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...buff-colored civic-center modern Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, where the trial of Angela Davis is being held, is protected by a couple of recently erected 12-ft. chain-link fences, with gates guarded by about a dozen armed deputies. At 6 each morning, quiet, well-behaved crowds of young blacks, Chicanos and whites begin gathering at the gates to vie for the 42 courtroom seats reserved for the public. Angela Davis, her sister Fania Jordan and the defendant's team of three lawyers arrive shortly before 9, from a secret place where Miss Davis has been staying...
...sits with an assistant. The rest of the limited space is filled by half a dozen deputies with walkie-talkies and a bailiff-all armed with revolvers. In the first rows sit 30 members of the press contingent, which includes correspondents from the Soviet Union and East Germany, where Angela Davis is considered a political prisoner...
...killed. About a year later, George Jackson, then 30, was fatally shot at San Quentin in what prison authorities called an escape attempt. Last week, ironically, Drumgo, 26, and Clutchette, 29, were acquitted of the Soledad guard's murder by an all-white jury in San Francisco. Now, Angela Davis, 28, the former U.C.L.A. philosophy instructor and proclaimed Communist, was on trial for murder, kidnaping and criminal conspiracy in supposedly helping Jonathan in the fatal attempt to free his brother. She did so, said Prosecutor Harris, because of her "passion for George Jackson that knew no bounds...
...East Germans decide to champion her cause? Although Angela Davis is a plausible enough successor to Che Guevara as an ideal Communist martyr, and undoubtedly evokes sympathy from many German leftists, the real explanation for the growth of her cult lies in the shifting pattern of East-West relations. Until recently the East German regime concentrated its propaganda attacks on West Germany, whose free society and economic prosperity have for years exerted an almost irresistible magnetism on Germany's poorer half. In the past year, however, as Moscow and Bonn have sought to establish better relations, East Germany...
East Germany's rulers then needed a new external issue with which to whip up enthusiasm and militancy among their people. Thus when Angela was arrested and arraigned, the East German propagandists once again cranked up their apparatus. U.S. "racism" is hardly as threatening to East Germany as the visions that the propagandists once conjured up of a neo-Nazi invasion from the West. But at least it keeps the indoctrinated minds of the East Germans occupied until a more pressing issue comes along...