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...stories are compelling, almost without exception, because they cover familiar ground; and also because they contain a prophetic mixture of anger and sentiment that only a Jewish leftist can cultivate, this "son of Marx enemy of Freud" having lived through the terrorist double-think of the McCarthy and Rosenberg red-hate days. Yet the real horror for Michaels is always inward--he is less concerned with the world than with the hammerlock it holds on the individual, the tortured march that the instincts are forced to undergo in the service of civilization...
Hall's remaking of the Klan reached its peak in 1915 when he founded a secret left-terrorist organization called the Clan of Toil, clearly modeled in its air of mystery and vigilante spirit on the Klan but dedicated to "bettering immediately the economic condition of the Southern Worker" and "making USE and OCCUPANCY the only title to land." Hall saw in the ills of the South in 1915--tenant farming, poverty, exploitative land and factory owners--a great many similarities to Reconstruction, when his father's generation had complained of the same things, but Hall blamed them...
...from an S.L.A. document said to have been found at the Harrises' apartment after their arrest. The paper, which had no identifiable author, declared that the S.L.A. had grabbed Patty in revenge for the arrest on Jan. 10, 1974 of Russell Little and Joseph Remiro, members of the terrorist group who were later sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Marcus Foster, Oakland's superintendent of schools. The S.L.A. was convinced that the Hearst family was powerful enough to secure the release of Little and Remiro in exchange for Patty...
...Cabinet three times last week. After Friday's session, the government announced a shake-up of the army command, naming a tough new head of the Guardia Civil and new commanders for four military regions, including Madrid. The next day, the government released eleven Basques being held for terrorist acts. Four Basques remain in jail, awaiting sentences for cop-killing; under a law enacted last August, a mandatory death sentence faces anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
...nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Rather than society's aberrants or 'spoilers of purity,' men who commit rape have served in effect as front-line masculine shock troops, terrorist guerrillas in the longest sustained battle the world has ever known...