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Shot on Sight. Cinque is believed to be an escaped black convict named Donald D. DeFreeze. The theory that DeFreeze is not the true leader of the S.L.A. is supported by a man with a rare personal knowledge of the man and the organization. Colston Westbrook, 36, a black instructor in linguistics at Berkeley, met DeFreeze while visiting California's Vacaville prison to take part in the activities of the Black Cultural Association. The S.L.A. partly evolved from the group. Westbrook recalls De-Freeze as "a cat submerged in divine blackness and interested in black problems." But now, Westbrook...
...Westbrook made his comments to TIME Correspondent Joseph N. Boyce, who found the linguist living in a small apartment house near the Berkeley campus. The drapes were drawn, the door was double-latched, and on the kitchen table was an electronic device that Westbrook said could be used to alert the police...
...Westbrook had good reason to be holed up. On the same tape with Patty Hearst's latest message was a warning from Cinque that the S.L.A. had named three persons "to be shot on sight" as "enemies of the people." One of the three was Westbrook. The other two: Robyn Steiner, a white girl who used to live with the S.L.A.'s Russell Little; and Chris Thompson, a black resident of Berkeley, who knew several members of the S.L.A. but denies ever having joined...
While Rutledge was not in contention for the sabre title himself, he had a direct hand in determining the winner, turning back NYU's Peter Westbrook, 5-2, to hand the Violet star his first loss in the NCAAs in two years and knock him into a tie with Wayne State's Steve Danosi for first in sabre. Danosi bested Westbrook in the fence-off for the title...
...winning the individual crown. Ackerman, a member of the Swedish Olympic team, was never in serious trouble in Saturday's finals. In epee, NYU's Albert Peters upset his more highly-touted teammates Risto Hurme and Hans Weiselgrin to win the individual title, and still another NYU teammate, Peter Westbrook, bested Columbia's Tom Losonczy in a fence-off for the sabre title...