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...After attempting to make heroes of such American complainers as Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez, Daniel Ellsberg and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, the Eastern news establishment now seeks to deify Alexander Solzhenitsyn, formerly a complainer in the Soviet Union...
...version of Medicare) cards, parole or probation papers and jailor bail-release slips. The food was to be distributed through supermarkets for three days during each of the next four weeks, and the S.L.A. suggested that the program be supervised by several groups, including the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers, the American Indian Movement (AIM), the National Welfare Rights Organization and the Black Teachers Caucus...
...reason for the S.L.A.'s backdown on the food issue, however tentative, may well have been the scorn heaped on the original demand by a vast majority of those designated as beneficiaries. Many welfare recipients said that they would refuse to take any food paid for with "blood money." Chavez sent a message to the Hearsts that "my prayers are with you." Leftists from Black Panther Leader Huey Newton to Actress Jane Fonda condemned the S.L.A.'s use of violence as damaging to the radical cause. Some too conveniently forgot the New Left's more-than-occasional condoning of violence...
...saga" of the Lewis family. It starts with a Yankee ancestor's jumping ship at Monterey to start a dynasty in the 1830s and ends in the 1960s with the business-and land-rich heirs grimacing over the pot parties of their young and wondering what catastrophes Cesar Chavez and his troublemakers are going to visit on the California dream...
...women), Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (he changed his mind about women), Crusader Ralph Nader (he is interested in issues regardless of their progenitors' gender), Congresswoman Bella's husband Martin Abzug (he is supportive), Athlete Rafer Johnson (he is gentle). There were also the farm workers' Cesar Chavez (for his belief in nonviolence), Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (he said if there is hope for peace, it lies in depolarizing sex roles), Franklin Thomas (president of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant restoration project), U.S. Congressman Ron Dellums (he appeals to a coalition of havenots) and Black Panther Bobby...