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Says Kirk Varnedoe, a Stanford graduate student who helped organize the exhibit: "The most creative, talented, sensitive people were not throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails but using their own peaceful talents to protest...
...violence usually die by violence; but apparently the students nowadays are not taught that, or anything else. What do the students think the National Guard is called out for? To their way of thinking, if they think at all, it is all right for them to riot, throw stones, Molotov cocktails, and destroy what others have built; but it is not all right for police or soldiers to defend themselves...
...sects that marching slogans had to be approved before the procession started out. All of them were about as inoffensive as LONG LIVE MOTHER INDIA. Midway through the parade, however, a few marchers began to shout scurrilous slogans calling Moslems thieves. Soon stones, acid-filled light bulbs and Molotov cocktails began flying, though nobody is certain who started the barrage. A force of 600 policemen firing tear gas and then bullets were unable to keep the fighting from spreading...
Died. Paulina Z. Zhemchozina, 76, wife of former Premier and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov; of cancer; in Moscow. As ardent a Communist as her husband, she climbed the Soviet bureaucracy, first as director of a perfume factory, later as head of the cosmetics trust. In 1939, she became one of the first women to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister of Fisheries. She fell into disfavor with Stalin, lost her job and was exiled for a time-even though her husband remained one of the dictator's most important henchmen...
Taken at their word, the Panthers are the most devastating witnesses against themselves. An April issue of the Panther newspaper contained diagrammed "recipes" for Molotov cocktails and "people's hand grenades" -aerosol cans filled with explosives. The paper declared: "All self-defense groups must strike blows against the slavemaster until we have secured our survival as a people, and if this takes shooting every pig and blowing up every pigsty, then let's get on with it." Panther Leader David Hilliard warned: "If anything happens to Bobby Seale, there will not be any lights for days in this...