{Rje ©ttfee Chronicle EXTRA Volume 65, Number 135 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Sunday, May 17, 1970 Anti-war rally hears Fonda, Davis, Lane By David Pace author of "Rush to Judgment," were Managing Editor arrested and confined to the fort for passing Special to the Chronicle out leaflets to GI's explaining their rights in FAYETTEVILLE, N.C- Nearly 1500 the Army. people descended on Ft, Bragg here The rally, which lasted for nearly three yesterday, some distributing leaflets, but most talking to GI's in an effort to gain hours, featured speeches by Fonda, Rennie support within the military for the Davis, a member of the Chicago 8, Lane, and disengagement of the United States from the several members of the local GI's united war in Indochina. against the war in Vietnam. The speakers The action at Ft. Bragg followed a rally in were disrupted several times by hecklers Rowan Street Park in downtown, from the crowd. Fayetteville attended by over 3000 people.' Lane brought the overheated crowd to The rally and the discussion at Ft. Bragg their feet with a burst of applause when he marked the first time in recent months that said: a significant number of blacks participated "Nixon is scared because we have closed in the anti-war movement. down the colleges of this country and 13 arrests because we have cancelled Armed Forces Thirteen people, including actress Jane Day. Fonda, singer Barbara Dane, and Mark Lane, "They have Judge Hoffman, but we have Jane Fonda speaking at yesterday's anti-war fally in Fayetteville. Davis. They have the generals, but we .have the GI's. Let us remind the 10,000 march in New York City army that as we built this army man for man. we will take it apart man by man." Lane also claimed President Armed Forces Day activities vary Nixon has asked the Rand Corporation to investigate the feasibility of not holding the 1972 (C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service announcement of the cancellation America to force an end to the There were no politicians in view NEW YORK-About 10,000 of the ceremonies was made on fighting in Vietnam. at the New York parade, apparently elections if the present disturbances military men marched down Fifth Friday, 3000 anti-war In Chicago, all Armed Forces because an appearance could be continued across the country. Avenue without incident yesterday demonstrators massed outside the Day activities were canceled at the construed as taking a position on After his speech. Lane explained big Great Lakes Naval Training the war. There were only two signs that he had learned about the in celebration of Armed Forces base but were prevented from Center. Rear Admiral H.S. Renkin Day. entering by a line of soldiers. Some of dissent along the route—a youth investigation from articles in the said the cancellation was made waving a skull-and-crossbones flag Washington Post and the Los The participants in the 21st youths tried to outflank the troops because dissident elements posed a and another with a placard reading Angeles Free Press two weeks ago. annual parade, marching in a light by running through the woods, but threat to visitors. No drizzle, were received with state police stopped them. A demonstrations materialized. "are you a Fascist? Think about applause, cheers and flag-waving by half-dozen demonstrators were it." (Continued on Page 4) the spectators lining the avenue. A clubbed. number of bystanders held up At ft. Meade, Md. where placards reading "We Love Our ceremonies were also canceled, Country," "Supplort the President" about 300 anti-war youths— UFC: students will have week and the like. perhaps 30 of them off-duty GI's in Elsewhere in the nation, Armed civilian clothes—heard Abbie Forces Day ceremonies were Hoffman, one of the Chicago Seven canceled at 23 military bases defendants, call for a "war of to take part in fall campaigns because of threats of peace liberation"- by young people here in demonstrations. By Ralph Karpinos 'Work through system* At Fort Dix, N.J., where Assistant Managing Editor In presenting the original resolution Blackburn The Undergraduate Faculty Council last Thursday explained that the cancellation of classes would be approved a proposal encouraging students to offered as an amendment to allof UFC members to participate in the fall election campaigns but voted approve the of classes would be offered as an Weather not to cancel classes for election day, Nov. 3, and the amendment lo allow UFC members to approve the 50% chance of showers or two days immediately preceeding and following it. When he proposed the original resolution, thundershowers today, with The motion approved by the council urged faculty- Blackburn explained that the policy committee's highs in the 70's. Fair or members "not to schedule examinations or to require resolution "grows out of conversations between clearing tonight, with lows in papers to be turned in from Oct. 29—Nov. 9. students, faculty, and administrators." the middle 50's. 1970." Immediately after this resolution was The resolution. Blackburn said, would "make it For those taking the beach moved by John Blackburn, chairman of the possible for students to work through the system." option, Monday will be fair eeconomics department and provost-elect, who was The resolution passed by the UFC also urged representing the policy sub- committee of the UFC, faculty members "to deal sympathetically with and mild with highs in the George Pearsall, acting dean of the school of 70's. (Also good weather for student requests to make up work missed earlier in engineering, proposed the amendment calling for the term for reasons of political participation." burning used chapter