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...unfortunate. The irascible Hoffman, who presided at the celebrated Chicago Seven trial, has little love for militants. His heavy-handed conduct on the bench and repeated rulings in favor of the prosecution helped the Chicago defendants to assume a martyrs' mantle that they did not deserve. His obvious contempt for the defense also gave ammunition to those who question the administration of American justice. On hearing of Hoffman's selection for the second trial, Jay Miller, executive director of the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said: "It's an absolute disaster. These kids have...
...strikers with an offer of amnesty; other postal officials undermined unionists' confidence with overoptimistic reports of the troops' effectiveness in handling the mail. The federal court joined the siege. U.S. District Judge Frederick Bryan found Gustave Johnson, president of New York's Branch 36, N.A.L.C., in contempt of an earlier court order forbidding the strike, and gave him until 5 p.m. Wednesday to get his men back to work or face fines that could bankrupt both him and the union. The judge set Johnson's fine at $500 a day, the union...
BOBBY SEALE, 33, a founder and chairman of the Black Panther party and one of the original defendants in the Chicago conspiracy trial until separated for disrupting the courtroom. Judge Julius Hoffman declared a mistrial in Scale's case and sentenced him to four years for contempt. He was recently extradited from California to Connecticut, where he faces charges for the kidnaping and murder of another Panther. The most radical of the three, he seeks an interracial revolution that would create a Marxist-styled socialistic form of government in the U.S. He is convinced that blacks can never achieve...
...Contempt and Loathing. White Americans today are no less ambivalent. No matter how firmly they protest that they "have nothing against the black." contempt and loathing have become embedded in the language. Black Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint points out: "In the legacy of our civilization, the color black has been virtually synonymous with 'sin' and 'bad'-witness such terms as black sheep, black magic, blacklist, blackguard, blackball, black lie and many others. The word is associated with all the dirty, lowly, unintellectual functions in human life. The word white is usually invested with the opposite meanings...
...kind of apologetic for his presence. "I didn't realize I was important until they made me shut up," he explained. But Tommy also sounded mighty wistful for larger audiences than the Westinghouse assemblage of 30. Immediately after his speech, in which he discussed youth's contempt for present-day TV, he drove back to Manhattan to pursue more personal programming talks with ABC. By the end of the week, attorneys for the network and Smothers Inc. had virtually assured the return of the broth ers to a weekly network series after a year's banishment...