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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lemmer told the jury that early in 1972, Camil said he was conducting training operations for political assassination squads on an isolated Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years as an FBI informer, testified that the plotting veterans had traded "dope for weapons." He related that once Defendant John W. Kniffen had demonstrated how to use a crossbow by firing a steel shaft through a door. He also claimed that Camil had asked him to "fill a contract," presumably for a gangland-style murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Gainesville Eight | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...generation, the Summer Jam tapped a widespread desire to return to the uninhibited atmosphere of the campus, to create a vast, congenial party atmosphere with none of the negative overtones of rock's erratic past. Most of the kids just wanted to lie back in the grass, smoke dope, drink wine and be free of worry about being busted-or about being harassed by any adult authority. Then, too, many of them were younger brothers and sisters of the Woodstock generation, eager to live up to the stories they have heard for years about that great communal event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Superpromoters | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Dixon says that his manager didn't care about his decline because he "just wanted a fighter to cover up his dope racket." The officials called Dixon's last fight a draw, but, he says, "the way I felt afterwards, I didn't really feel like going into the ring again." His boxing career ended, and with a one-string tin-can bass, he began his career as a performer. Later, a big-time gambler bought him his first upright bass, and he started performing at Martin...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

...lived during slavery might have had the blues over the slave master raping his wife. His song might have been, "Cap'n, Cap'n, you better leave my woman alone/ If you don't Death Valley's be gonna be your home." Dixon feels that wars, police brutality, riots, dope, and pollution are giving people the blues now. "A lot of people have the blues and they don't even know it," he says, "(because) everybody is dissatisfied with conditions one wav or another...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

...does the white man control black people in America? Dixon points to the word--DOPE...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

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