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Judge M. Edward Viola of the Middle-sex District Court yesterday set December 18 as the trial date for seven members of the "Juche" commune arrested in a police raid Tuesday afternoon. Viola ruled that bail would remain at $2000 per person...
Police had booked seven of the residents at the 452 Franklin St. commune on charges of being knowingly in the presence of narcotics and illegal possession of firearms without having a registration or firearm identification card...
...interview yesterday afternoon, members of the commune charged that the police failed to show a search warrant, did not knock before entering, and later took personal effects from the house without giving the owners a receipt...
...Diet is very very central to the revolution," says Bill Wheeler, leader of a north California commune, referring primarily to a revolution in sensibility. But while the drugs, the clothes, the hair, the music and the language of the counterculture have become monotonously familiar, its diet has been relatively ignored. Counterculture food, while relatively bland, is nevertheless distinctive and pervasive. When Yale students played host to Black Panther supporters last spring, for example, they fed their thousands of visitors not hot dogs and Coke, but a special recipe of oats, dates, sunflower seeds, peanuts, prunes, raisins and cornflakes. Indeed...
...macrobiotics, calories don't count. Neither does scientific nutritional balance, a concept that in the Age of Aquarius seems to carry little weight. "The only nutritional rules we disregard are modern ones," airily explains Elaine Mensoff, 21, who cooks for a Boston macrobiotic commune. Instead, macrobiotics concerns itself with those ancient complementary and opposite forces yin and yang, into which everything in the world is divided, including food. Sugar and most fruits, for example, tend to be very yin, while meats and eggs tend to be very yang. The trick is to balance one's menus to maintain...