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This is not to say I oppose all underground activities. The "railroad" seems to
have served a useful purpose in slavery days.
Helping Jews escape was humanitarian, but
the evidence there suggests it was most suo
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cessful whete the activists were most open,
the
many
in
France
and
in
Trocme
with
as
Denmark who publicly defied the Nazis
Wheie only one's own skin is at stake I
feel the witness ofaccepiing the establishment's decreed consequences is, $tronger
than when. evading thenr. Consider the
young factory worker who stood with four others in Moscow with signs protesting
the invasíon ofCzechoslovakia. At lüs sentencing he reportedly said thetrhree minutes
in Red Square was wo¡th the three years in

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is not always worth the risks I aàmit
speak from little experience in adulthood
with personal violence. I was once struck
several times in the face by a single man

and fell to the pavement, breaking my fall
with my hands and then taking a sitting
position. My assailant went indoors where
we had been talking, probably expecting
me tô.leave. However, I simply sat there,
eyes closed and meditating. He came out,
tried to shoo me away, then went inside
again. I úas not aware of any pain, but
continued sitting. When hg came out a
second time he tried to coax me to stand
by picking up my glasses and holding them
out, and was more amicable. Eventually
I stood up and we walked out the driveway
to our respective cars after he volunteered
the information I had come for.
In the above incident I o,perhaps,'-to
use David's qualifier-might have run off

without pursuit. For a sexagenarian, heart

Bhole Ji, Maharaj J¡'s brother conducts the 56-premie rock and roil þand at Millen¡um'73
at the Houston Astrodome, Photo by B¡il Kind.

LETTERS
We thought we would write simply to
thank you for Noam Chomsky's piece on
the Middle East in the November 8, l9'13,
issue. Chomsky and a few others in the
United States have been speaking out
thoughtfully and critically on this issue.
but irrational cries of "self-haters" or
"rnasquerading antisemites" have all but
drowned out the essential rational dialoguc that must take place concerning the
Mitldle East, We hope that in the future
WIN will air Chomsky's thoughts and the
views of critical Ame¡icans and oppositiorr
ary Israelis and Palestinians so that WIN
reaclcrs can'exarnine the cornþlexity of the
issuc involvcd. Again, we thank WIN foi
thc Chonrsky articlc. --MARTIN BLATT
PAULA RAYMAN

Somerville, Mass"
This responds to two recent WIN articlcs tlealing with the related subjects of
living undergrountl (Tom Smits, Sept. 27)
and running away (David McReynolds, Oct.
l8), Although the contexts of the two
picccs were dilferent, in principle the suggestions rverc siurilar.
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David probably expected to be challenged for saying that ". . .On the evidence,
we know the¡e are times when there are no
defenses except, perhapg running," for he
knows the¡e are still plenty of Gandhians in
the peace movement; that, with few exceptions, rurtning from danger would be
cowardice; that Gandhi's sole exception
for allowing violence was if it were the
only alternative to cowardice. (Which according to him it nevet would be, since
there is always the third alternative of nonviolent resistance.) But rather than quote
from the Mahatma I shall put my objection
in my own words;
To be coerced or intimidated by violence
is to give it the power which its advocates
seek. Violence in ilself has no power to de
termine results except as both giver and re
ceiver allow it. Thus, from the perspective
of nonviolence, there is not much difference
between using violence and submitting to
violence. On principle, the completely
nonviolent response to an armed robber
would be refusal not only to handing over
the wallet but even to holding uþ the hands.

Nonviolent resistance refuses to u'alk even
the fi¡st mile.

prison I doubt
cause

ing underground and.sabotaging tank

tories.

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29,'1973 Vol.lX Number 36
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Millenium '73: The Guru at the
Astrodome.

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Bill Sonn

Why Amnesty? Two Fpiscides.. ...... .9
Jack Colhoun znd Dee Charles Knight
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Cover: From,a poster available from The
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nineteen Puerto Ricans frorn the South Bronx
are here to tear down the old barn that blocks
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far less than if it were violent. India liberated its hund¡eds of millions with orily
8,000 fatalities.
Related to running fróm personal violence is going underground to escape insti.

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susan cakârs, staff
marty ¡ezer, editor¡al assistant
nancy ¡ohnson, design

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which perhaps can be used for new structures.
the rest is for bonfires today.wf get
most of the sides down before it's time to go swimmìng'.

