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...August 1971 Stephen Bingham, a Yale-educated attorney with left-wing sympathies, paid a visit to San Quentin Prison Inmate George Jackson, a Black Panther leader and author. After the meeting, Jackson pulled out a 9-mm pistol, sparking a melee that left six dead, himself included. Police postulated that Bingham had smuggled the gun and two ammo clips to his client. Bingham, who was then 29, went into hiding; after 13 years, he returned to California in 1984 to face conspiracy and murder charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: After 15 Years, Not Guilty | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Playing Hookey | 6/22/1986 | See Source »

...babies would be exhausted by the crowd of 13 candidates running in California's June 3 Republican primary for the Senate seat now held by Democrat Alan Cranston, 71. The candidates are wildly diverse, ranging from Zschau, a millionaire Silicon Valley Congressman, to Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader; from right-wing TV Commentator Bruce Herschensohn to Supply-Side Economist Arthur Laffer to indicted-then-unindicted Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Crazy Primary | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...most unlikely Republican candidate is Cleaver, 50, the former Black Panther leader whose campaign office is decorated with his convict photo and old Panther posters. His hair is graying, and he now wears fraying business suits in place of the outrageous codpiece he sported in the '70s. But Cleaver proved that he remains a powerful orator, telling delegates to the California Republican Convention that he is "a man with the courage to change, to grow" and one who now is determined to defeat the Democrats, "who have made black people dependent on the federal budget." He drew the most enthusiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Crazy Primary | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress up as Darth Vader. At Evergreen, in addition to making appearances as the Pink Panther and the Easter Bunny, Olander has chopped some administrative positions and taken hold of a budget that, while hardly lavish ($7 million), amounts to a vote of confidence from once skeptical lawmakers. The faculty stands behind him and supports the no-tenure system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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