Word: berkeley
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Lonnie McLucas was not in New Haven at the time the other New Haven Panthers were arrested. He returned, learned of the arrests, stayed for a short while to try and help gather bail money, and then began driving to Panther national headquarters in Berkeley, California. He said he was planning to make a report and then turn himself in. It seems probable he was also trying to reach national head-quarters in a desperate search for clarification as to George Sams' status in the Party and his reasons for ordering Rackley's murder...
...brother is now a freshman at Berkeley. In his last year in high school, he invested the $500 he had inherited from my grandmother and made a couple thousand dollars in the stock market...
...most thoroughly adapted to the purposes of those who control policy. The Ford Foundation, for example, is the main source of support for 56 per cent of the approximately 200 university foreign affairs centers in the U. S. It has been a major source for centers at Columbia. Chicago, Berkeley, UCLA, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana, MIT, Michigan State, Stanford, and Wisconsin...
Much of the radical press in the U.S. refrained from commenting on last week's hijackings, and a few underground papers condemned them as "nationalistic" and "racist." But the Berkeley Tribe editorialized: "We are all the new barbarians. We are closer to the Palestinians than some like to admit. We are the people without power in the world. Maybe soon, planes carrying very prominent international pigs like [Reagan] will be hijacked from the U.S. to parts unknown. By, say, freaks...
Contagious Example. Edward Kiernan, president of New York's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, finds the attacks "part of a cold, logical, hard-eyed revolutionary strategy." Berkeley's Chief Bruce Baker thinks that a militant sees headlines about ambushes of police and concludes: "I'd better get in on this." Between the two views-the conspiracy theory and the suggestion that attacks on cops are only isolated and unrelated-Dr. John Spiegel, director of Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, sees something in the middle. He believes that an incident...