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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Newton emerged from prison in 1970, he found the Panthers divided into rival factions. One reason was that the FBI had begun a campaign of dirty tricks-counterfeit Panther documents, fake denunciations of various Panthers as police informants-in an effort to disrupt what the agency's Washington intelligence chief called "the most violence prone of all the extremist groups...
...such community activities, the Panthers won $500,000 in government grants (and the attention of government auditors, who found a number of instances of sloppiness and mismanagement). Even in the midst of these good works, however, there were some violent incidents that seemed to lead back to the Panthers. The ugliest was the murder of Betty Van Patten, 45, the Panthers' earnest white bookkeeper, who in 1975 was found floating in San Francisco Bay with her head bashed in. There were rumors that she might have made enemies by questioning irregularities in party ledgers, but the case has never...
...weeks after this, a Panther named Nelson Lee Malloy was found, moaning, under a pile of stones in the Nevada desert. He had been shot and left for dead. As a result, Malloy is paralyzed for life from the neck down. He reluctantly told police that he had helped two Panthers escape after the attempted assassination of Gray, and that the Panthers had tried to silence...
What will life be like in 1978? It was a question that opened up tantalizing new worlds of speculation for Richard Auerbach's fifth-graders in Buffalo 25 years ago. Upon opening the envelope of predictions last week, Auerbach found that his pupils had envisioned some wild and fantastic advances. Like supersonic planes crossing the Atlantic in three hours, as Michael Lappin predicted. And as David Scatter speculated, "Men may even walk on the moon." Marion Speich fantasized that there would be pushbutton telephones. Ah, but those that dreamed more down-to-earth dreams, how little they knew. "There...
Last week, when McCarthy was brought to trial for his 16th rock attack on his favorite target, the revolving front doors of New York City's federal courthouse, he found that his pastime no longer comes cheap. Repairing the door now costs more than $100, which makes his action a felony under U.S. law. Said his lawyer: "Mr. McCarthy finds himself the victim of inflation, Your Honor." Said McCarthy: "I'll never drink again." Said the judge: "Three years...