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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Context of Conspiracy
...Under the heading "Police and Panthers: Growing Paranoia" [Dec. 19], I was quoted as follows: "I'm changing my mind and they (the Panthers) will have my support." Since my comments were taken entirely out of context and considerably abridged, this "quotation" is erroneous and extremely misleading...
...this context, i.e., the conspiracy which so many of us feel exists unlawfully and systematically to murder the leadership of the Black Panthers and thus eliminate them as a "threat," that my comments to your representative were uttered. If and when there are contraventions of law by Black Panthers, or others, there are legal provisions for their prosecution and punishment. Certainly, my argument is not against the application of legal procedure. But justice cannot exist unless it is both dispensed and administered evenhandedly...
...horror of Biafra was the moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...
...pocket (where there were plenty others), assure them that that was the end of our money, so $5 it would have to be. The energy we invested in arguments over $50c or a dollar verged on the unbelievable. But none of it was strange in the context of the game...