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Maher said he joined Progressive Labor "in terms of personal commitment" a month ago. He officially became a member of the party at its opening convocation in New York two weeks ago. "I stopped attending the meetings of the national M-2-M about two weeks before I joined PL, simply because I did not have enough time, "Maher said...
...article in the Post, Luce said that PL had a secret arms cache in New York, that members had been conducting target practice on, Long Island before the Harlem riots, that a small group was being chosen to go underground and learn the techniques of sabotage in case of war with Communist China, and that many members of PL were being trained in karate for defense against the police...
...statement Maher helped write that is being distributed by PL across the country accuses Luce of having been dropped for other reasons: "like all of us he was under tremendous pressure. He was facing 20 years in jail and a $20,000 fine for having visited Cuba. Early this year, we had discovered that he had succumbed to these pressures. To escape, he began using heroin, embezzling funds form the movement to pay for his need; indeed, he finally sold out to the police, to the 'destroy-PL' campaign. To feed his illness, to escape form the reality...
Maher does not plan to drop out of M-2-M at Harvard because of his own membership in PL. He is also one of the three chairmen on the steering committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club...
Several Harvard Faculty members will participate in a discussion of English-French bilingualism at 8:30 p.m. tonight at 2 Channing Pl., off Brattle Square...