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...young revolutionaries who have come to prominence have accumulated a clearer public record than Angela Davis. Yet when she was charged with murder, the record, as always, left the same tantalizing gap: Who, really, is the woman behind the known facts and the favored, middle-class girlhood...
Girl Scout. Angela Davis, 26, is black and, slogans aside, beautiful. She is an outstanding scholar and teacher as well. Outwardly, the circumstances of her early life seem almost contrivedly good: both her parents were schoolteachers in Birmingham, Ala., where she went through the tenth grade as a straight A student. Her father, B. Frank Davis, now a service-station operator, remembers her as a happy child. "Girl Scout outings were fun to her then," he said last week...
...Angela Davis had changed by the time she arrived in San Diego to study under Marcuse. She showed warmth and concern for her friends, but she became increasingly militant. She joined the Black Panthers, letting her attendance at meetings lapse only because she also became a Communist and spent much of her time with the party's all-black Che-Lumumba Club. She took part in the storming of a campus building in San Diego. She was arrested for refusing to leave a police station...
...armed invasion of a California courtroom, designed to force release of the Soledad Three, a way of "dealing with specific problems now"? Angela Davis carried the answer with her into hiding. Most of her friends presume her innocence, though they are troubled. But the circumstantial evidence kept accumulating last week. Police say she purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after...
...Christ, I can't imagine," says his friend, Producer Sid Krassman. But soon Sid has wrung three million out of the tourist-starved principality of Liechtenstein to help finance the monstrosity and assured the rest by signing up Angela Sterling, "the highest-paid darling of the silver screen - nailing a cool one and a quarter big ones per pic, plus ten percent of the boxoroonie, going...