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Speaking from exile in Algiers, Eldridge Cleaver last month denounced Black Panther Chief of Staff David Hilliard as incompetent and reactionary and demanded the reinstatement of the ousted Panther...
...This exchange, conducted on a live television talk show, proved to be the first battle of a war still raging within the Black Panther Party. The March 20 issue of the Party newspaper, which is controlled by Newton, announces the expulsion of Cleaver and all other exiled Panthers. The lines are being drawn, but many questions are unanswered...
...month ago, two of the Panthers on trial in New York, Michael Tabor and Richard Moore, jumped bail and disappeared. With them went Tabor's wife, Connie Matthews, who had been Newton's secretary. Newton reacted by reading them out of the party as "enemies of the people." Last week Tabor and his wife surfaced in Algeria with Cleaver, and the New York pro-Cleaver faction produced a video tape in which the Tabors joined Kathleen Cleaver in attacking Newton. Mrs. Cleaver also took the occasion to deny charges in a recent issue of the Black Panther that...
Week after week, the stalled courtroom clock in New Haven symbolized the jury selection in the kidnap-murder trial of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale and Mrs. Erika Huggins. In all, 1,550 persons were called and 1,035 prospective jurors actually questioned. Last week, after four months, the fatiguing process ended when two alternates (one black, one white) joined five blacks and seven whites in one of the most painfully culled panels in U.S. history...
...defendants are being tried on charges stemming from the slaying of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. Like many defense lawyers, Seale's attorney, Charles Garry, sees his client as a victim. He insists that a black militant cannot obtain a panel of impartial jurors from voter rolls, which are stocked largely with white, middle-class citizens. None of them, he claims, "could possibly judge an enemy of the Establishment...