room classes to be dismissed Nov.2—Nov. 4. furniture.) (Continued on Page 4) Anti-war efforts continuing at Duke By Bob Heller weeks' canvassers. covered easily in three days. In another development, George Herbert, News Editor After sifting through reports by the Bill Kennedy, a leader of the Political president of the Research Triangle Institute, The return of over 3,000 signed letters, canvassers, Hahn reported that he felt 80 to Action Committee (PAC), will be talking will personally see Galifianakis and present urging North Carolina congressmen to vote 90% of the Durham community had been with individual high school principals him with several hundred anti-war letters. for bills embargoing funds for the Southeast contacted. Booths will continue to be towmorrow and Tuesday, as to the Hahn expressed his hopes that a group of Asis conflict Friday prompted Jeff Hahn to manned at Forest Hills, Northgate and possibility of talking to students. Durham citizens, "a lower class white say, "Durhan is definitely an anti-war city," Lakewood shopping centers this week. Kennedy and Hahn will go to Washington people, businessmen, black, student to a gathering of 150 students who had been While most of yesterday's activities were Tuesday to present Representative Nick coalition," would get together and lobby canvassing the Durham area last week. centered around Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, Galifianakis with hundreds of letters, and early this week in Washington. "This "Conservatively speaking, over 30,000 several students stayed in Durham to leaflet u rge him to unequivocally support the would be alot more impressive than just letters were taken by the citizens who were in the shopping areas. The most successful anti-war legislation. students," contended the leader. contacted," Hahn, a leader of the canvassing report came from Forest Hills, where 216 of If Galifianakis does not voice his support Today's activities will center around local effort, told the Chronicle last night. the anti-war letters were signed in just two of the congressional action, Hahn is churches, which will be leafletted. The "We are obviously very pleased," the hours. considering supporting a third candidate in speakers' union, a part of PAC, will also be political science graduate student continued, Over 300 students participated in last the fall election. contacting religious groups today. "that our operation was so successful." week's canvassing, and Hahn expects at least Around the area, UNC has already Last week's leafletting had such an As the result of a vote at the Friday 100 to continue this week. completely covered Chapel Hill, and N.C. apparently staggering effect, that the meeting, the outlying areas of Durham "We'll be better organized for the county State's "peace retreat" is in the process of sociology and psychology departments at County willbe canvassed beginning area," the leader said, "because now we covering Raleigh. Duke a re conducting a survey of the tomorrow morning. An estimated 50,000 know what to expect. We have 350 packets Area leaders will get together today at canvassers and those who were canvassed to additional people will be contacted by this set up for the county, so it should be Chapel Hill to discuss their various programs. see exactly what the overall effect w is. Page Two The Duke Chronicle Sunday, May 17, 1970 ' Is the Revolution coming?' I. 'Something is happening, Mr. Jones' By David McReynolds (C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service the Russian instituions combined with the Black Panthers, the failure of the nature of the central government. Editor's note: The following articles are disaster of the war. When the Czar stumbled When is a revolution justified? Is America part of a symposium on revolution in government to check inflation or to wage a from power in April of 1917, it was a meaningful war on poverty—all of these in such a bad state that a revolution is America conducted by the New York Times. surprise to everyone, including Lenin. David McReynolds is the field screiary of provoke a loss of confidence in the (Which suggests that while we may talk legitimization of the establishment. justified now? Revolutions are like" the War Resister's League and author of the about revolutions, we cannot predict them.) earthquakes. They are tragic, they cannot be booh, "We Have Been Invaded by the 21st Century." Revolutions do not occur because of The hypocrisy of the "respectahle predicted, they do not require justification, Are we in the beginning of a second massive social tensions that demand change, establishment" is demonstrated by New they cannot really be organized. Revolutions American Revolution? Yes and no. combined with a political establishment occur when they occur. They are not caused unwilling or unable to make those changes. York Times editorials demanding criminal by conspiracies. prosecution of the handful of terror Paradox: Revolutions can occur only That situation exists today in America. Fatal mistakes bombers in and out nation, while failing to What is the aim, beyond destroying the after they have occurred. Marx's call for demand similar criminal prosecution of system, of present-day revolutionaries? revolution in 1848 was based on the Nixon has made the fatal mistake of declaring war on our youth (through his Nixon and all the officers of the government Revolutions, from ours of 1776 through the revolutionary changes that had already who have conspired in the massive bombing" Russian, Chinese, and Cuban, have shared a occurred—the emergence of the proletariat. noisome little mouthpiece, Spiro Agnew) and of seeking the allegiance of Southern