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DECEMBER 21, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 47 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY /PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE ' Target: Blacks, socialists -page6 A Militant exclusive: text of Hoover orders -page7 Did FBI agent set up Fred Hampton killing? };/.{iii§! -page9 FBI spy is uncovered in San Diego frame-up -page 9 In Brief NEW VICTORIES FOR MICHIGAN UFW SUPPORT SUPREME COURT 1: In a blow to civil liberties, the ERS: Farm workers and· supporters won fresh victories Supreme Court refused Dec. 3 to overturn a ruling that when the largest buyers of non-UFW lettuce and grapes judges in Massachusetts need not allow Black defendants THIS in the Detroit area, the 84 Farmer Jack supermarkets, the right to question potential jurors about racial preju agreed to UFW demands to stop selling the scab pro dice. WEEK'S duce. Justice Thurgood Marshall, William Douglas, and Wil Another victory was registered when a circuit court liam Brennan dissented from the court's ruling, which judge dismissed charges against 81 boycott picketers ar differed from a similar case in South Carolina in which MILITANT rested last week for violating an injunction that was later it ruled in favor of Black defendants. 3 Truckers protest energy struck down. Prior to their hearing Dec. 5, 250 people policies held a protest rally outside the courthouse. SUPREME COURT II: In another recent decision, tht: 4 'Anger rises as energy high court voted· not to review a lower court's decision crisis deepens CHICAGO STUDENTS OUST SCAB LETTUCE: Stu that requires male Indian students at an Oklahoma junior dents at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle campus high school to clip their tribal braids. 5 Arab oil boycott & have won the removal of all non-UFW lettuce from school Justices William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall dis world politics cafeterias. sented from the lower court's opinion, calling it "a coercive 7 SWP Wgate suit goes The school administration acceded to this demand after assimilation policy, denigrating and seeking. to abolish after Nixon aides the campus UFW support committee organized a cam cultural differences," and causing Indian students to re 8 Ramsey Clark appeals paign of petitioning and speaking before classes, and gard the school "as an alien institution." for aid to N.Y. bomb held meetings and a rally last month. The director of the Chicago Circle Center, however, complained to the victims chancellor that the decision had been "pressured" by mili 13 Pressure mounts for Nix tant students, and urged the chancellor not to approve Help us publish , on's resignation it. The final report on The Militant's Forty-fifth Anni 14 300 East Coast trade Boycott activists responded with a delegation to the versary Fund will appear in our next issue. There union women meet administration demanding implementation of the earlier is stifl time to make a contribution- any amount decision. The scab lettuce was removed the next day. 15 Miners approve new will be appreciated and put to good use in our contract demands battle against rising costs. Readers who have made 16 Behind UFT-Shanker a pledge should rush their payment to us now. raid on AFSCME Make checks payable to The Militant Forty-fifth 17 Mideast 'peace' confer Anniversary Fund. Send to 14 Charles Lane, New ence York, N.Y. 10014. 19 The Militant sates drive 21 Interview with Mario Cantu YOUNG SOCIALIST SALES TOP GOAL: Supporters of the Young Socialist, the monthly revolutionary socialist 24 N. Calif. carpenters youth newspaper, have successfully completed a fallsales defy gov't order drive to achieve monthly sales of 10,000 copies. Sales reached 10,616 for the November issue. 2 In Brief The South Boston Young Socialist Alliance set the pace 10 In Our Opinion by selling 541 papers-135 percent of their local goal Letters of 400. The highest total number of YSs were sold by 11 National Picket Line the Upper West Side and Lower Manhattan New York YSA locals, reaching totals of 803 and 740 respectively. By Any Means Neces In all, 20 YSA locals and other areas with YS support sary ers that accepted sales goals met or surpassed them last 12 Great Society month. These high November figures bring the fall Young Women in Revolt Socialist sales average to 9,100 per·month-an increase La Raza en Accion of more than 2,000 since spring. WORLD OUTLOOK D. C. BOYCOTTERS PICKET SAFEWAY: The largest volume Safeway store in the Washington, D. C., area was 1 Student protests continue INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY AND GOVERNMENT SNOOP picketed last week by 100 farm workers and supporters in Thailand ERS: 1n a classic fox-guarding-the-chicken-coop case, Tom for continuing to carry scab lettuce and grapes. Charles Huston recently ended a one-year term with the 2 British unions defy wage All potential shoppers, including those who drove into Census Bureau's committee on privacy and confidentiali controls; Heath declares the parking lot, were leafleted. Many walked away; others, ty. Huston, the mastermind of the 1970 White House spy 'state of emergency' in cars, immediately headed for the nearest exits. When plan, is a defendant in the Socialist Workers Party suit 3 Iranian intellectual people turned away, picketers burst out with loud cheers. against illegal government harassment and surveillance. The store's business was significantly decreased. -BAXTER SMITH arrested, tortured The picket, which was the largest and most successful 4 Bolivia: the workers in D. C. in recent months, was joined by hospital workers movement revives from George Washington University Hospital, members of the Washington Teachers Union, American Federation of Government Employees Local 41, and Cooks Local 209. YOUR FIRST The picket line was also joined by a group of sight THE MILITANT seeing high school students from New Orleans and several VOLUME 37/NUMBER 47 participants in a Georgetown University impeachment con ISSUE? DECEMBER 21, 1973 ference. aOSING NEWS DATE- DEC. 12, 1973 SUBSCRIBE Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS BuSiness Manager: SHARON CABANISS Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING Holiday schedule TO THE Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., The last issue of The Militant before our holiday break 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: MILITANT Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) will be dated Dec. 28. We will resume our regular weekly 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1107 1/2 N. Western schedule with the issue of Jan. 11, 1974. MINERS STRIKE: The Militant backs the coal miners of Har Ave., los Angeles, Calif. 90029. Telephone: (213) 463- If you subscribe to The Militant and plan to move lan County, Ky., in their battle with Duke Power Company. 1917. 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Signed qrticles by contributors do not necessarily for Women and the Women's Abortion _Action Committee. represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials. 2 Militant truckers tie up traffic to protest Nixon s energy policies By BAXTER SMITH said Jerry Muhanet, a protesting Ohio me." They sit there with glazed eyes from trucker, before he was handcuffed and Word of the truckers' protest quickly lack of sleep, drinking their coffee and whisked away by state police. "But reached the White House. A handful talking- angrily. now we can understand why those of representatives of the owner-opera Some recount stories of rough cop kids got killed. Hell, most of the guys tors were chosen to meet with Trans treatment they received in Ohio or here have fought wars to keep this portation Secretary Claude Brinegar. Pennsylvania. Others complain of the country free, but I guess the kids have They demanded a maximum price lowered speed limit, restrictions on fuel, taught us if you don't like the way of 35.9 cents per gallon for diesel fuel, a uniform nationwide speed limit of 65 mph on interstate highways, an end to police harassment of truckers, standardization and simplification of licensing and taxing laws, and a top priority -allocation of diesel fuel to truckers.