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They wreck hydrants by hacksawing the control stem or stuffing the shaft with beer cans. They fling bricks at passing fire trucks and often hit the fire men. "Burn, baby, burn!" they chant as their neighbors' homes incinerate, and often as not investigation shows that the fires Smith fights were set by rejected lovers or crafty landlords or teen-age torch parties...
...founder of the then fledgling, largely unknown Black Panther Party. In the intervening years, Newton was convicted, spent 33 months in prison, had his conviction overturned on appeal, and had hung juries force two mistrials. With the last mistrial, Alameda County authorities dropped all charges against Newton. The radical chant "Free Huey!" has at last passed into history...
Before the chant died, however, Newton and the Black Panthers had become an almost mythic element in the conflict that separates black American from white, the dissenters from the accepting. For a time, depending upon the point of view, Newton was either a radical martyr or a symbol of the winds of destruction. In the end, he was both and he was neither; symbolism overtook reality. In the passions on both sides, there were but few who remembered the death of one man, or the four years of anguish and uncertainty suffered by another man charged with that death...
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win. chant at 1969 SDS national convention...
When Roy Jenkins, the urbane and gifted deputy leader of the Labor Party, broke ranks to vote in favor of Britain's entry into the Common Market three weeks ago. a chant of "Traitor! Traitor!" rose from the backbenches. Jenkins, 51, knew that he was risking his political future by defying Labor's antiMarket line (as did 68 other members of the party), but he defended his stand on the grounds of "honesty and consistency." He was Chancellor of the Exchequer when Harold Wilson's Labor government attempted to join the Market in 1969, and even though...