FELLOW TRAVELERS
lance belv¡lle + lynne coff¡n + diana davre',
ruth deâr + ralph dig¡a + paul enc¡mer { chu¿k
fager + 5s1¡ foldy + iim forest + m¡ke fran¡ch
-,l€ah fritz + larry gara + ne¡l haworth t beôky
¡iJhnson + paul ¡ohnson + alliso.n kalpel + cra¡g
carpel + c¡ndy kent + peter k¡ger + alex knopp
iohn. kype; + dorothy lane + ,rob¡n lalsen
ëllio{..:linz€r. -+. jackson maclow .+ ¡ulie ñiass

david mcrèVnofds + gene meehan +,m¡rk moriis
¡gal roodenko + wendy schwartz + mikg stamm,
martha thomases + br¡an

football and
taking naps cooking supper sitting on
the porch looking at the old barn in fact
through it glimpses of the opfi field when

wester

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evening we are throwing a

to me.
And his suggestion of underground activities, ". . .that people dismantle the er¡
tire military structu¡e by direct action. . . .
without injuring human life," would simi.
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.. nothing is left standing but theufd beams

lieve prisons are repressive-along with Agnew and everybody else who has ever tried
to stay out-and believe some alternative
way of dealing with offeriders is needed.
But Tom seems naive in thinking the State
will permit any large and continuing number oflawbreakers to slip through its finget& The overall effect ofgoing underground is to increase repression rather than

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mary mayo, subscriptions
susän pines, compos¡tion

weekend they have brought their own bread platanos
and some records Saturday we start work

tutional violence. Like Tom Smit I too be'

larly result in mo¡e guards, more FBI agents,
more bugging, etc. Unfortunately the
har¡assed innocent neutrals, stopped by
police for ID cards, will probably blame thÞ
underground rather than the military for
the added inconveniences, and the peace
movement will lose their support.

-FRANKLIN ZAHN

sire both send me 16d worth
Hurqy while tþe supply lasts.

November

Changes.

of suggestions" There will be casualties if
the defense is nonviolent, but hopefully

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the unit cost for over 600 U.S. military
weapóns fróm Condor missiles $519,000
eact¡Jo 3ddog tags Data which hitherfore
has 6een kept secret from the American
public,but not from the dêfense industry.
M1r Oct. newslette¡ is a cost comparison
of weáponS going back to WW II.. A machine
gun cost $74 to.make in )VWII now costs
$750.
I will send my work free to anyone who
sends me a self addressed stamped envelope.
Pleage specify which newsletter. If you de'

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strain could be worse than a few days of
only slightly swollen lip. But certainly we
all know cases whe¡e attackers can, and intend to, out¡un their victims, and on balance
we would have to my that neither violencg
nonviolencq nor flight offers a sure defense
for an individual But it is interesting to
note Gandhi did guarantee safety.for a
third party individua[ saying that the
satya,g¡ahi, by interposing himseff, would
absorb the full violent energy of the attacker,
leaving nothing left over to harm the "loved.
one."
When we come to groupg defense is
surer than for individuals. Bôth nonvio'
lence and violence say the group can be de
fended by individuals willing to risk their
own safety. The draft bõard promises that
the nation will be safe if the draftee is
willing to sacrifice himself. And nonvie
lence says-well at this point David's rppl¡t1
that he has no answer for defending thè
gay "community" is not clear. If he means
a room full of people he surely has plenty

reduce

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he could have served the
peace better by escapin& then go-

¡ want to share with my brothers and
sisters riry work on the cost of peace
Which. as you know is pricelÞss.
In my Aug. newslette¡ I have compiled

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live good in the country learning how to
knock down what's in your way and that moving
together it starts to go down very fast
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He,was pleased with what he saw,-reportedly com'
menting that this was the first reol festival since.the
one thr-ee years ago in which'he had proclaìmed that
he would bring péace to this world. (The festival is
;;;iít heldïov. 8-10 in lndia, whère it is called
Hons tiiantiand commemorates the daf the guru's
taineí á¡ea. ln March,1973, though, Mãharajli had
requested that this yeai the festival be held in Amer'

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Mah.araj Ji slts on hls 35 foot throne.
Crown of Krishna". He denies to the press that he cta¡ms to be god.
ro orscourage hls followers from malil wearing..The
His efforts
n9 the cta¡m have apparenuy tái¡èo. ÞrrõiäõJÞ

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"Saints are guilty until proven Ìnnocent,'

