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...promised to be one of the most celebrated trials of the decade. In New Haven, Conn., Bobby G. Scale, national chairman of the Black Panther Party, stood charged by the state with ordering the murder of Fellow Panther Alex Rackley. A rally last year in support of Scale and his codefendant, Mrs. Ericka Huggins, attracted 15,000 demonstrators and a host of National Guardsmen to the New Haven Green, and "Free Ericka, Free Bobby" became a protest watchword, aerosoled onto sidewalks and building fronts across the country. The jury selection required a laborious four months; more than 1,500 individuals...
Defense Attorney Charles Garry labeled the entire trial an exercise in "preventive detention." The arrests of Seale, Panther Defense Minister Huey Newton and others around the country, he maintained, "have been nothing less than a concentrated effort by the FBI, CIA and local officials to systematically do away with the Black Panther Party...
...When I got to Paris, I discovered all the people with money were in Cannes, so here I am," said Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver's wife Kathleen, when she turned up at the Cannes Film Festival with a bodyguard of women in Afros and men in cowboy clothes. "The pigs do not know I am here," she told a press conference held in a bar, adding that she had emerged from the Cleavers' sanctuary in Algeria "to raise money for the establishment of a Revolutionary Peoples Communication Network" designed to "lead to the overthrow of white capitalism...
...called by a panther, Don't anther...
...Huggins-widow of a slain California Panther leader - stepped out of the courtroom, tears streamed down her cheeks, Panther sympathizers ran through the three-story building, crying, laughing and yelling...