FEBRUARY 16, 1973 25 CENTS VOLUME 37/NUMBER 6 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE aigon regime steps up terror campaign ~. <c;, Jan.31. Young Vietnamese refugees near Long Thanh, southeast of Saigon. Thieu regime is trying to prevent refugees from returning to areas controlled by NLF. Evelyn Reed on Catholic Church and women's right to abortiQ!l I N.Y. victory rally hails Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. See page 3. ·In Brief A NEW THREAT TO MARTIN SOSTRE: Not content D. A. IN TOMBS CASE FEELING THE PRESSURE: with framing him up on a narcotics charge and sending Admitting that "we're in a position where we're seemingly him to prison for 42 years, New York authorities are being vindictive," Manhattan District. Attorney Frank now trying to transfer Martin Sostre to the new Prescrip­ Hogan announced that he will go through with the prose­ THIS tion Center at the Dannemora State Mental Hospital. The cution of Herbert X Blyden and Stanley King for their Martin Sostre Defense Committee writes that "this is the part in the 1970 rebellion at the Manhattan House of WEEK'S maxi-maxi prison especially opened for inmates consid­ Detention (the Tombs). Hogan's statement followed the ered 'incorrigible.' Mind-destroying drugs, electro-shock dismissal of 72 out of the 77 charges against Blyden by treatments, lobotomies and other horrors are used here Judge Xavier Riccobono, and the announcement that MILITANT against militant prisoners who are considered trouble­ charges against King were being similarly reduced. 4 Watergate trail leads makers by the State." Blyden, who is scheduled to go on trial Feb. 13, now to White House Recently the chief prosecution witness against Sostre, faces a maximum of seven years imprisonment. He 5 U.S. fails in attempt to Arto Williams, admitted that he made a deal with the previously faced a life term. So far, four prisoners and deport Iranian Buffalo, N.Y., DA's office to frame Sostre in return for one guard who were tried on similar charges stemming dropping several felony charges against him. The Sostre from the Tombs rebellion have all been acquitted. In an­ 9 Paris accords & class Defense Committee is trying to have the case reopened nouncing the reduction of charges against King, Hogan struggle in Vietnam on the basis of this new evidence. In the meantime, it said, "we are not unmoved by the juries' assessment of 10 Gus Hall says CP wrong asks that letters protesting the transfer of Sostre to Danne­ the charges." for 30 years mora be sent to Commissioner of Corrections Russell 11 Funds needed to launch Oswald, Governor Smith Office Building, Box 7033, Al­ bany, N.Y. 12225. 'A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DISENCHANTMENT': YSA teams That was what the 14,398 votes that went to the SWP 12 Speedup, unemployment presidential ticket in Louisiana last November meant, keys to '73 'prosperity' according to Phil Seghers. Seghers, a writer for the Loui­ 13 Inside the Tombs March 8 actions will hit siana State University newspaper, tl;te Daily Reveille, also 14 St. Louis teachers strike believes that the large SWP vote indicated "a turning away from the McGovern political camp.'' Seghers inter­ solid Argentine repression The U.S. Committee for Justice to Latin American Politi­ viewed LSU students who voted SWP. Most "said they 16 LA Socialists on ballot cal Prisoners (USLA) has announced plans for spring felt a vote for McGovern would not be a strong enough 17 Atlanta SWP launches activities ctcross the country. Highlighting the actions will protest vote against President Nixon," according to Se­ campaign be teach-ins and, on March 8, picket lines at Argentine ghers's Jan. 16 article. 18 Left Opposition: China consulates and tourist offices. 19 The Other Israel USLA's work on behalf of political prisoners is well 21 Indians, reporter ar­ known. Last fall it sponsored the tour of Daniel Zadunai­ sky, an activist in the Argentine movement to defend rested by FBI political prisoners. Zadunaisky spoke at 65 meetings in 24 Black victims of Detroit 15 cities, reaching thousands of people. police speak out His tour received 30 hours of radio time, some TV coverage, and coverage in major daily papers in Atlanta, 6 In Our Opinion Boston, Denver, New York, Portland, and St. Paul. Move­ Letters ment papers across the country also carried a number of 7 National Picket Line articles about his tour. Although Zadunaisky has left the U.S. to speak in La Raza en Accion Canada, the effect of his tour here is still being felt. The 8 Great Society Jan. 29 issue of The Great Speckled Bird, a movement Women in Revolt newspaper in Atlanta, published a two-page interview By Any Means Necessary with him on the political situation in Argentina. 