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'73, whic'h was adverrised by thé C;;; M.i;;;;j'Jian¿
his premies.(followers).as,,lh" mãri noiv
un¿'rign¡trcant.event in human history.', And now
onà ãitn"

premies ties.in rhe parking tót or
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ron's Astrodome,. where the three_day festival
had
been staged. He has no name. He liei on his
back,
staring at the sky.
come all the way from Chile to see the per- l-lglt
fect
Master. He had stood with th" f-.¡en órrr¡.,
in theír.speciat secrion in ine óomã i"¿ ,iäít
ii u.,r.
guru's sight, quaked at the guru's
uniioe¡;r.'ánä
ached,with joy, when, on tñat r¡"ui ÀiÀñi,
uavts had presented the guru wittr a gõtdén
swan and

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then.groveled to kiss theÞerfect feet]
The premie speaks no English, unå hi, companion
speaks very.tittle. He and hii rrién¿ naâ ¡e.n
inälf ins
to the morel parking lor from the peeññs Lu"iiä
or

the.Dome very quietly, almost tn.a daze. And then
1n.9ne-t9! he simply lay down, wíth no name, staríñg
full of fright at the sky.
His friend is desperate, for it is 2 a.m. and he
speaks English so poorly and, oh, how to explain it.
fe s-tgps a passerby, and together they gather àver
tne rallen premie, considering what to do about that
stunned, qa.thgtig panic in thè premie's eyes. The
pase,fby thinks the premie is tiipping on'somethíng
Du[ the tflend. says no, premies do not use drugs,
only Knowledge. The passerby says let's eet hïm to
a hospital, but the friend agaín says no. Vou do not ,
understand. He is a premiJand tÉe nospitit-witt
hurt him.
the premie lies wordlessly on the as_
, Meanwhile,
phalt,
without his name, seemingly weaiing only a
quru !t11to1 and an expression t"hát ¡s suréiy seãine
unworldly
things. He is arched in vague pain, parii
lyzed in transcendence.

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"Si, Guru. Maharaj Ji," said the friend, reassuringly,
and at last the premie would be led to the car.

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Witñout a doubt, receiving Knowledge changes
oeooie's lives. The bremies sãem almöst universql,lY
i'apby an¿ at peace with themselves.*'They are easy
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ixiitiruit'tit that, in preparing"for Millenium, a disigi.ãtànt betwe'en premies'\,vould have been sho.ck-.itisJ; ihôr" is no reäson to believe he is exaggerating'

Jiand his Divine Liàht Mission have'been
áíU"¡ne
cr¡tiðiie¿
iust another religious sect that
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post-industrial age'

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to have ãirived in the
Wfi; [no*t what might have been if the J ansenists
orthe Anabaptists trá¿ tra¿ ãn electronic media to
ã*oio¡t às-rhsrouehly

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the premies have done?

li, after ãll, was able to attract TV cameraso
tãuiãt"t Lrs, the Ñew York Times, the Washington-

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inãátternative press to a religious festival.attend.ed

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insignificänt number of people' Billy Graham
as many people to the Astrodome
ãailier tnis year, but could only get local press cov-

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rnillion, wííÍt +OA.p,pOÛ in the United States' lt's a

as religions go.. But.somehdw,
boy arrived in this country
posLpübescent
this Uarélv
iîo ,vãuií ugo"ifo'{ras sinoe:g;otf9n ihe key.s to five :

räËiirJlv.;tit e.-íp,

existence of such a hierarchy-with theì'Holy

iolls Royce and Mercedes, his private planes, his
motorcy¿le, and his expensive camera. eduþm,ent are
all toys'witlr which he likes to amuse himself' Or
they witl say that such çontradictions., betweèn-the
nurú's lif.ttvle and what he says, are just obstacles
"he
intentionally puts in your way. Once you can
'rationalize these obstacles away' you will be a better
premie.
But when pressed on this or any other of the many

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Famiiy" on top, followed by the officers -of piúine
Light Mission, and, finally, the masses oÏ premlesdoisn't in the leasi lessen the devotion the premies
feel towards this 1S-year-old Perfect Master'. Tears
were in their eyes after seeing him. Most readily admit that the institutions built up around the guru are
non-democratic. They are used to cynical questions
comparing their own ascetic lifestyles with t[e gu¡u's.
ãó"iã"t o"ne. They even have a pat answer: the guru's

The passerby suggests the Divine Light Clinic, set

;å

r"rroni.¡ñg), drinking

was the largest attend.ence, and

oiuinðLiel'rt Mission (DLM). While these p-remies
sleot on cãncrete floors, Maharaj Ji was reslding at
th¿ $2500-a-day Celestial Suite of the Astrowoiltl

up especially for Millenium ,73. So thõy pick uþ ttre
premie and gently try to load him into á car. The
premie smells of incense. The premie smells of asphalt.
. OnÌis feet, he tries to wander in thó wrong directron. I he passerby softly tugs him back towards the

the heavens.

