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Father Albert McKnight, a black priest from Louisiana and founder of a large and growing federation of poor people's cooperatives in the South, yesterday briefed a group of 20 students at the Business School on the cooperative movement's potential...
...thinking is geared to developing enterprises that can not only support themselves, but support the whole black movement when outside financial support is withdrawn," McKnight said. "If the people are together, they can take over the political controls in some of the Deep South states...
...cooperatives McKnight referred to range from credit unions and handicraft shops to buyers' groups and sweet potato farms. Located in almost half of the southern states, they comprise a three year old, 116-member Federation of Southern Cooperatives, he said. Once-solid resistance from Southern whites has subsided partly, and, McKnight said, the cooperatives have now grown to a point where they are collectively worth over half a million dollars and claim over 3000 members...
...first 12 months of the six-year, $50 million drive, the fund has raised $1 million. McKnight said he will try to meet Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennet, overseer of Harvard's $1 billion endowment, next week to sound out Harvard's interest in purchasing shares of the SCDP...
...Colonel Nels A. Parson Jr., Americal chief of staff; Lieut. Colonels David C. Gavin and William D. Guinn, American advisers serving with the South Vietnamese; Major Charles C. Calhoun, executive and operations officer of the task force that had responsibility for the sweep through My Lai; Major Robert W. McKnight, operations officer at the brigade level; Major Frederic W. Watke, commander of a helicopter company; Captain Kenneth W. Boatman, an artillery forward observer, and Captain Dennis H. Johnson, assigned to an intelligence detachment. Some have been charged with lying to the Peers panel; all are accused, one way or another...