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When the Black Panthers sought a lawyer to defend Huey Newton on a murder charge a few years ago, so a popular story goes, they tested the attitude of Charles Garry in a long interview. "Are you as good as Perry Mason?" one of them growled at the white San Francisco attorney. "I'm better," Garry replied. "Both of us get our clients off, but Mason's are innocent...
...years ago, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer. In so many words, Garry says, "I told them to kiss my ass." Garry believes in socialism, and that belief is one of his closest links to the Panthers, who share his economic views. He also believes in Huey Newton, whom he first met after the Panther was charged with murder in 1967. Garry recalls that Newton had a bullet wound in the stomach and was being fed through a tube in his nose. "With all of that," says Garry, "here was a man who was not afraid. This...
Married. Russell B. Long, 51, Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 1948, son of Huey ("Kingfish") Long; and Carolyn Bason, fortyish, a Capitol Hill secretary; he for the second time (his wife of 30 years divorced him last June); in a quiet Presbyterian ceremony in McLean...
...clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory. Frantz Fanon is ingeniously convincing on the subtle significance of the Algerian woman's veil, first in the tyranny, finally in the overthrow of French colonial control. In an interview, Black Panther Leader Huey Newton is equally to the point, perhaps never more so than when fingering the dilettantism of young white radicals: "I call their rejection of the System somewhat of an abstract thing. They're looking for new heroes...
...Panthers conclude that the police are an occupying army. As the staff study puts it, for the Panthers "violence against the police and other agents of symbols of authority is not crime but heroism, not merely an unlawful act but a revolutionary gesture against an illegitimate government." When Huey Newton and Bobby Scale started the Black Panther Party in Oakland in October 1966, their founding statement ended with the opening section of the Declaration of Independence...