Word: mau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five other people were treated Monday night at Cambridge City Hospital for stab wounds after fighting broke out at PBH between members of the National Caucus of Labor Committee (NCLC) and a group of people identified by Cambridge Police as members of De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans group...
...speech by a National Caucus of Labor Committee (NCLC) leader was interrupted by Vietnam veteran De Mau Mau members at around 9:40 p.m., according to Dean Epps. All of those injured, none of them Harvard students or employees, were rushed to Cambridge City Hospital...
Members of the NCLC defended their searches as "national policy" and cited the alleged "violent disruption" of a meeting in Boston by De Mau Mau four weeks ago. They also said that none of their guards was armed...
...your article on De Mau Mau [Oct. 30]: of course their reasons are not a rationale for murder. However, it makes a hell of a lot more sense for a black in that position to murder a wealthy white than it does for him to murder a Viet Cong or North Vietnamese soldier...
Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod described De Mau Mau as a group of disgruntled Viet Nam veterans. Racial hatred, he said, "could have been one of the primary motives" for the slayings. "I can see no other apparent motivation." Chicago newspapers were quick to play up the case. Chicago Today, for instance, ran headlines declaring MURDER GANG 3,000 STRONG and DE MAU MAU TAKING OVER FOR THE PANTHERS. Sources close to the black-militant movement, however, called such charges preposterous, saying that De Mau Mau was a loosely organized group with less than 50 members...