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...Police arrested 169 anti-war demonstrators at three Newton draft boards yesterday, charging them with disorderly conduct...
Most of those arrested pleaded not guilty and were released on personal recognizance by Judge Francis J. Larkin for trial on May 29. The mass arrest was the largest in Newton's history...
Seale, who freely admits that he is no ideologue, emerges as a contented executive officer for Newton-listening to his orders, and then acting as Party Chairman to make sure no small flaw undoes the grand design...
...this area-organizing the Panther recruits and educating them to execute Newton's program-that Bobby Scale is at his best. Newton laid down the strategy, and Seale at once grasped the tactical details necessary to keep it going. Probably the most interesting parts of the book deal with Seale's struggle to transform the hustlers who joined the Panthers for their snappy uniforms and reputation into a disciplined force. His successes and failures (and his total honesty about both) give the reader much more of a sense of what it means to be a Panther than the ideological explanations...
...Massachusetts Democratic state legislator who sponsored the bill under which state residents may refuse to fight abroad in undeclared wars, thereby setting up a possible constitutional test of the Viet Nam War; of a single gunshot wound in the head by his own hand (.38 cal. revolver); in Newton, Mass...