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...This is the first of two feature articles on last week's Mayday actions in Washington. A second analysis will appear in tomorrow's CRIMSON...
...their public life, the Stones have never projected any ideology beyond jaded anarchism. They never make statements of commitment, as Aretha Franklin did when she pledged to supply Angela Davis' bail. They never even play political benefits. (The Beach Boys, believe it or not, showed up at the Mayday rally in Washington. The Stones didn't.) On the rare occasions when Mick Jagger does play Revolutionary, it is just another pose he has assumed in order to sell records...
...peace wars and one of the Chicago Seven, met with some resistance as he gathered his cadres. He wanted to carry out a nonviolent demonstration, and many hard-core radicals considered nonviolence a romantic relic of the past. Others were reluctant to participate because, as one organizer put it, "Mayday looked like an engraved invitation to a conspiracy trial." Still, Davis gathered an impressive file of 3-in.-by-5-in. cards listing potential organizers; by November he had established a nuclear staff of four or five that was to expand and become known as the Mayday Collective. They...
...psychological lift, student leaders traveled to Saigon and Hanoi to hammer out joint peace proposals with local student groups. Davis visited the Hanoi delegation in Paris again; when he returned, a conference of some 2,000 students was held in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the scenario for Mayday was approved...
...that any violence, even trashing, would earn them the dread label of "pig provocateur." The theme was driven home with a 135-page, multicolored manual, one of the most thorough guerrilla guide books in the U.S. today. Still another manual gave regional leaders a step-by-step guide to Mayday tactics. Instructions on how to choke some 21 key sites read: "The regional groups will be broken into units of 10-25 people. The units will move in waves, one unit in each wave, onto the road. They will sit down in a circle, and pass the pipe and play...