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PERHAPS--AS SHE contends--the international movement to free Angela Davis that sprang up in 1970 after her arrest on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy would have been just as massive if it had been centered around some other political prisoner. The era of massive political protests was still in full force and during the previous year there had been a number of strong defense committees set up for several comrades--the Soledad Brothers, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Erica Huggins. But the millions of people who signed petitions and donated money to over 200 chapters of the National United...
...opened the scoring, but missed the conversion. Harvard came right back as Taylor sprang loose for a 60-yard TD run. Jim Curry's conversion gave the Crimson a 7-6 lead, and Gordon then connected with Ticknor for 20 yards and a score. Curry's kick made it 14-6 at the end of the period...
...Guard" out of office if he were elected Governor. At the start of his campaign, Boren, 33, was scarcely known outside Oklahoma Baptist University, where he teaches government, and the state capitol, where he is a four-term representative. But his message caught on, and "Boren Broom Brigades" sprang up all over the state. Last week they swept the chubby, soft-spoken Rhodes scholar to a decisive win over Congressman Clem R. McSpadden, 48, in the Democratic primary runoff...
This attitude makes sense, because both the New American Movement and the Democratic-Socialists Organizing Committee--in their national and Harvard-Radcliffe incarnations--sprang up after the climaxes of student protest, and because the Students for a Democratic Society, one of the last organized holdovers from that era, dissolved earlier this month...
...days before the jump, Knievel appeared at the launch site to pose for pictures. When someone asked him to smile, Knievel responded by snarling "I don't smile unless I want to. Who asked me to smile?" Singling out NBC Cameraman Jim Watt as the culprit, Knievel sprang at him and beat him to the ground with his $22,000 gold-and-dia-mond-headed walking stick. A crowd of bikers, kept behind a chain-link fence, roared their approval, and moments later stomped on a U.P.I, reporter and ground out a cigarette butt on his forehead. Enraged...