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...should buy this book-from a Panther, if possible. It may be the easiest thing they ever ask you to do. And buy it soon. There may not be much time left...
Before the Black Panther rally at New Haven two weeks ago, the Army's domestic intelligence network, which monitors the protest movement, concluded that no federal troops would be needed at the demonstration. Richard Kleindienst, Deputy Attorney General, ignored the decision and ordered up 4,000 of them. A recommendation from the same intelligence unit saying that federal forces would not be required in Washington last Saturday was simply dropped from the Pentagon briefing prepared for White House officials...
Ever since 14 plainclothesmen shot their way into a Chicago Black Panther apartment last December and killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, there have been serious doubts about the authorities' contention that the Panthers opened fire first and put up major resistance. Reporters found evidence that the gun battle was largely one-sided; Panthers claimed that the cops had staged the raid to murder black leaders. Last week further shadows were cast on the police story when the state abruptly dropped all charges, including that of attempted murder, against the seven Panthers who survived...
...Chicago police laboratory had been faulty. Also, some of the evidence would have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that the incident was not "a shootout, it was a shoot...
...Angeles. Unlike many of his peers across the land, he enjoys the respect and affection of most of his teachers and students. But this week Chuck Young confronts an impossible dilemma: he must decide whether to rehire Angela Davis, 26, a black assistant professor of philosophy, a former Black Panther and a self-avowed Communist. "The board of regents and the public want her out," says Young, "and the faculty will lose faith in me if I don't sign her up again...