JUNE 17, 1977 35 CENTS VOLUME 41/NUMBER 23 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Ricans killed in Ilea riot ~·. ·; ICAGO-Cops gang up on youth during assault on Puerto Rican day celebration June 4. By Catarino Garza Saturday was a warm summer day here. People · streets of Division and California was larger than and Peter Archer from the Puerto Rican community on this city's the police had bargained for. When the cops CHICAGO-Two young Puerto Ricans were killed west side had gathered in Humboldt Park in a attacked the crowd, they were met with a hail of and dozens of others wounded and beaten during a festive mood to celebrate this yearly Puerto Rican bottles and rocks. police attack on a Puerto Rican Day celebration holiday. Families brought picnic lunches and The police called for reinforcements., but one here Saturday, June 4. barbecue pits. eyewitness told us that before they arrived, the Killed during the cop riot were twenty-six-year-old A Puerto Rican Day parade came down Division crowd had twice chased the police from the area. Street to the corner of California at one corner of Joined by reinforcements, the police began to Catarina Garza is the Socialist Workers party the park. Many marchers joined the picnickers and clear the park. candidate for mayor of New York. Peter Archer sat down to rest in the sun. is a member of the editorial staff of the Militant. Chicago police had stationed themselves in "The police attacked everyone," Victor Maldona­ corners of the park, and community residents said do told us. Maldonado works at a grocery store near Julio Osorio and twenty-five-year-old Rafael Cruz. the cops were obviously itching for an excuse to the park. Both were shot in the back, according to an attack the gathering. They found one in a scuffle Lee Rios added, "The police hassled everyone autopsy. that broke out between members of two rival gangs, from the park. Then the bottles started being Eyewitnesses who we interviewed in the Hum­ the Spanish Cobras and Latin Kings. thrown. boldt Park area where the events occurred said that "People stuck together," Rios said. "The police cops initially fired their guns into the air, but that The cops moved in on the situation, treating those were wrong." at least on one occasion they shot directly into the they arrested brutally, throwing them up against Another eyewitness told us, "The police were hard crowd. Chicago Sun-Times reporter Robert Suro patrol cars. When bystanders protested, the cops up, began shooting into the air, but then they did says that he saw one policeman fire four or five turned on them. other things. They threw stones at the people, and times directly into the crowd. The crowd that began to gather around the cross Continued on page 3 . Miami VIde: llfllllill• hiiiJian rights -PAGES 2, 10, 24 In Briel THIS HOUSTON KILLER-COPS DROP APPEAL: On June GET APARTHEID OFF CAMPUS!: A wave of protests WEEK'S 2, five Houston cops who were fired from the police force agAinst University of California (UC) investments in U.S. after murdering Joe Campos Torres dropped a Civil Service corporations doing business in South Africa is continuing. MILITANT Commission appeal of their dismissals. (A sixth cop On June 3, 800 students at UC Berkeley attended a rally involved has been suspended with pay.) and teach-in against the investments, and 200 students 3 Two youths killed Public protests forced Houston Police Chief B.G. "Pappy" demonstrated at UC Santa Cruz. Two days earlier, at a in Chicago police riot Bond to fire the five soon after they arrested, beat, and meeting of Campuses United Against Apartheid (CUAA), students from around the state reported on actions at their 4 NOW calls meeting threw Torres into the Buffalo Bayou on May 6. Torres's campuses and discussed future plans. of minority women body was found three days later. ' Meanwhile, the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Associa­ The UC Board of Regents has responded to the protests 6 Student protests de­ tion is offering to field free of charge a team of special by writing letters to thirty-seven corporations questioning mand rights in Brazil prosecutors to press charges against the killer-cops before a their business and employment policies in South Africa. grand jury. Association President Dick DeGuerin said the Considering this response inadequate, the CUAA has called 7 Drive marks gains offer was made because District Attorney Carol Vance "has a June 20 meeting to discuss plans for a statewide in sales done absolutely nothing [in the case] since Torres was conference when school reopens next fall. 8 Calif. teachers re­ murdered." CIA TUTORS STIR CONTROVERSY IN D.C.: Two­ buff Shanker policies Vance claims he is holding up action against the one