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Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, former Black Panther, was released last spring after being imprisoned for 25 years for murder. Many believe that Pratt held as a political prisoner...
...scheming to be rid of House Speaker Gingrich, DeLay and his co-conspirators showed all the talent for intrigue of Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther days. Depending on who's doing the telling, the schemers included one, two or all three of the other House leaders ranked directly below the Speaker--majority leader Dick Armey, G.O.P. conference chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Bill Paxon--not to mention 20 or more insurgents from the rank and file. Cooked up in secrecy, the coup collapsed before it could begin. The result was a week of backstabbing that left Gingrich weaker...
BOBBY SEALE, 60, Philadelphia, co-founder of the Black Panther Party...
Elmer ("Geronimo") Pratt's release from prison evoked memories of the Black Panther Party, which the once militant Seale helped create in 1966. In 1969 Seale's courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight (they were tried for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention) caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and gagged. In 1973 Seale tried working within the system, running unsuccessfully for mayor of Oakland, Calif. He has since published a memoir and a cookbook, Barbeque'n with Bobby. These days his political focus is on "civil-human rights." He is a volunteer...
RELEASED. ELMER ("Geronimo") PRATT, 49, feisty Black Panther who maintained throughout 27 years in prison that the FBI framed him for murder; on bail; in Santa Ana, Calif. The judge recently overturned Pratt's 1972 conviction because of revelations that the key prosecution witness had been a bureau informant...