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that was only on Saturday night-the festival ran very
smoothlv. Working under 'ten coordinators, "about
a hundrd'd" premies had been organizing Millenium
ior eieht months, and, in the weeks precediqg the
festivãl's start, the number of premies swelled to
'r
somewhere around 20b0' These and other premies
the
Astrodome
at
days
for
three
rental
oaid $75.000
itt'rir *uíu discount from the usual rate of $37,000
a dav). olus another $7500 for the.adjoining Astro'
hall.' io get a sizable chunk of the'guru's claimed4ol'
lowing oieight million to Hoi.tston, one of the-largest
oeucel¡me aì-rlifts ever was planned, A special 175"''rtrin contingent of the Woriá Peace Corps, the guru's
security forãe, was organized,.nominally by Maharai
li's brother Raia libut actually by a premìe named
ioe Looez. wnô ówns a black belt in karate. The
h"r's ölu'b. where Houston's social elitç used to
n"ih"r. was converted into sleeping quarters for about
iõ-OO ór.ti"t and renamed the Rainbow lnn' AnothriiOfiO premies stayed at a converted Coca-Cola factoÑ. wh'ere premie mechaqjcs also worked on main'
ta¡ñíns vehiiles owned by tþe guru's corporate arm,

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ná*leOse islwhat is at the çore of their de
is a secret that you must be preKnowled-ge
votlon.
oãiàã io i.""ive, ñostlv bv expressing a sincere will'
ineness to acceÞt Maharai Ji as the Perfect Master'
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Wñãn uo, are properly"piópared, you go- through

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îh.rt wus plenty tg be pleased with. Despite tþe
disappointing size of t'he crowd-80,000 had been

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conlradictions of the movement, the premies will fall '-"
back on their one infallible argument: that it is use' ' ,1"
t"it io tty to explain it to an outsider who has not-

of the
Muf'ur^j Ji appeared each of the three nights feet
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and
l"üãltãii ieiol utio ns from six legi slative.b od i es,perdiverse
such
from
honors
special
uuiiort other
He þas'
t*"f''ti¡i as Sam Yorty and John Lindsay'
ago
months
six
that
growing
empire
a
ätrãir".ut"A
had an income of $60,000 a w99k and now is rep,ort-

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$r50,000 á week. There is, amon$ others,
iliulnã'Sut"t, Shii Hans Productions, Sh-ri Hans Avia-

i¡on. Oiuine Travel Service, Divine Services and also
i*o'prUlications, a weekly and a monthly' Finall'y,
he- has an ulcer.
Hã* ¿ott he do

it?

Mostly by hype' ln the months

, Uetore Nittenium, DLM loosed a flood of posters and'
asking the question Who is Guru Maharai
to thai, some of

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For example, Swami Gitananda says the guru
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27-years-old and is illegirimate. Giranan¿a. îno

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runs a hospital and university in pqndicherry, lndia,
is a member of the Royal College of Surseoní ¡n
Great Britain, and is president of the WoTtd yoga
Conference, says he has known the guru's family
since before World War ll and thar ñlaharaj ji is'rhe
son of Mata J i (which everyone says is vué\'and hir
guru.. The proof, he says, lies in lndia,s BaÉrat
Sahdu
Samaj, which is described as an organization of gurus
analogous to the College of Cardinals.
., Accordingtothe premies, though, Maharaj Jiis
the soit of Mata Jiand Hans Ji Maharai, who was per_
fect Master until he ,,left his mortal body,' in 1966.
At age eight, Maharaj Ji rhus inherited the tirle.
. ln 1970, he established the first Divine Lieht Mission in the West in London, and then visited ihe U.S.
in 1971. He arrived in Los'Angeles amid rumors that
the.trip w11 þeing financed Uv"r"À"v irorri f,.ioin
dealing, which has neverbeen prourn. Sut it ü provable that, after going to San Fiancisco and suiiounO_
ing towns, his visit to Colorado was brought about
b.y a crash program of hashish sales of u gióup
fur._

ttousty known
Association.

