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...make the worker student alliance real to the anti-war movement, or a mass issue relevant to the lives of most Harvard students. But M. David Landan's vile article in the March 8 CRIMSON is worse than useless in understanding SDS or any of its strengths and weaknesses. Landau blames the Progressie Labor Party for the relative smallness of SDS, ignoring the disappearance of virtually every other group which considered itself on the left (e.g. Student Mobe...
...attempting to defend this absurd position, Landau is forced to a series of distortions and lies. Here are just a few of them...
...Landau implies that SDS is "racist" because it criticizes the Black Panthers. Again, there is no official SDS position on this matter, but many members of SDS feel that the Panthers have very serious political flaws that has greatly hindered the fight against racism. And Landau does not point out that these criticism are not those of bystanders, but of active participants in the struggle (e.g. Painters Helper campaign; support for Welfare Mothers struggling against the Flat Grant and price hikes in ghetto supermarkets when welfare checks come out; support for the Polaroid workers; fighting racist unemployment; support for Charlie...
Ansara and Landau were reluctant to give over the documents, believing that they would lose their right to plead the Fifth Amendment in subsequent questioning. A law made during the McCarthy era states that once a person answers the first question in a "line of questioning," he must continue to answer all following questions...
...subcommittee ruled that Ansara and Landau would retain their right to use the Fifth Amendment. They then surrendered the financial records-which are identical to those which the subcommittee subpoenaed last February...