of Vietnam and the waging of a war in which common set of values: freedom, justice, Revolution as we usually use the word more than a million have died and an entire wider distribution of power to previously means the violent effort to create new whites rather than the confidence of American blacks and American youth. In the nation has been ravaged. powerless and oppressed elements of the institutions to help share power among the society. new social forces. short run, it is a successful strategy. In the long run, it will prove a disaster. Greater Threats Few revolutions have a blueprint of what- Blacks, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and The Pentagon is a greater threat to they actually will do, and those blueprints In England and in the Scandinavian are usually scrapped as unusable once the countries, the creation of Democratic youth do not constitute a majority, but they American institutions than the Weathermen. are a massive force of social energy and they Spiro Agnew is the real organizer for the revolution has occurred. For myself, I favor political parties (a debt we owe the wider distribution of power away from the Marxists), trade unions and cooperatives all are unable to feel respect for—or any sense violent fringe—every speech he makes drives of shared power in—the present white a few more deeply concerned students into central government directly to communities, served to distribute political power to the and I favor the unilaterial disbanding of our proletariat without a violent convulsion. establishment, made up of the military, the the tragic tactic of armed resistance. The corportions. the conservative AFL-CIO. most "revolutionary agent" of the moment military machine, so that it can not oppress In Russia, the revolution occurred less us or anyone else. because of the proletariat—a small group in The Chicago trial, the search and destroy is simply the war itself, which daily missions the police carry out against the persuades more Americans of the criminal I would fear a revolutionary military 1917—then because of the inflexibility of (Continued on Page 4) II. Revolution: 6a fantasy' By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

(C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service Close to the mark insurrection really believe that Jerry Rubin, and excluded Americans into the national Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an adviser to Many criticisms launched by the New Eldridge Cleaver and Herbert Marcuse will community, he has evidently decided to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. His book, Left are uncomfortably close to the mark. bring more armed men into the streets than accept and exploit the division and side with "A Thousand Days," won him the Pulitzer By forcing the rest of us to take a fresh look George Wallace, Ronald Reagon and John those he considers the majority. Instead of a Prize. at injustices too complacently accepted or Mitchell? politics of reconciliation, he has chosen the The notion of a New Left revolution in too benignly neglected, the New Leftists Future to the right? politics of polarization and has unleashed the United States—in the sense of a forceful have played an undoubted role in Should the New Left bring down the the vice president for this purpose. overthrow of the present system—remains a stimulating the national conscience. fabric of civility in our society and make To the courts fantasy in spite of the revolutionary stimulus But saying something like this drives force the final court of appeal, they seal One of the few remaining institutions of recently provided by President Nixon with many New Leftists into a fury. Their their own fate and hand the future to the reconciliation, for example, has been the his invasion of Cambodia and his obsessive anxiety is that society may absorb right. The New Leftists can't make a Supreme Court; to this, almost alone in the encouragement of action against the "bums" them as licensed rebels and professional revolution, but they might conceivably make panoply of Washington, the alienated groups on campus. entertainers. Some New Leftists invite such a counter-revolution. felt they could look for justice. President- The New Left has revolutionary dreams, roles, of course, and display obvious relish Obviously there are times and places Nixon's determination to convert the not revolutionary plans. It has no program when offered the chance to bring their act when revolution is justified. The Declaration Supreme Court into one more arm of the for overthrowing the system and no program into college lecture halls or television of Independence offers a lucid explanation established order can only deprive rebeis for imposing or constructing a new system. studios. But the more angry among them are of the conditions that make revolution against the system of a last reason to retain For the New Left, revolution is what they propoelled by the fear of 'cooperation' into legitimate and necessary. But, however faith in the constitutional process. term in their patois a 'life-style': it is not an drastic attitudes and actions. When this deplorable the present situation of the His determination to intensify and widen overreaching conspiracy. happens, their fantasy loses touch with United States, it can hardly be said that we the Vietnam War in spite of congressional New Leftists, in short, are fantasts of reality. It has carried some, of them into have exhausted nonrevolutionary remedies. and popular opposition can only increase revolution. They see politics as theater and realms of hysteria where their gospel of love Still the fashion of revolutionary talk—the