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...characterized by uppers and downers, and this spring may bring more uppers than anybody cares to see. Radical Rennie Davis, for example, is organizing a mass demonstration aimed at strangling highway traffic near the Pentagon on May 6. There are unquestionably many people, both in and out of the Weatherman faction, who still believe that the way to salvation is a pipe bomb and a fuse. Trashing is still considered a reliable tactic in many radical quarters, as is "selective" violence...
...more than a decade, young radicals have seized brief, Warholesque fame with bullhorns and sometimes with their bodies. Many of them have now disappeared into a reclusive existence at home or exile abroad. Consider: Mark Rudd underground with the Weatherman. Stokely Carmichael in self-imposed exile in Guinea. Fiery Berkeley Communist Bettina Aptheker in a house in San Jose to rear her child and write a book. Former S.D.S. President Carl Oglesby writing songs on a Vermont farm and lecturing at M.I.T. John Lewis, S.N.C.C. co-founder who once promised to sweep the civil rights movement "through the South...
...wanton bombings by urban guerrillas on the other, have instilled in students a profound fear of repression and violence. One of the few clear trends on all campuses is a rededication to a Gandhi-like philosophy of nonviolence. Yale's Brewster says: "It is much more clearly recognized that Weatherman beget Minutemen...
...Paris last week, Revel took note of what he terms the "breathing spell" in the U.S. "This is a period of stabilization," he said. "The radicals, the Weatherman, the Black Panthers have put water in their wine. They're not backtracking, but they now understand better what must be done if they're to be effective. They realize that extremism, pure violence, cuts them off from protesting youth." But the revolution, in Revel's terms, has not been defused. "The left's ideas of five or six years ago have been adopted and are now being digested by large sectors...
...drug-related accidents. Terrorized by the influx of debilitating drugs, diluted by Woolworth hippies, the movement limped through the past two years a paranoid, fragmented version of its former self. Its political wing, which served mainly as theater, degenerated into bad theater, then the insane violence of the Weatherman. No longer buoyed by hope of a gradual takeover of the System, the culture finally faced up to the fact that General Motors was not going to go away and that some accommodation would have to be made with the larger society...