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...police left behind spent cartridges and bullet holes indicating, according to a Federal grand jury, that they had fired between 83 and 99 times. There was evidence of only one Panther bullet. Roughly half of the police bullets had come from a Thompson submachine gun, which spit most of its bullets through a thin living-room wall into a tiny room where Fred Hampton, the Panthers' Chicago chairman, died...
...Chavez (for his belief in nonviolence), Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (he said if there is hope for peace, it lies in depolarizing sex roles), Franklin Thomas (president of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant restoration project), U.S. Congressman Ron Dellums (he appeals to a coalition of havenots) and Black Panther Bobby Seale, who made the pantheon with his statement that "real manhood depends on the subjugation...
...Gainesville Eight thus joined the Chicago Seven, the Camden 28, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Angela Davis, and several Black Panther groups who have beaten conspiracy indictments. There are no other major conspiracy trials pending at present. Conspiracy seems to spin in other directions these days, and the Justice Department has its hands full. It may well decide to pursue the prosecution of radicals less frequently in the future...
Here are two of the nation's more stylish and intelligent white writers bringing back the Black Panthers for postmortems. Michael Arlen examines the 1969 raid in which 14 heavily armed Chicago plainclothesmen broke into a Panther headquarters and killed Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. Murray Kempton recapitulates the trial of the 21 Panthers who allegedly conspired to murder policemen and blow up New York department stores. In each case, the author's sympathies are pointedly with the Panthers...
...PANTHER PLOT. Earlier this month, New Orleans police received tips from the predominantly black central city area concerning possible trouble during the Nixon visit. Despite attempts to verify the rumors, law officers could come up with no substantial evidence. Then three weeks ago a paid informant reported a meeting of six Black Panther militants. The informant had not been present, but had been told that assassination plans were discussed and a gun "changed hands." Police Superintendent Giarrusso informed both the FBI and the Secret Service of his information and turned over to both bureaus the names...