disenchantment with the Democratic week to make cautionary and symbolic becomes an injunction to hate and they seek fact that the times should stage this process. points against the rigidities and hypocrises of to verify fantasy by violence. symposium— ought to convey a warning to Should the Administration thus continue contemporary life. The more literally they take their our leaders. to make our institutions more rigid and By being systematically outrageous, they revolutionary dreams, the more they For, though our internal divisions are not regressive, our internal divisions will aim to expose and explode the cant that jeopardize the revolution of which they revolutionary, they are acute and ominous. certainly deepen. As John F. Kennedy once envelops them. When their fantasy maintains dream. If, through their cult of disruption President Nixon announced after the said, "Those who make peaceful revolution touch with reality—as was once the case with and destruction, the New Leftists should election that his purpose was to "bring us impossible will make violent revolution Tom Hayden as a reformer and may still be ever succeed in turning American society together," but his policies have only driven inevitable." the case with Abbie Hoffman as a into a competition of unreason, hysteria and us further apart. satirist—they can be effective. (Continued on I guerrilla warfare, do these playboys of Instead of trying to bring the estranged J3) Women's Lib: pro and con By Jinx Johnstone liberation; they are in no sense interrupted, therefore they do not Bra in-children." Tornquist -Blacks- East Campus Reporter non-free." reach their earning peak." responded that "the lack of women "It is very difficult in this "I don't think women are Van den Haag suggested women geniuses was irrelevant." (Continued from Page 4) society to be both a woman and a oppressed; therefore I don't think wait until they are 35 or 40 before "We have lots of hang-ups," and several others caucused in the person," said Elizabeth Tornquist they can be liberated. What they they have children so that talented Tornquist said, "because of the way hallway of city hall. Mon night at a dialogue sponsored want is equality and there is a wormen can "have a taste of we've been brought up." The mayor later said he did not by the Toqueville Society. The difference." career" before choosing to sacrifice "We've been taught to believe believe the officers would be program, entitled "Women's Regarding the inequality in it in order to have a family. we're inferior to men; we breathe it required to givetestimony under Liberation: a pro and con women's wages, van den Haag said, "One plausible answer to in with the air. Women have to oath, and the committee, composed discussion," presented Dr. Ernst "Women get paid less because of women's peculiar lag in support a family, too. I don't want of two black attorneys and throe van der Haag opposing the Women's market factors. Wages are not a achievement, van den Haag said, is to say who's really on top, it's a white attorneys appointed by the Liberation Movement. moral consideration, they depend the fact that men have only one toss-up, this society makes it hard mayor, had no legal power to go According to van den Haag, on supply and demand. way to immortalize themselves or for anyone to be a person," she beyond making a report to the "women clearly don't want ''Women's careers are to be creative, and that's through said. public on its findings. Sunday, May 17, 1970 The Duke Chronicle Page Three From the real world (C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—Administration officials at the Florida White House said yesterday they had every reason to believe that the Saigon Government would with draw its combat troops from Cambodia at the same time that American Troops are scheduled to pull out, around July 1. The officials also expressed hope that the Allied military thrust would show the communists the wisdom of bargaining seriously at the Paris Peace Table. SAN FRANCISCO—Fire insurance for colleges and universities has become increasingly more expensive as a result of student disorders and campus arson. Some companies have felt compelled to raise rates five fold and also require the school to assume a much higher initial loss before making a claim. PNOMPENH—Cambodia's second most important city was in imminent danger last night of falling into the * hands of the Vietnamese rebels. The capture of Kompong Cham would place the enemy on the western bank of B the Mekong River in sufficient strength to constitute a major threat to the Cambodian capital, Pnompenh, which a is only 45 miles to the southwest by road. > o WASHINGTON—In a lengthy article in the current issue of Life magazine, former Defense Secretary Clark I o Clifford sharply criticized President Nixon for his "reckless decision" to enter Cambodia. Clifford asserted that If "President Nixon is taking our nation down a road that is leading us more deeply into Vietnam rather than taking Ft. Bragg as seen from behind the barbed wire. us out." Putfnshed every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of th* University year except during university holiday and exam periods by the students of Duke University, Durham, N.C. Second class postage paid at Durham, N.C. Delivered by mail at 110.00 per year. Subscriptions, In Augusta, Ga. letters, and other inquiries should be mailed to Box 4496, Duke Station, j Oufham. N.C. 27706. G*UrSCH I Three of six slain: 'innocent bystanders Not clear man started to run and the cop cut By James T. Wooten "Decades of racism," said Grady times before, that juvenile prisoners Abrams, one of four black members like Charles Oatman, who was It was then after 5 p.m. and down on him...he wasn't killed (C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service what happened next is not precisely because the policeman shot at his AUGUSTA, GA.