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the Boulder Reputable Deajers

A great many of his American premies have drug
.backgrounds.
president
Bob

Mischler, who is now
of
Divine Light Mission,.was at one time an acid ireak,
until he was arrested in the nude on a Greenwich
Village street and brought to Bellevue Hospital for
treatmert. (He later went West to Denver,'where t¡e
helped found Denver Free University and'deveioped
a.mystical following of his own in the Tr¡_L yoga
Union before finding Maharai Jiand receivineknowl.9oge). A survey by Charles Cameron (describ.-ed as
"our number one evangelist") for the book Who is
Guru Mohora j J i claimed that 96% of the premies in_
terviewed said they,d used drugs. Of these, 6i%

said_they'd used hallucinogens at least once a
month.
Half
.regularly took other stimulantiãf ón" *rt o,
another.
Perhaps because of Rennie Davis' well_publicized
if.appears that a great,uny oî rhe pre_

feminist could be found at the Astrodome, and she
is "not all that typ.ical'". .
rãiä'r'r"i
'-'ìn Nuv,'l
"^p"rience
972, Maharai Ji was asked if religion and
go
oolitics gô together. "sometimes they have to
peo.ple
governs
th-e*
;o"g;É;" hJanswered. "Politics
rél i gio n soverns thJpeople. i nfer na v,
äTiï..i ív
""a
ioii'itually. . .Ghandi wanted to make the Klngdom
åi'p.uã".'Urt that is only possible when the King of
påu"" ir here. . .Actually, the best politician is [the
Perfect Master] , and he is the best spiritual master'
too, because he knows politics and he knows every-

lllyîIlj9l
mtes have political backgrounds.

But t¡1is is not the
case. Tim GiJmore, a premie himself, took another
survcy, this time of what the premieó did before re_
ce.iving Knowledge. Only 1},i(t characterised ihem_
selves as political activists.

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slight, or at

least hardly liberal. ln Denver, r.pi.seniäiivLioi tt,.
local office of the lettuce boyóott have been consis- '
.tently frustrated in trying to enlist DLM's support.

t^'TT'n"ur'

the premies taf k, Maharai Ji is noy an im'
oortant political force in lndia, with much lnlluence
in uná oirt of the Congress Party' Yet this ¡¿y-be an.
exiggeration. The prãmies say that in 197-1.in Pat
Naril lnd¡a, Maharaj Ji's political enÚnies hil9.g a

"Lo.rd.Christ," a play pres.ented at the Millenium,
,,be

included a suggestion to
content with your
1vages." No one commented. Scott Hess. á premie

who used to be in SDS before seeing the Ligirt, says
he would still not cooperate with the ¿raft,"Uui for
:
dtïlerent reasons. He owes his loyalty to Maharaj
Ji,not to the state.
Nor has the women's movement found a home in
the ashrams. Mata Ji, the mother, has gone on at
length in the past on the proper role ofwom"n. who
are supposed.to.stay at home. Before Millenium, one
y:Tu.n.rlo had played a.centralrole in establistring
tne tntncate communications system for the festival
suddenly found herself shut out of a hastily_o rsanized
-iñ
all-male communications central committeó.
pniludelphia, the ashiam has a Divine Services. lnc..-in
which "the men hire out as painters and ihe ilomen
h.ire out as day maids." Stuårt Auspitz, wllo i¡ves
in
the ashram, says ,,lt's not what it seemó. We are
aU
just.doing service for Guru Maharaj
Ji.'; nnj Rennie
Davis says that many premies wno'us˿
i" U" i"rni_
ntsrs have reported to him that Knowledge
is the most
liberaring vehicle availabte. Bur onty;#i;;;;;

rã¡'t"

;;;ri;i;

that the unarmed World
Anotheç

iñat some Hindus took offense at Maharaj

iiiclaims to perfeation and gathered around the
íroli", onty tó be bayonetted away by an armed

World Peace CorPs.

