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...five were cited for contempt late last year when they refused to answer questions put to them at Federal grand jury hearings in Tucson, Arizona. The grand jury was convened ostensibly for the purpose of investigating an alleged Weatherman plot to purchase dynamite in Tucson and transport it to California...
...FRANCISCO- A letter signed with the name of Bernardine Dohrn, a Weatherman leader on the FBI's most wanted list, threatened today a new wave of attacks on police and federal installations...
...like "academic freedom" and "Free World," but also to overcome the somewhat arbitrary tendency of the press to concentrate its coverage on spectacles. Reading the book, we are less likely to encounter the verbiage the New York Times brought us about Woodstock than fascinating pieces by John Holt and Weatherman Bill Ayers on the need for revolutionary forms in education, personal accounts of radicalization, and essays on the women's movement...
Classes are well attended; library lights burn into the night; almost all extremists of the white Weatherman variety have dropped out of school. In New Haven last spring, Yale students held a pretrial sympathy strike for Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby G. Scale, who is charged with murder. Last week only 60 people showed up for the trial. Some former protest targets now draw cheers instead of boos. When Harvard University President Nathan Pusey addressed Harvard freshmen in September, for example, he got a standing ovation...
Cattle Bin. No one has yet proved that a conspiracy really exists. "The basic problem here is paranoia," insists Lawyer Norman Brisson, whose firm represents one of the young defendants. "I don't believe our kids have ever met a Weatherman." Other citizens have begun to wonder if the letters and explosives may not be just sick pranks. Since one device had "school" written on it, many young people agree with a self-styled radical student: "That was a joke. The school is run like a cattle bin. We've got to change it, and if we have...