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...field work and that of other Government agencies, the Army has compiled dossiers in its computer at Fort Holabird, Md., on between 2,000 and 5,000 individuals and numerous political organizations. The records are not even limited to such avowedly revolutionary groups as the Black Panthers or the Weathermen. Also among them are respected organizations like the N.A.A.C.P. and the American Civil Liberties Union. The Army has also circulated to base commanders a six-volume "blacklist" of dissidents and their organizations...
Many of the open-end-type subpoenas issued on the press have sought information about the Panthers or the white radical Weathermen. The U.S. attorneys who obtained them are well aware of Mitchell's hard line on both dissident groups; they also know he favors "no-knock" authority for police investigating some cases. Thus, these attorneys may have thought they were carrying out Mitchell's desires, if not his orders. But an aide stressed that Mitchell had not promoted the trend. "Some eager beavers were off on a hunting trip," he offered, "and we're going...
...pattern was repeated after the Weathermen staged their window-breaking "wargasm" in Chicago last October. Within a week, government attorneys had subpoenas on the desks of local editors and station managers, and a special county grand jury followed suit. Last Decembers gun battle between police and Black Panthers set off another round. Lawyers preparing a defense for seven Panthers subsequently charged with attempted murder say they have served some 50 subpoenas to "virtually all media sources in Chicago." The subpoenas order, among other things, access to reporters' notebooks...
...Supermarket Racer option has shown its bankruptcy in the pathetic forms of frantic, dawn-to-dusk errand-running P.T.A. mothers and ulcer-ridden financier uncles. The search has brought some of us to Harvard and is beginning to turn many of us away from it. It has fostered acidheads, Weathermen, Krishna- consciousness chanters, junkies...
IMAGINE for a moment a newspaper whose circulation is limited to members of Nixon's Cabinet plus the Weathermen, or to a random sampling of soldiers on either side of the DMZ. The you will have some idea of what it is like to put out a newspaper in a university at war. Anyone who has ever written a news story knows that the subjects of the story almost always complain about the results. That is usually a good sign, since the reporter tries to get a more detached view than any of the participants. And most newspapers are usually...