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...could hardly have chosen a more propitious target strategically. In six months of public notoriety, the SLA had won conspicuously few friends. Its first admitted act of political violence was the November 1973 slaying of Marcus A. Foster, Oakland's popular superintendent of schools and the only black in California to head a major public school system. Foster was killed for allegedly advocating a student identification program in Oakland high schools which the SLA, in a letter issued after Foster's death, likened to the photo I.D. system used in South Africa. In fact, Foster was opposed to the system...
...Oakland A's Reggie Jackson, 28, was hitting well over .400 six weeks into the baseball season. In fact, he was aiming at a year's average of .400-last achieved in 1941 by Ted Williams. But last week Jackson, the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1973, limped to the dugout at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with a painful nerve in his right leg. Saying "My leg may hurt, | but I can still swing the wood," Jacks son, one of the most feared hitters in I the game, saw his average sink...
Exactly four years after 15,000 demonstrators massed in New Haven to protest his trial for the murder of Alex Rackley, Seale--more recently a Democratic candidate for mayor of Oakland, Calif.--spoke to about 700 subdued but friendly students at Tufts...
...Some stupid ignorant police is gonna start in some shooting before he does some explaining," Seale predicted of Oakland, "and then we gonna start shooting back. Only this time I want you to know what the shootings are about...
Seale cited Oakland Panthers' providing free food, free health clinics, and escort services for old people as programs that helped account for his 40,000 votes in the Oakland election. He predicted Pantherbacked candidates would win an election next year, with the help of better precinct organization...