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...many topics that must be sorted out if acid crimes are to be understood and prevented in the future. She tells, in a pathetically disjointed monologue, about her unhappy childhood (broken, alcoholic home): her extensive and sad sex life; her LSD experiences; her initiation into the Manson commune; her participation in the killing of actress Sharon Tate and her four house guests, and, a week later, in the "Copy Cat Murders" of a wealthy grocer and his wife...
...account is particularly important for its detailing of the personality of Charles Manson, the alienated ex-con who held apparently total psychic control over the female commune members. She explains how Manson first won her over (by his rendition of the song, "The Shadow of Your Smile"), how Manson saw homicide as a means of instilling "fear in Man himself, Man, the Establishment," how Manson set himself up as a combination of God and Satan, how Manson sought to set off a black versus white blood-bath, how Manson established male chauvinism as one of the commune's fundamental principles...
...approximately 200 inhabitants of the commune, which they called "Woodstock Nation West," had evacuated before the troops arrived...
Lawrence Hall, built in 1848, was scheduled for demolition this spring to make room for a new science center. It had been virtually unoccupied during the Spring semester until April 12, when it became the home of the Free University. About 30 persons- forming the Lawrence Hall Commune- beganliving...
Members of the commune said yesterday that they have been offered shelter in apartments around Cambridge, Students aiding the commune have set up an office at Adams House to receive and coordinate offers of food and shelter...