-Three of the of the 16-man city council. mentally retarded, not be confined "A comunist conspiracy," said in the county jail. clear. legs," the man said. six blacks killed by policemen here Tear gas was used, but one this week were unarmed bystanders Gov. Lester G. Maddox who Meanwhile, one of the younger dispatched 1200 national guard members of the crowd outside policeman said it "had absolutely who were, not involved in rioting, no effect on the crowd." Another One policeman said the riot according to several witnesses to troops to the city and later said the captured the Georgia and United might have been contained earlier if violence was the work of the black States flags from their staffs in said policemen were outnumbered fche shootings. five or six to one.j I lice had not waited so long to Witnesses also say that two Panthers. front of the buildings. Began Sunday Flag burned Most of the blacks left the others were killed in stores that scene, but a large group split into were being looted after violence The beginning was last Sunday, The state flag was burned, but when there seemed little likelihood the United States flag was handed smaller bands and began a night of 3y dusk Monday, smoke belched erupted in a black neighborhood arson, vandalism and looting. from the run-down bi'cmess area last Monday night. No witnesses to that anything extraordinary was to Lt. Thomas Olds, a black about to happen policeman in civilian attire. A black man who was in the •when many of Au^us ~, 35,000 the sixth shooting were found by blanks spend much of their three New York Times reporters It was a warm day, although original group said he was surpirsed Capt. James G. Beck, who is that the police waited as long as incomes, which averar.! $2,600 a who questioned scores of Augusta many of Mrs. Carrie I. May's friends disliked and distrusted by many citizens—blacks and whites. were relaxing and enjoying a they did to open fire. He said they year per family. blacks appeared before the crowd did so only after the rioters began By midnight, gunfire cracked The witnesses who talked about leisurely afternoon, she was with 20 policemen holding riot working in her husband's mortuary stopping automobiles and dragging and sirens wailed. the shootings were blacks. The only guns chest high. Some of the vhite occupants from them. whites believed to have been on the in the heart of the black youngsters derided the stern-faced scene when the six men were shot neighborhood preparing the frail, but silent policemen. "There was this black man By dawn Tuesday, the six men were policemen, and police officials 104-pound body of Charles breaking into a car and a police car were dead and national guard Oatman, a 16 year-old accused Beck, who was later identified as came up and the cop got out with a have urged them not to make the source of the order to begin troops were moving into the public statements until a police murderer who was taken from a shotgun and yelled, 'halt,' but the smoldering city. crowded cell at the county jail the shooting at the rioters, made no investigation has been completed. move to retrieve the burning flag, Findings made evening before and pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital. and the crowd of blacks headed In the four tense days since "I saw right off somebody had downtown. U.S. lied about arias rioting began in this half-black, really lit into the boy," she recalled When they reached the corner of half-white city of 70,000, the three nervously. "He had been beaten Ninth Avenue and Gwinnet Times reporters also made the something awful, and there were Avenue, some of them began to Cambodian troops following findings: cigarette burns on his hands and throwing rocks and bottles and (C) 19 70 N.Y. Times News Service military assistance. —Witnesses believed policemen feet, and—and—well, there were bricks at storefronts and passing WASHINGTON-The United This was disclosed yesterday by- did not fire in self defense. burns on his buttocks, too." cars. The men who had attended States secretly began supplying State Department officials. They —No weapons were found on the the meeting at city hall hurried to Cambodia with small arms last had been asked to clarify the legal bodies of the six men. Within hours, word of Mrs. the scene. The police were told that requirement that Congress be May's grim observation, which was the black leaders could handle the April 25 while the Nixon —Few members of the 130-man administration said publicly that no notified if arms are given to a Augusta police department had later verified by an autopsy report, situation if there were no foreign nation outside of amounts had spread through the black uniformed policemen around. decision had yet been made on received training in civil disorder or Premier Lon Nol's request for authorized in legislation. riot control techniques. community, gathering speed as it moved from corner to corner, The officials said that the law —A cornoer's inquest has been becoming first a volatile rumor and required that the State Department stymied by the p91ice department's then an unequivocal accusatory inform Congress within 30 days of reluctance to provide members of assertion that Charles Oatman had Vets work for peace arms supplied from United States the force to testify as witnesses to been murdered by policemen in his defease stocks. They said the the six deaths. cell at the county jail. department had 10 days left to during