Weatherman mnod and had prophc sied that ~itltin tWo w~_oks Weatherman woul~ atta,·k·a. • .. • ...' 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'Ihe N~w c£U.:..,.. ... ·..., York bombing ls probably· the work.•of Weatherman and the Omaha ex- · /oi~(1~: ·. plosion may also be.· Tbe Dohm tape recQrding additionally identified •' · .,.t\J the thi-rd member killed in the New York bomb works blast. 'Ihe victim, says Dohrn, wae Terr,.·Robbina; and, although police authorities are unable to verify this clisciosure-, the whereabouts of Robbins is. · unknown. Robbins, like the two confirmed deaths (Diana Oughton and Theodore Gold) had a past ·record of eecond string Weatherman leadership. An interesting ·coincidence is that .RoblHns was active up until a year or ...··-~..:.. .. ., so ago on the campus of K_cnt State in Ohio. - · Only one of-many for whonl the police have been searching has .. thus far been found. Linda $ue Evans was arrested son1e week.,s ago in New York. Although the CIA has not been specilically identified as a prime Weatherman target. because of the organ'ization 1s place in "thc­ estahlishment." a cn,.tinuing bomb threat to Agency facilities cannot be disregarded. An attack on the Agency '!ould undoubtedly be considered a major coup within the radical movement. · • - The Weatherman events of past weeks, their lack of cooperation with other radical units and their vi~tual. disappcaT'ancr into the hippie and commune nether world indicates. an agreed-upon plan to foment ... '"·iolent revolution through their previously cnunciatcri "shock brigade-" tactics in a number of American ur\lan areas. The hostile and seriously .. alienated youth that comprise the present Weathertl);ln faction have ...'Ar.r threatened violence, a.nd it is believed that their threats must be taken .seriously. • • A se.rious breech. seems to have developed ·between the New • 4 M()bilization Comniittee to End the War in Vietnam and the once closely aHiliated.mcmber, the Socialist "'orkers' Party. This breech will .. probably widen during the coming summer months. At a New Mobc stcPring committee· conference at Atlanta in May, the New Mobe cold­ shnulder.cr1 a plan for this weekend's antiwar conference in Cleveland that was appArently ~ SWP brain child • • The!' New Mobc- in rt!ccnt wncks has alsn shown itself tn h(~ in a quandary over to continue 'Ctr discontinue. the n1ass rally conc:ept,that • • .:,.0.:: • . - .. 2 • • -.---------------------.--------------··-.:·--'-·--~ . 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' • has been succr.sslul· in. snme placc.s '>n some occasinns in the past. • The most·notable success w;a.s last November 15~ at Washington. · ·Although there is no question but what a well-planned rally can pro­ duce the bodies, New Mobe leaders·!ear that the festive atmosphere that increasingly creeps into the mass antiwar. anti-establishment ra~ies is counterproductive in two ways: lirst. nose count alone does not seem to· impress the establishment and second,. mass rallies are fast becomi~g 11 old hat11 .and thl participants are too interested .in rock music .and pot to car.e· much one way or the other what the radical political merchants are selling. Although they have not defined exactly what they mean, New Mobe spokesnlen ha~e now verbalized a need. for civil disobedience and direct action. This widely discussed tactical change to do away with the J11'&SB protest philosophy by the New Mobe · • ··has tendc'd tq alienate its former comrade in dissent, the SWP,. who still believes in the value or the mass demonstration and hastens to point out. that Hanoi likes them too. ., . The SWP, through its youtt; group, the Young Socialist Alliance, has indeed built a formidable masB·.movernent body in the form of the ~-. SMC (Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam). The - •... ::..- SWP undoubtedly sees its organization work within the SMC subverted by its .former New Mobe associates. .The SWP achUtionally takes umbrage - at the seemingly sincere bttt misgltided motives of sevetal New Mobe organizations to work lor peace candidates through the summer and into the fall. The SWP does not believe that such method~ are the road to .. American revolution. To further .c:ompl.icate the serious rifts and tn-!ighting amon.g the organizations of the radical left, the Maoist Progressive Labor Party . and the SWP1s Student Mobe have recently battled in Boston. It will be remembered-that last summer the PLP !action nf SDS split away at Chicago and formed the SDS Worker Student Alliance. On Z4 May the National Steering Committee of the Student Mobe met at Boston and the SDS/WSAers tried to crash the party. A battle ensued in which anum- .. ber of over-zealous .radicals were injured. · 'What is clearly implied is that the power factions in the doctrin­ aire c-nr:nmunist left in scrambling for movement snprcmcc:y will intcnsHy t.he battl" against one another in coming monLhs. In all nf this the Com­ munist Party, U.S.A. is tryinR to stand on the sideJinr.s and wiU pru­ bc:tbly c~V<!ntually pick up tho$. piec:es. The: CPUSA is unrluubtcdly the ln~st organized o! the old left and has the "coolest hand. • . .. ~ . ......... ..... -.: -,... 3 .. : . 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Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) program •peci{ies ttrree tnajor
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