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...pretty radical named Stella Richardson put it more succinctly to her audience in San Francisco: "You don't do it by hollering peace. You got to pick up the gun." Using the Moratorium for their own ends, radical gangs with no seeming goal beyond closing down the University of California at Berkeley touched off the most violent, anarchistic and ugly riots in the long riot history of the school. Mobs of up to 1,000 roamed the campus, throwing rocks through windows, battling police, attacking the administration and ROTC buildings. Though many university students joined in, the field tacticians...
...damage to the Harvard Square area. As elsewhere, student radicals were joined by street gangs for the "trashing." There were 40 arrests. In Washington, D.C., there was little violence but much ugly rhetoric. Said David Otto, 23, a former Peace Corpsman who heads the capital's Moratorium Committee, "Some came in the name of revolution, and there was nothing anyone could do about them. They try to take over everything. The police, the unions, the Government workers-they're against them all. What they want, I think, is a basic end to pacifism...
Hilliard had been free on bail on charges that he had threatened the life of President Nixon at the antiwar Moratorium rally in San Francisco last November. Seale has already been sentenced to four years in prison for contempt during the conspiracy trial of the Chicago Seven. Huey Newton, Panther cofounder, is in jail for manslaughter. Eldridge Cleaver is in fugitive exile in Algeria. Fred Hampton, Panther leader in Illinois, and Bobby Hutton, the national treasurer, died in gun fights with police. With Hilliard and Douglas locked up, Raymond Masai Hewitt and Don Cox now become the ranking Panthers still...
...approach to the talks, which could prove to be the most significant negotiations of the nuclear age. Acting on Nixon's instructions, the U.S. delegation is unlikely to propose any plan nearly so bold as one contained in a recent U.S. Senate resolution, which recommends "an immediate mutual moratorium" on the deployment of strategic weapons. There were reports, however, that the President has decided to take a broader position at the talks than was originally recommended by some White House advisers. A major imponderable for U.S. policymakers is the leadership situation in the Soviet Union. If Party Boss Leonid...
...role of King Xerxes' mother, as does J.A. Preston as the bearer of unbearable news. Underscoring the dialogue like a chorus of tears is the santur music of Composer Nasser Rastegar-Nejad. If someone had commissioned a great poet-playwright to write a drama for a Moratorium Day, this would...