the summer, he said. When comply with the notification —None of the dead men was Out of hand By Ralph Karpinos he gets back from Philadelphia, his involved in social activism, and "Before anybody could get to requirement because M-2 carbines The group calls itself "Veterans home town, in September, and other small arms were first none had taken part in protest the truth of the Oatman boy's Meyrowitz will try "to coordinate Against the War" and has a current : airlifted to Pnompenh on April 25. demonstrations that preceded the death, the thing had gotten out of the work of the 'Veterans' . the violence. hand," said Evan Bush, a young membership of about 100, Lee During the week when the Meyrowitz, a veteran of the congressional election caiu^iigns." — The poI icemen's orders to black who attempted to keep he said. United States launched the arms begin shooting were issued by a others off the streets Monday night Vietnam war and organizer of the airlift to Cambodia. White House group, said yesterday. Meyrowitz said he represented white capitain who was reported to and on the nights since. veterans from UNC at a meeting and State Department spokesmen Meyrowitz and about 20 others told nc .en inquiring about the be generally disliked and distrusted On Sunday evening, about 200 held last week in Washingt ... The by members of the black in the group attended yesterday's stat.J of Lon Nol's request that it blacks gathered in a park and then rally in Fayetteville. Their signs meeting, he said, brought together remained under active community. marched to the jail after hearing No Comment could be seen scattered among the consideration but that no decision that the dead youth had been trees in Rowan Park. had been made. The Augusta police department tortured and beaten. A news feature has refused comment on the The group started Sheriff E.F. Atkins told them "spontaneously," Meyrowitz said, shootings. that the boy had fallen from his cot "about 600 students from all of "We are investigating them after he made a brief speech "at a North Carolina and the state's and struck his head, but his UNC Strike rally May 5, following ourselves, and when we are finished explanation did not satisfy black congressmen and senators." we will make our reports public." a leaders, who arranged to meet with Some members of his group, spokesman said Friday. county officials and Mayor Millard tne killing of the four students at Meyrowitz said, "are former •Fantasy- The Federal Burueau of A, Beckum Monday afternoon. Kent State." officers, including ex-captains and Investigation has also begun an On Monday morning. Atkins Meyrowitz. who served "as a ex-majors, now on the UNC inquiry into the deaths, and a team announced that murder charges had pointman in the 101st Airborne in faculty. Some." he said, "are WW-I1 of criminal investigators from the 'Nam' from 1965-1966," said the veterans." (Continued from Page 2) been filed against two blacks who But also, in the words of Adam civil rights division of the justice had been in the cell with the dead group is still "local and includes Many, like Meyrowitz himself, department is studying the violence mostly people at UNC." are UNC students and Vietnam Smith, there is a lot of ruin in a younster. country. The further hardening of to determine if federal law was That afternoon, the leaders went "Soon, perhaps in the fall," he veterans. violated. said, "the group hopes to affiliate Meyrowitz said he attended the Nixon policies will, I trust, lead to the city-county building, and a to an overthrow of the government, Meanwhile, there are only a few crowd of about 500 demonstrated with the national 'Veterans for Gill ford College in Greensboro here who leel certain about the Peace." "before enlisting in the Army in but through elections, not peacefully outside. The leaders, explosions. riot's origins. asked, as they had asked several The group will continue to work 965. -UCX^MA"^ Page Four The Duke Chronicle Sunday, May 17, 1970 Former student I Blacks killed in Jackson

By Roy Reed siad. These officers, and 10 others No snipers who were not witnesses to the Black students and other shot near Brown (C) 1970 N.Y. Times News Service shooting, were invited to give observers insisted that they had By Ed Harrison JACKSON. MISS..-A bi-racia committee investigating the slaying testimony to the committee, the heard no sniper fire. They called Police Reporter of two blacks by the Mississippi first bi-racial group ever to the killings, "unprovoked murder" A former Duke student. Rob Brezsney. was shot and injured by two Highway Patrol" here Thursday investigate racial deaths in the and demanded that the highway men behind Brown House at about 1:30 on Saturday morning. night encountered initial resistance history of Jackson. patrolmen be punished in court. Brezsney, on a leave of absence from Duke this semester, was visiting yesterday from several Jackson Community tense As if to demonstrate how little friends in Durham. When shot, lie was walking across East Campus from policemen asked to testify. The committee opened its faith they had in the Onslow Street to go in the direction of the downtown bus depot. Mayor Russell C. Davis, who investigation as the tense black white-dominated courts of The victim said yesterday that the two men stopped to ask him the community here planned to bury Mississippi, black leaders let it be location of the auditorium. When he answered "Do you mean Baldwin?", formed the committee after the shootings occurred on tiie Jackson the two vjctims and hold a series of known that a black defense league he heard them "playing with guns" ; d then was shot. One shot missed memorial