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...line of massed police and Guardsmen. They began throwing bottles and rocks, caught tear gas in return and dispersed after about an hour of confrontation. Seventeen demonstrators were arrested by the police, who never once charged into the crowd or swung clubs. Yale students wearing yellow headbands and some Panther marshals kept urging the rock throwers to move off the Green and back onto the campus. "There's nothing you can do here but hurt my people!" shouted one young black. Two bombs later exploded simultaneously in Yale's Ingalls Hockey Rink, shattering windows and doors. There were...
WHATEVER other grievances they may have, the Black Panthers can hardly claim to have been ignored since their party was founded in 1966. Perhaps never have so few would-be revolutionaries made such an impact on so many in so short a time. The Justice Department estimates that there are barely 1,000 Panthers in the entire U.S. Yet an appeal by Panther leaders to protesters to come to the aid of Panther Chairman Bobby Seale created a potential confrontation in New Haven...
...Though Panther marshals played an important role in keeping the peace in New Haven, officials had reason to worry. The Justice Department had reports that shotguns and rifles purchased by Panthers were transported to New Haven. Panthers and members of the ultramilitant white Weathermen brought dynamite into the city, according to police intelligence, and the Panther command ordered each of its chapters to send their most skillful dynamiters, planning to place them under the command of Robert Webb and John Turner, both known as "demolition experts...
Storming Montville. There is heated dispute among Panther defenders and their horrified critics about the extent to which the Panthers are rightfully prosecuted or unfairly persecuted by police, and, in turn, about whether they are purposeful terrorists or mostly big talkers. There does not seem to be enough evidence so far to convince anyone except their partisans or their enemies, although the case against them is bolstered by figures. In the past three years police claim that 409 Panthers have been convicted of one crime or another; 310 others are awaiting trial. Police say the Panthers have shot to death...
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...