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Five policemen and a postal inspector yesterday raided the Boston office of the hippie newspaper Avatar. They arrested Avatar writer Edward Beardsley and seized all copies of the 11th, 12th, and 13th issues...
...patrolman said that the Cambridge police could not arrest Avatar distributors because an order to declare the 12th and 13th issues of the paper obscene is still pending in the Cambridge District Court...
Police arrested two persons yesterday for distributing the Avatar, Boston's hippie weekly, on charges of peddling without a license, and distributing obscene literature...
...bizarre point of view and his kind of prior censorship of publications is not only thoroughly repellent to the whole concept of freedom of expression, but it has been explicitly declared unconstitutional. The problem is, however, that in order to vindicate these rights, the staff and friends of the Avatar must "put their heads on the guillotine," to use the City Manager's phrase. With meager financial resources, and in the face of this constant, insistent harrassment, the Avatar may have to close up shop in frustration and disgust. Long, expensive legal battles are a drag--and in this case...
...blame for this unhappy situation lies with misguided public officials. If some kind of pressure cannot be brought to bear on the City Manager and the other officials who are responsible for the problem, the Avatar may soon be extinct. M. Pope Barrow...