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Black Panther Robert Webb, 22, moved from San Francisco to New York about a year ago. In the growing Panther schism between supporters of Huey Newton, the party's Oakland-based minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, now exiled in Algiers, Webb sided with Cleaver. Last week Webb and two friends were walking along a Harlem street when they encountered several other blacks who were selling the party newspaper; since the publication is Newton-controlled, the Cleaver wing has proscribed it. Webb tried to stop the men from hawking it, but three of them drew guns and fired...
Cleaver's man in New York, Zayd Malik Shakur, promptly charged that Newton and his associate David Hilliard were behind the murder. "We have documented evidence," he said, "that these two madmen gave the orders to have Brother Robert Webb killed." Police have their doubts, but they suspect that the intraparty dispute is the key to the killing. They think the killers came from a dissident Panther group in Queens that remains loyal to Newton at a time when many of the New York Panthers are part of the Cleaver following. They also believe that Webb's death...
...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and his wife, Singer Miriam Makeba, for $48,193 in income taxes for 1968 and 1969. Reporter Tim Findley of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote up a visit he recently paid to the $700-a-month penthouse pad of Black Panther Supreme Commander Huey P. Newton. " 'I stay here because it's a security building,' Newton said, looking out at the panorama of Oakland visible through the apartment's floor-to-ceiling windows. 'I feel like I'm a prisoner.' " Appropriately enough, Newton's 25th-floor "prison...
...While Newton was in jail, Seale waged a national campaign to mobilize support for him, and he thus claims responsibility for the fact that Newton was not convicted of first-degree murder-the original charge against him in the 1968 slaying of a California policeman. Now when Newton is free and Seale is on trial, the latest news of Newton in the white press is that he is living in a $700 a month San Francisco apartment, in a "high-security" building...
Members of the Panther Defense Committee say that Garry has admitted that he has no hope of winning the case in the courtroom, and claims that the only solution is in the streets. As Newton was helped, so the story goes, so will Seale and Huggins be freed. Otherwise, the best hope is a compromise verdict like McLucas' as opposed to the electric chair...