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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STATE'S desire to think of the Panthers as an isolated clique of crazed anarchists gave rise to another repressive tactic. If the party can be severed from its dynamic leadership, the logic seemed to go, it would eventually wither and die. And so the party's four most charismatic leaders, its organizers and spiritual guardians, are all indisposed. Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, discovered on October 28, 1967, with four bullets in his stomach and a dead cop at his side, has been put away indefinitely for "involuntary manslaughter," a crime be couldn't possibly have committed. Other...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: The Panthers Fascist Tactics of Repression | 3/24/1970 | See Source »

...bombing tactic of the "Revolutionary Force 9" must be rejected as useless and counterproductive. It violates all principles of mass understanding and democratic participation. It will do nothing to win social change...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: "Bombs Bursting in Air" Urban Terrorism | 3/19/1970 | See Source »

Bennett disagrees, of course, not only with the Campaign GM criticisms of management, but with the whole tactic of a stockholders' challenge on social issues. This is the first proxy challenge of its kind that he has been forced to vote on. Although a legitimate business maneuver. Bennett simply doesn't approve. "As a matter of procedure, we can be more persuasive by being friendly than by getting into a proxy fight and trying to snap the corporate whip." he said...

Author: By Scorr W. Jacobs, | Title: The Endowment What's Good for GM | 3/17/1970 | See Source »

...feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting slogans, epithets and five-syllable words. While the ball occasionally ends up in my mouth, 65% of the fans who have watched this maneuver approve of it." Another Udall tactic was "the Haynsworth-Carswell shuffle-sending in a series of second and third stringers, one after another, until one of them scores." Neither Udall's wit nor his jump shot-he was a basketball star at the University of Arizona-could stop the Republicans. Thanks largely to California Congressman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1970 | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...same time, lawyers for the Panthers began a legal challenge to Murtagh's novel tactic for bringing order back to the courtroom. In a request to State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy for a writ of habeas corpus, they contend that Murtagh's action has the effect of holding the defendants in contempt without the safeguard of specified charges or an opportunity to rebut them in a formal procedure. Murtagh's demand for a written promise to behave, they added, violated their rights by asking them to admit prior criminal behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Caged Panthers | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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