20 In Review Also as a result of Zadunaisky's tour, petitions protesting 21 American Way of Life the violations of human rights in Argentina bearing hun­ dreds of names were sent to Argentine President Alejandro Lanusse. Signers included many academic figures, writer WORLD OUTLOOK Nat Hentoff, filmmaker Emile de Antonio, and 15 inmates 1 Australian workers boy­ of Attica prison. Militant/laura Miller Shown above is one reason why some people realized that cott embarrasses Nixon The March 8 picket lines will again protest the plight of a vote for McGovern wasn't a strong enough protest vote. 2 Irish Republicans discuss Argentine political prisoners, this time on the eve of the March 11 elections in that country. They will also demand More than 50,000 McGovern 'Truth Kits' were sold during the building revolutionary repeal of the repressive laws and the state of siege under SWP 1972 campaign. party which the Lanusse dictatorship rules Argentina and free­ 3 New threat to political dom for all political prisoners. March 8 marks the second PUERTO RICAN REPRESENTATIVES ASK PARDON prisoners in Argentina anniversary of the murder of three Argentine students by FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS: By a unanimous vote, 4 Armenian youth de­ political police. the Puerto Rican House of Representatives asked Pres­ nounce national op­ Those who would like to work on the spring activities ident Nixon Feb. 2 to pardon five political prisoners planned by USLA, or who would like further informa­ jailed 20 years ago "for acts whose only motivation pression in Turkey tion, should contact USLA at 150 Fifth Ave., Room 737, was to achieve independence for Puerto Rico." New York, N.Y. 10011. Telephone: (212) 691-2880. The resolution was presented by Carlos Gallisa, the vice-president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party and one of two PIP members recently elected as repre­ KOFSKY WINS A ROUND: Assistant professor of his­ sentatives. The resolution asked for immediate and un­ tory Frank Kofsky, who was denied tenure at California conditional liberty for Oscar Collazo, who took part in State University at Sacramento, has announced that the an unsuccessful attack on Harry Truman in 1950, and faculty committee on tenure reversed its decision. The for Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irving Flores, committee decided to allow Kofsky to continue teaching and Andres Figueroa Cordero, who participated in a until May 1974. Kofsky, author of Black Nationalism 1954 attack on the U. S. House of Representatives. All and the Revolution in Music (published by Pathfinder five were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Press), had been charged with being "unduly pr~-Black," THE MILITANT among other things. Kofsky replied to the charges by saying, "I notice that VOLUME 37/NUMBER 6 this university has never seen fit to deny tenure to a pro­ IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU'RE WILLING TO FEBRUARY 16, 1973 SELL: An increasing number of radical professors are CLOSING NEWS DATE-FEB. 7, 1973 fessor for being unduly pro-white." He said that the fac­ ulty committee's earlier denial of his request for tenure finding that the much-touted "marketplace of ideas" car­ Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS had backfired and focused attention on the lack of rapport ries a very limited inventory. The latest victim in the Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS continuing purge of those who don't toe the line is Mark Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING between white professors and Black students. Green, a professor of chemistry at the University of Mich­ Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass' n., igan at Ann Arbor. 14 Charles lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: Ed­ 'THE MILITANT' IN GERMANY: Inprekorr, the Ger­ Green was suspended Oct. 9 after showing his class itorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) man-language information bulletin of the Fourth Inter­ a film on the effects of napalm and other chemical weap­ 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: II 07 I /2 N. Western Ave., los Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone: (213) 463- national, published in Stuttgart by the German Trotsky­ ons the U. S. uses in SouthPast Asia. He was reinstated 1917. ist movement, reprints articles by Doug Jenness and Larry a week later after 500 students demonstrated in his sup­ Correspondence concerning subscriptions or changes Seigle in its Jan. 15 issue. Jenness's article, "Should so­ port. But on Jan. 11 Green was told that the quality of address should be addressed to The Militant Busi­ cialists demand Nixon 'sign the treaty'?" appeared in of his research and teaching had gone down, and that ness Office, 14 Charles lone, New York, N.Y. 10014. the Nov. 24 Militant. Seigle's article, a reply to Tom after the winter term of 1974 he will be out of a job. Second-doss postage paid at New York, N.Y.