cop thirds of the teachers in Washington, D.C's Ballou High who could actually be charged with homocide under Texas 9 A proposal for labor School have signed a petition demanding an end to a statutes because he would rather see all six prosecuted by special tutorial program conducted in the school by the CIA. political action the U.S. Justiee Department for federal civil rights law The petition charged that "the mere presence of the CIA in 14 Steelworker on plight violations. The Justice Department says it is still deciding an educational institution is unsettling, divisive, and of small locals what action to take in the case. interferes with the process of education." Marilyn Lerch, one of the Ballou teachers, told the 16 No more Militant that although the CIA tutors are apparently out of deportations! Miami gay rights defeat the school building now "the principal said he'.d probably 19 Miners on strike Human rights suffered a major blow June 7 when a invite the CIA back next year." for their lives Miami law protecting homosexuals from discrimination in When some of the teachers at Ballou organized a protest housing, jobs, and public accommodations was repealed in a news conference outside the school, the administration tried 20 Women's radicalization!. referendum vote. to intimidate them. Administrators ordered the teachers dilemma for rulers Right-wing forces won by a two-to-one margin. Votes back into the building and cited several of them for counted from 439 of Miami's 446 precincts showed 200,058 "insubordination.'' 21 Origin of U.S. · votes for repeal of the antidiscrimination law and 87,871 for intervention in Panama retention. MOVE AGAINST MARXIST PROF. IN AKRON: 22 NY state workers Repeal of the gay rights law was put on th~ ballot by Officials of the University of Akron in Ohio are trying to get sparse contract singer Anita Bryant and hei' "Save Our Children" group. fire Dr. Leslie Carr, a Marxist sociologist. Students who Bryant said that homosexuality is a religious abomination. believe Carr is being persecuted for his political views have 23 CBTU leaders duck She claimed the antidiscrimination law was an invitation organized the Student Committee for Academic Freedom. Dem's strikebreaking for homosexuals to "recruit" and molest children. The Black United Students, Organization of Arab Students, 24 Bigots back Miami cue, both the graduate and undergraduate student governments, attack gay rights AGEE FORCED FROM BRITAIN: The British govern­ campus chapter of the National Organization for Women, ment finally overcame legal efforts by Philip Agee to avoid and the student newspaper have all backed Carr. 26 Zionist bulldozer being deported from Britain as a "security risk." Agee was Carr's defenders say the university's official grounds for in Jerusalem forced to leave for the Netherlands on June 3. He told dismissal-that the Marxist's "publication record is reporters he hoped to return to Britain. "Expulsion orders do inadequate"-are a cover-up. Carr has published more 2 In Brief not last for a person's whole life," he said. "Times change, articles than the average professor who has taught the governments change, and ministers change." same length of time. 10 In Our Opinion Agee, a former U.S. Central Intelligence Agency officer, Carr, who has exhausted almost all university grievance Letters began living in Britain after his book, Inside the Company: procedures, plans to take his case to court next fall. 11 National Picket Line CIA Diary, invoked agency displeasure for its damaging The ACLU will enter his case as a friend of the court. By Any Means Necessary revelations of illegal and immoral activities by the CIA. -Peter Seidman 12 The Great Society NEW CALIF. STERILIZATION RULES: Faced with American Way of Life mounting protests against forced sterilization of Chicanas, ;La Raza en Acci6n! Blacks, and others, the California Department of Health announced new sterilization rules May 24. The rules apply 15 Steel Notes to all licensed hospitals in the state, but not to sterilizations SUBSCRIBE NOW! 29 In Review performed in a doctor's. office. A spokesperson for the Health Department said the new regulations require that a patient be fully informed of the 10 WEEKS FOR S1 effect of sterilization and that the patient's decision must be made without duress. A "sterilization consent document" must be signed. Or subscribe for 6months There will be a fourteen~day waiting period for elective or 1year and get this THE MILITANT · sterilization. Patients may request that the operation be VOLUME 41/NUMBER 23 . performed earlier, but not less than seventy-two hours after JUNE 17, 1977 applying. A translator must be provided if the patient is not FREE BOOK! CLOSING NEWS DATE-JUNE 8 fluent in English.