Word: rubins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BARKING DEER by Jonathan Rubin...
...hopes to see two more men freed soon. Last week, because of stories by Raab, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner was considering reopening the murder convictions of Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter and Grocery Clerk John Artis after a 1966 shoot-out in Paterson, N.J. Raab was instrumental in getting two witnesses to admit that they had lied about seeing Carter and Artis at the murder scene...
...from the rich under the threat of an innocent woman's death, while Randolph Hearst seemed a man genuinely concerned for the welfare of the masses. The SLA's topsy-turvy tactics were condemned by Ramparts and a host of activists including Cesar Chavez, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Jane Fonda. Even the Weather Underground expressed its sympathy for the SLA cautiously; only the Black Liberation Army, a Black Panther splinter group, supported the SLA with enthusiasm...
...Rubin grew up in New York City. In 1961 he graduated from Cornell with a major in wildlife conservation. He enlisted in the Green Berets "because there was a guerrilla war going on in Southeast Asia, and hi those innocent times I wanted to be part of it." He went to Viet Nam in 1962 with one of the early U.S. groups trained in counterinsurgency. He learned the language of the Rhade, a major Montagnard tribe (the one portrayed in The Barking Deer), and some-tunes acted as an interpreter between Montagnards and Vietnamese. The Rhade culture fascinated Rubin...
...really wanted that record" said stroke Clint Rubin, "but we'll take...