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...certain losers who will be satisfied if their candidacies force some political conversions. One clergyman has already succeeded in doing just that. Congressman Thaddeus Dulski. a six-term Buffalo, N.Y.. Democrat, used to take a hard line on the Viet Nam War. But after the Rev. Hugh Carmichael, an antiwar Episcopal priest, entered the race, Dulski changed his position; he now advocates withdrawal of all U.S. troops by a specific deadline...
...Indian governments have resorted to a wide range of precautionary measures. The Jamaican government banned the works of Malcolm X. Bermuda canceled a schoolboy sports meet to avoid the danger of a racial incident, and Trinidad reportedly refused stopover privileges to one of her most illustrious native sons, Stokely Carmichael. This, as Carmichael modestly sees it, was the real reason for the uprising in Trinidad last week...
After his release, Sams drifted for a few years, then joined the Black Panther Party, serving for a while as bodyguard to Stokely Carmichael. The New York Times, March 22, 1970, contains this description of Sams...
...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler. . . . They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...
...expelled once from the Party for stabbing a fellow Panther. but Stokely Carmichael used his influence to get him readmitted. Carmichael says that he learned that Sams was a police agent early in May 1969, but was unable to communicate this information from Africa to the Panther leadership...