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Diekerhof and most of Aktie are critical of the outgoing Administration's Viet Nam policies. To support the movement, Aktie has sold more than 30,000 copies of a 55-page booklet called The White House-to-House Plan, which takes positions akin to those of Senator McCarthy and denounces Viet Nam as a "dirty war." The booklet's back page is a multiple-choice questionnaire for mailing to the New York Times, and most of those who have sent it in share Aktie's views. Diekerhof insists, however, that Aktie is not anti-American. "The McCarthyites...
...wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called him a white racist...
...press conference later, the two men explained that the black stockings represented poverty; the black fists meant black power and black unity. Said Smith: "We are black and proud to be black. White America will say 'an American won,' not 'a black American won.' If it had been something bad, they would have said 'a Negro.' " Added Carlos, somewhat disjointedly: "White people seem to think we're animals. I want people to know we're not animals, not inferior animals, like cats and rats. They think we're some sort...
Shocked by the extreme severity of the punishment, other U.S. athletes-both black and white-rallied to Smith and Carlos' defense. "This is terrible, awful," said Highjumper Ed Caruthers, a Negro. "If Tommie and John have to go home," said Sprinter Ron Freeman, "I think there will be a lot of guys going home." "Some white ones too," added Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly. Most distraught by Smith and Carlos' suspension was their close friend and fellow militant Lee Evans, favorite to win last week's 400-meter dash at Mexico City. So shaken that...
...more dissimilar Olympians would be hard to imagine. Al Oerter is 32 and white, a hulking 260-pounder who lives with his wife and two children on suburban Long Island and works as supervisor of the computer communications department at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Bob Beamon is 22, black and bearded, a gangling 160-lb. product of the streets of New York who attends the University of Texas at El Paso on a track scholarship-and says that he would rather be playing basketball. Last week in Mexico City, each in his own way demonstrated what the Olympic Games...