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Speaking from exile in Algiers, Eldridge Cleaver last month denounced Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard as incompetent and reactionary and demanded the reinstatement of the ousted Panther...
Huey P. Newton immediately defended Hilliard and the expulsion of Cleaver's supporters in the New York chapter. Newton also promised that his Oakland National Headquarters would study and respond to Cleaver's attacks...
...Cleaver's man in New York, Zayd Malik Shakur, promptly charged that Newton and his associate David Hilliard were behind the murder. "We have documented evidence," he said, "that these two madmen gave the orders to have Brother Robert Webb killed." Police have their doubts, but they suspect that the intraparty dispute is the key to the killing. They think the killers came from a dissident Panther group in Queens that remains loyal to Newton at a time when many of the New York Panthers are part of the Cleaver following. They also believe that Webb's death...
...Month. The party split has ideological overtones: the Cleaver wing denounces the Newtonites as insufficiently revolutionary. Among other things, Newton has worked to disassociate the Panthers from Weatherman, a move the Cleaver faction views with dismay. But behind the argument is a personality clash and a power struggle between Newton and Cleaver. Newton has a middle-class background and a preference for working within the System; Cleaver came to the Panthers from years of brutalizing experience in prison. Newton's approach is much more theoretical and intellectual than Cleaver's petulant activism. It was after Newton...
...Michael Tabor and Richard Moore, jumped bail and disappeared. With them went Tabor's wife, Connie Matthews, who had been Newton's secretary. Newton reacted by reading them out of the party as "enemies of the people." Last week Tabor and his wife surfaced in Algeria with Cleaver, and the New York pro-Cleaver faction produced a video tape in which the Tabors joined Kathleen Cleaver in attacking Newton. Mrs. Cleaver also took the occasion to deny charges in a recent issue of the Black Panther that her husband was holding her prisoner after having murdered her lover...