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...extremists, the first signal illumination came in the explosion last March that ripped up a Weatherman bomb factory in Manhattan, killing three members of the group. Weatherman activity declined, and then, early in December, Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, one of the group's leaders, issued a manifesto that was at once a critique of past mistakes and a manual for future strategy...
...radicals, it was a new political awakening. The bombers had at last learned what millions of angry Americans had known all along?that the Weatherman was little more than an underground collective of grimly moralistic Bonnies and Clydes. Analyzing Weatherman tactics in a forthcoming Ramparts article, Writer David Horowitz observes that the terrorists overlooked the political consequences of their deeds; karma was their trip. Revolution had almost ceased to be a strategy of social change and had become instead its own justification, a cult, "a yoga of perfection." The result was that the Weatherman had lost, not gained ground...
...likely that the final nudge toward at least a temporary renunciation of Weatherman violence came from Radical Priest Daniel Berrigan. Last August, three days before he was arrested, Berrigan sent the outlaw band a brotherly and eloquent admonition, warning that "no principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being." Revolution is only "interesting" insofar as it "avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal." Berrigan urged the Weatherman to "do only that which one cannot not do," and reminded them that "the history of the movement in the last years, it seems to me, shows...
...whole new breed of TV comedy-variety show has evolved. It is the local newscast. Or at least the subspecies of newscast that has adopted what the trade calls the "happy-talk" format. On such programs the anchor man, the weatherman and the sportsman have been supplanted by a happy-go-lucky bunch of banana men. They are not the old authority figures, but just-folks team players. Cronkite is out; Gemütlichkeit is in. What counts is not how the banana men relate the news, but how they relate to each other...
...grand jury is investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase explosives in Tucson and transport them to California...