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...Huey P. Newton, who founded the Party with Seale in 1966, is out of jail now-free on bail pending appeal of his manslaughter conviction. Although during his imprisonment the Panthers virtually canonized him, and expected him to revitalize the Party, Newton has not proved the vital leader the Party needs...
Last week the case took an astonishing turn with the disappearance of Michael Tabor and Richard Moore, two of the four defendants free on bail. The two others who had been free, both women, were promptly remanded to jail. An angered Huey Newton, cofounder, minister of defense and supreme commander of the Black Panthers, expelled Tabor and Moore from the party. He denounced them as "enemies of the people," whose disappearance had "propped up the dying case of the prosecution" and jeopardized the chances of the rest of the accused to go free on bail...
...Newton was also enraged by the apparent defection of his personal secretary, Connie Matthews, who married Tabor two months ago. Missing with her were some of Newton's private papers-documents that Newton considered important to the defense of Panther Chairman Bobby Seale in his murder trial in New Haven...
Intercommunalism. The split was further complicated when Newton read nine of the remaining defendants out of the party. Their offense, apparently, was an open letter to the Weatherman faction last month, critical of Moore and Tabor. The party and other supporters had arranged their bail ($150,000) because of the pair's leadership qualities. Both Tabor, 24, and Moore, 28, had been counted on to attract support-and money-for those still in jail. Their performance failed to live up to expectations. But no one thought that Moore and Tabor would run out. It had seemed that they were...
...York incident underscored the worsening factionalism and rebellion against discipline among the Panthers. For years there has been dissension between the leadership, based in Oakland and represented by Newton and Seale, and the less prominent New York group. The New Yorkers have resented what they consider autocratic rule from a distance. They have also remained relatively close to black nationalism, while Newton has broadened his view to what he calls "intercommunalism"-a willingness to cooperate with a variety of revolutionaries, including whites...