services. Brezsney and the other, fired by the same man, hit him in the buttocks on State University campus, said was being formed to train black several officers had balked at The dead are James Earl IGreen, men in the use of guns. the right side of his body. 17 years old.a high school senior, testifying in the closed hearings but Davis expressed confidence that Brezsney said a Durham policeman informed him later that several and Philip L. Gibb , all black, were later reconsidered. the bi-racia! committee would get pieces of paper in his back pocket lessened his injury. The papers were wounded in the police gunfir The Davis, who has a reputation as a at the truth behind the events. completely "shot through," he said. debate intensified between the racial "moderate." said the officers When the committee began its After being shot. Brezsney said. "'I lay on the ground for about five black and white communities over were witnesses to the campus closed-door hearing yesterday minutes, because I thought they might blow my head off." He "hobbled" the question of what provocation shootings. morning several of the officers who into Brown House, where the desk girl, after some confusion, called the police had for the killings. Fourteen Jackson policemen had been asked to testify walked campus security, who in turn summoned a Durham Police Department The police and other white were on the campus when a squad out, appearing angry and flushed. ambulance. officials, as well as two daily of about 80 highway patrol officers "I ain't going to sign nothing," Brezsney was taken to Duke Hospital for treatment. He is a resident of newspapers here, argued that the with shot guns fired into a crowd of protested one of the officers as he Cherry Hill. New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, and was planning to about 200 blacks outside the police had fired in response to take a 2:30 bus to Philadelphia when the incident occurred. women's dormitory, the mayor sniper fire. (Continued on Page 2) The police told him he was shot with pellets from a 12-gauge shotgun. -McReynolds to Mr. Jones- (Continued from Page 2) free society. earlier display of guns. The and nonviolence to keep struggling. P.S. Just as I prepare to turn this as much as I fear the present one. What changes of success do the nonviolence of Cesar Chavez and The editor of Crawdaddy, a in, I learned troops opened fire on Invasion not likely revolutionaries have? On our own, the nonviolence of the leading "rock culture" paper, put students at Kent State in Ohio, Such an act would more likely very little. The central government draft-resistance movement suggest the thing perfectly when he said: killing four and wounding others. revolutionize the world as a whole, still commands the support of the that the compassionate tradition of 'Agnew Nixon and Mitchell will The military junta that rules us is in including the Soviet Union, than vast majority of citizens, though American radicalism, the tradition have to set to sea in a sieve." Sink the open. The changes for lead to our facing an invasion. The discussion of revolution helps to of Eugene Debs and Martin Luther they will—nothing in today's nonviolent and Democratic large corporations need to be remind people that revolution is a King, is not yet played out. politics is more certain. The solution—such as congressional broken into smaler units with very American process. Terror Is the revolution here? question is whether America will impeachment of Nixon and ownership and controls vested in bombings do more to build support Something is happening, Mr. Jones, sink with them. Agnew—fade hour by hour. communities and regions. for a police state than for but I'm not sure what is is. The Centralization of economic or revolution, and I suspect that bombings. The campus unrest. political power is dangerous to a government agents are involved in Hundreds jailed for resisting the UFC decision- some of the bombings. It is draft, thousands jailed on drug possible, that there will be no charges, tens of thousands fleeing (Continued from Page 1) revolution but that America, the to Canada, black leaders shot dead the suspension of classes because ot 125 organize most advanced power in the world, in their beds by Chicago cops, "No student, however, should the policy of open attendance and will prove unable to govern itself in Listen to rock music. Observe the request make-up privileges for a other machinery" which he said, any way and will sink into chaos, culture heroes of the youth period in excess of one week," the included incomand other to oppose Youth need to read less Mao and Lack Charisma resolution says. machinery" which he said, included Lenin and more about America. Popular as Nixon and Agnew 'Politicization' incompletes. "For us as a Chants of "Ho, Ho, Ho, Chi Minh" may be with a frightened middle Most of the discussion dealt with University to come out in favor of the draft are not revolutionary. Ho didn't America, they lack the charisma the amendment calling for the this would clearly show we are win power in Vietnam by chanting needed to sustain the kind of police cancellation of classes. interfeering in political affairs." By Bob Heller about Russia or China but by state the Attorney General is trying Dana Ripley, assistant professor affairs," he added, the "amendment dealing with Vietnamese problems, hard to fashion. I won't try to or Dana Ripley, assistant would in no way politicize this After just one day of soliciting The breakfast program of the predict the future—just urge those professor of romance languages. body or the University." Rather, on the main quad, the Duke Panthers is far shrewder than their of