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Third: The recent bombing of the Center was in part encouraged by an attitude toward violence fostered by various individuals and groups in the community. The Weathermen, SDS, and NAC may differ on tactics, but each asserts its intent to destroy the Center and has committed violence or condoned its use for that purpose as each considered expedient. The H-R NAC letter in the CRIMSON last Saturday is only the latest expression of such views. It endorses once more the use of terrorism and stresses the "legitimacy and necessity of violence," while uncertain about the tactical value of this...
...policeman in Chicago's Haymarket Square, ripped apart a courtroom in San Rafael, Calif., a Reserve Officers Training Corps building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, and damaged an armory in Santa Barbara, Calif. A fifth blast rocked a courthouse in New York City. The Weathermen immediately claimed responsibility for three of the blasts, and it appeared that their boasts were not idle. Equally chilling was the threat from the radical organization of more to come...
...Quentin prisoners in which Judge Harold Haley, two convicts and 17-year-old Jonathon Jackson were killed. The notes dedicated the bombing to all political prisoners and to "an incredible new breed of freedom fighters, fighting where there is no place to hide." It was signed by "The Weathermen Underground," the same closing used on the Dohrn tape...
...Daily News to the impending explosion. The caller also implied that the bombing was in retaliation for the quashing of a prisoner takeover in an adjacent jail. The identity of the saboteurs in the other two explosions is not certain, but the tactics have all the earmarks of the Weathermen. In Seattle, as in New York and San Rafael, authorities were tipped off in advance of the bombings. The Santa Barbara arsenal serves as the staging point for the area's National Guard troops, the ones who frequently draw riot duty...
Since the Weathermen's Chicago Days of Rage in October 1969, few have failed to take the bomb-happy organization seriously. But the timing and breadth of the latest explosions lend an even more ominous tone to the desperate threats of Bernardine Dohrn's taped message. "It is our job to blast away the myths of the total superiority of the Man," she said. In pursuing that fantasy, the bombers are more likely to destroy whatever patience remains in a nation already too tense for its own good...