Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BLACK GUERRILLA FAMILY. An offshoot of the terrorist Black Liberation Army, the family has several hundred members inside California prisons. After being released, some former family members have gravitated to other underground radical groups but have found the transition difficult. Explains a state law official: "They often bristle at the notion that the leadership is likely to be female. Some of them just can't hack it and move out of the radical scene...
...underground life is austere and squalid. Using phony names, many hard-core radicals collect welfare payments and food stamps. Their time is largely spent shoplifting food and other necessities, stealing purses, cashing forged checks, searching for new hideouts and plotting. "It's a tough, dirty life," says Larry D. Grathwohl, 27, a San Francisco area resident who is the only FBI informant known to have successfully penetrated the Weather Underground. Although his experiences took place from November 1969 until April 1970, law officials believe that they still accurately reflect underground life in California and elsewhere. Last week TIME Correspondent...
After the Weatherpeople went underground in February to escape police surveillance, they adopted a pyramidal organization. At the top was the Weather Bureau, a leadership council that included Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers, the group's theoretician and son of the chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. Through members acting as couriers, the leaders kept in touch with a nationwide network of four-or five-member cells which were constantly on the run. Known as "foco," the Spanish word for "focus" or "center," they each operated independently, recruiting new members and carrying out bombings and other...
...Life underground for the 200 members was a grubby odyssey of communal apartments, petty theft and clandestine meetings. Supported by as many as 4,000 sympathizers, the hard-core members lived in "safe houses" that were typically located in rundown working-class neighborhoods or near campuses. In addition, several havens were provided in middle-class neighborhoods by wealthy sympathizers...
Since then, except for a few threats made by telephone and in underground newspapers, the Weatherpeople have left him alone. Instead of revenge, they have paid more attention to tightening and purging their organization. Says Grathwohl: "I think they learned something from their experience with...