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...embodies much of George Jackson's attitude towards his imminent death during the last 18 months of his life. During that period, Jackson was confined first in the maximum security block of Soledad and then, after obtaining a change of venue that transferred his trial from Monterey to Marin County, in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin. Held in close confinement in prison, chained when he was taken out to appear in court. Jackson became less of a prisoner during this time than he had ever been before...
...Jackson in fact a political prisoner? And what about Angela Davis, accused of supplying guns to Jackson's brother Jonathan in last year's shootout at the Marin County Courthouse? Radicals and quite a few liberals, regardless of race, would emphatically answer yes. More than that, many would contend that all black prisoners in American jails are political prisoners in the sense that a "racist," white-dominated political and economic system has condemned them, in their poverty and blackness, to lives of crime...
...mourn Jackson are oblivious to the fact that three guards and two other convicts died with him. It is equally disturbing that Angela Davis' defenders forget that, whatever her innocence or guilt in the episode, four people, including a judge, Jonathan Jackson and two convicts, died in the Marin County Courthouse gun battle. Surely white racists suspected of purchasing guns to use against blacks should be brought to trial. Why, then, should anyone accused of supplying weapons that were ultimately used for the murder at the courthouse not expect the same justice? Since Angela Davis was a fugitive...
...rare breed of American fauna: a small band of happy commuters. The reason is blue and white, cost $700,000 and floats. It is called the M.V. Golden Gate; and in the eleven months that it has been plying the waters of San Francisco Bay between Sausalito, in Marin County, and the city's Pier One, it has turned hundreds of auto-addicted commuters into confirmed ferry fans...
...larger (750 passengers) and more luxurious (two bars). Later this summer they will also begin trial runs with a giant 60-passenger air-cushion vehicle, which will skim across the Bay in just 15 minutes. But District General Manager Dale Luehring doubts that it will be universally accepted by Marin County commuters. "A lot of people don't want to get back and forth faster," he observes. "They say a half-hour is just enough time for two martinis...