us who believe in Democracy said, "I do not see any reason for Thomas said, the amendment chapter of the Union for National would "positively affirm our Draft Opposition (UNDO) has committment to the American secured 125 members, according to political system." Ric Winters, an organizer for the •Ft. Bragg activities- newly-formed group. "While neither the council nor the University can properly take Thirty-five students attended the (Continued from Page 1) positions on political questions," group's initial meeting last should leaflet on bases. There is a tired of this goddamned war." the resolution says, "we Thursday afternoon, and nearly When contacted yesterday, military regulation that requires Clean uniforms recommend that individual 100 additional persons signed up newsmen at The Post told the you to petition in advance to leaflet The crowd roared its approval participation be made possible." Friday on the quad. Winters said in Chornicle they had received on bases, but there is nothing in the when Davis told them that "Agnew an interview Friday. Thomas McCollough, associate information for their story from a Constitution that requires you to is such a fool that he believes the professor of religion, said that the A meeting of national Portland, Ore., paper, but had not petition for your first amendment Viet Cong will lay down their arms "issue of politicization of the representatives (the organization succeeded in confirming the rights." if they don't have clean uniforms." faculty" which he said, was also claims chapters on over 70 information with the White House. The crowd responded with considered at the UFC's last campuses) will take place this The quip was in reference to a The speakers had to contend chants of "peace now, peace now," statement made by the meeting concerning the pass-fail Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday when Fonda said that "Nixon can option, was one which the group at Princeton, and the Duke chapter throughout the day with a minor vice-president last week in which he disruption in the form of a sit-in on ignore the Congress, he can ignore said the U.S. had achieved one of should "discuss or else not use as a. will have representatives at the the people, but he can't ignore basis for making decisions. meeting. Winters said the meetings the stage at the rally. Fifteen its objectives in Cambodia when a people had gathered on the stage thousands of his troops marching large laundry facility was will be mainly concerned with 'Strong majority' "tactical" matters. Friday night and remained there against his policies." discovered and destroyed by U.S. throughout the rally. For the most Independence troops. The amendment to cancel classes Activities planned for the part, the protestors were silent, but In a dynamic speech near the was defeated by a vote of about remainder of this school year end of the rally, Davis said that 22-26. The resolution itself carried include the canvassing of all dorms. an occasional outburst from those *'In seeking to destroy the occupying the stage brought "On July 4, women, blacks, browns sanctuaries in Cambodia," Davis with what James Price, the There will be no formal meeting, council's chairman and dean of but Winters said those who have repeated and, in many cases, curt and all people who are sick of this continued, "Nixon has made the retorts from the unsympathetic war are going to declare their war an Indochina war with China as undergraduate education called "a joined will be contacted over the strong majority'" summer. audience. independence from the Agnew the sanctuary." nation." President Terry Sanford had Anyone interested in joining Heads examined Fonda told the crowd that ' 'The first act of our new After his speech, Davis was been quoted in the Charlotte UNDO, either male or female, Observer as saying students would should contact Bill Wilson or "people who think patriotism nation," Davis said, "will be to arrested by Fayetteville police for means my country right or wrong declare war on the Nixon war obscenity in his speech. As the be given a week off from classes to Dennis Waxckowsi in House I work in the fail election campaigns. (6876), Dave Grim in Windsor should have their heads examined" machine. In this nation, police attempted to move him to (6202) or Ric Winters, at 682-7172. "Patriotism," she said, " is insubordination to an officer will the police station, demonstrators Last Wednesday, however, the fighting for what is right about the be considered an act of love, and a blocked the car temporarily, but Chronicle reported that Sanford Literature can be obtained at the felt the Observer had UMCA office-, 102 Flowers. country and doing away with what dishonorable discharge deserves the moved back at the urging of medal of honor." marshals from the crowd. misunderstood Sanford's statement. Winters said he hopes for a is wrong." "None of us are free, and you've Davis explained that in the first Davis was released on $200 TheObserver Sanford said, "took "huge" Duke membership and for granted" the things which are contended that "interested people got to get hip to that," Fonda week of July, a national GI strike bond, and his trial was set for continued. was planned in which, he said, tomorrrow. Reports last night going to happen. The proposal wlio oppose the draft in any way, "must be approved by the UFC and shape or form, not necessarily She said, "Students should half-a-million GI's are going to call indicated that Davis would be in subscribe to GI newspapers and in and say that they are "sick and Fayetteville for the trial. other bodies," before it could take resisting, should join. effect, Sanford said last week.