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Clay had said that he would "take anything that comes like a man," and he kept his word. Though H. Rap Brown, 23, rabble-rousing leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, attached himself to the former champ during the first day of the trial, Clay refused to lend himself to Black Power demagoguery. And when U.S. Attorney Morton Susman, who both likes and admires Clay, suggested that "the Greatest" was nothing more than a hapless dupe of the Muslims, who had used him for their own political ends, Clay quickly interjected: "If I can say so, sir, my religion...
Inevitably, there were sneers of "Uncle Tom." In Atlanta, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman H. Rap Brown growled: "To the brothers putting on the white hats-you are to be regarded as traitors, and will be dealt with as traitors." But in Dayton, where the youth patrol of 30 effectively broke up disorderly crowds and performed liaison between their peers and police, many Negro residents told the white hats: "God bless...
...week's end, after damages totaling more than $1.5 million, Cincinnati's tremors subsided toward an uneasy peace-but not before the riot mood had spread to Dayton, 50 miles to the north. There S.N.C.C. Chairman H. Rap Brown, fresh from the Prattville mob scene, urged Negroes to "take the pressure off Cincinnati," and advised them that "the honkey (white man) is your enemy. How can you be nonviolent in America, the most violent country in the world? You better shoot that man to death." As the pattern of burning and looting emerged in Dayton for the second...
...endless procession of witnesses, ranging from ambassadors to ex-convicts, turned up at the Palais de Justice. Judges and jury were harangued by 15 lawyers and deluged with more than 5,000 documents. Last week the trial finally came to a halt. Only two defendants drew any significant rap: the part-time secret-service agent got eight years in prison; a vice-squad cop six. Oufkir, still safe in Morocco, was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment, as were the four French gangsters who are still on the lam. Colonel Dlimi, who dramatically surrendered to French police during the trial...
...Tyler, Texas, and found that the state was willing to ease up on him. In a 45-minute, no-witness hearing, District Judge J. P. Power accepted cheerful Billie's "no contest" plea, handed him a dainty three-year sentence that will run concurrently with the federal rap and make him eligible for parole...