Wh"rr'.r.

the American premies who have flocked
i'ame from political back- .

io fr¡uñâtui Jisince 1971

grounds, drug-using backgrounds, o.r, as many Bremles

íaid, baókgrolnds of "just drifting" most seem to
,.
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A new-¡mage Renn¡e Dav¡s announces the ',com¡ng of spr¡ngtime" on the last nis-ht of Mit-'
lenium. Photo by B-¡ll King,

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tr¡s víttâ and

"ttá"twas pressed to hold them back',
Þeace Corps

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havé beenburned out, victims of a vague weariness

Uðfott finding him. lndeed, v-ift'ually.all premies now

iharacteiize ifre¡r past lives-as consisting of little
;;;;ih";;earching for Maharaj Ji .without knowing
of affluence
ii. rrnoti of:them, tóo, are white childre.n
who in one way or another intensely felt the succesof
sive disillusionments of the sixties' In that series
itional
g
tra.d
from
n
i
phani
everyth
es,
ä"ptãtii n g epi
lifestyle
religions to governmónt to their parents'
began
iãäñ-tã¿ io bã discreditpd, and, as the seventies
the
altereven
disarray,
into
feli
movement
the
and
nuiìu"t they sought to construct were revealed as'
*"11, tot"'¿if¡trtt than originally thought'
generation"l Ren"We are an incredibly crippled
i
nie Davis told the press in Houston, and Ð'LM and
ciippled.":generation
that
that
Nãnãi"il i are weli aware
iiitreir cónstituency. The shows at the Astrodome
ult-iniotpotuted refôrences to the sixties;'culminating
ãÅ'éutui¿uv night when Blue Aquarius, the 56-premie
in'
Uun¿ f"ã by thãguru's brother Bhole Ji, launched
i" tàã1"í of hlts from that decade accompanied by
" show of atl the turmoil of that time. The
a slide
emotional grasþ of the program was tapgible.
It was a way of saying: look what you've been
through, all that pain, all that failed expelimentation,
all thit iearching after phantoms' But herd, we give
vou Certainty. "lf you're airborne,'l'[t4aharai Jisaid
ín Houston," and even if your engines quit, you can
sometimes land safely'" lt is a seductive pitch'
Maharai f i offers other things as well: a religion
that is noi discredited (although he will go out of his
way to deny that his institutions comprise a relìgion
at áll), and a noble social purpose (worldpeace).
Theró'is an alternative allure as well, for DLM is planning to construct a utopian community, probably

Photo bY B¡ll K¡n9.
Followers of Kl¡shna and Jesus denounce the Guru'
l

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i¡jhe U.S., which will "show how humans
somqwherq*ìNë'"
' ..1.' . .o'- .,are meant
:Ì' . '8.ût.primarily, there is Certainty' The more con-' .
siitant ieatures óf Mahara¡ ji's approach posit a mind/
spirit duality. lf left alone by the mind, the spirit
would find l\4aharai .l iand thus inner pcace.' lt is the
mind, though, that brings in doubts. Therefore, the
mind must be ignored and the'ego subiugated. There
is an assumption that spiritual minds simply do not
keep reaching or searching for somethin.g else' that
theie ¡s an Absolute Truth that cannot be found intellectually. So, you must distrust intcllectual'proand never doubt.
During an interview last year' Maharai Ji asked his
questioner if he would believe everything.he (Maharai
what
J'i) said. The questioner said he would believe
he thought was true, to which the Suru a¡lswercd:
"Then why bother to question me?. . .Only b)'tasting
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the fruit do we find out if the lemon is sour
and the
apple is sweet." ln another interview, wñrn

ãrt"¿ if
products of the intellect,.likernath
u,iO .t,.rùtry,
could be beneficial, he said ,,These have been'createO
oy man. I hese cannot be good."
And his followers unquõstioningly support this
t"'
al s m,^a r h o u gh. m a n áf i ñJÀ' u
r. u.r. y
i
*rj
; i lr^.]
:people.
tu
rnreltgent
Remarked one premie when
caught in a contradiction:
.,,Oh, tträt's not ltiairara¡
'ijî
J i's words. That was me. I was'thinf.i";;;
sa¡¿
'''
it as if he had commitre¿ a terriUle iin.
i

Mill.n¡ur

aged woman sits in a coffee sl.rop. Acioss ihe
laOle

Tell

a premie to do something anything and he will do
¡t. _They cope with stresiby conviñôing tt.r"rr"tu.,

to "flow with it.', They obediently do what they,re
asked by anyone in a position of authority within the
organization. And it is somewhat frightening.
F.ol all new religions are subversivõ. They"distract
.loyalties
from the statg and if they dontt dissãive or
stagnat€, they must eventually be adopted by that
state. New religions also excite passions, and when
those passions are under. the absolute control of one
man, one 1.S-year-old boy, the political significance
cannot be ignored. Not one of the over 5-0 premies
interviewed at the Dome agreed that Matraräi li would
be capable of an error in f uìgement. They *iít fol
low him,anywhere.

;,rTnro Episodes

is her I7-year-old daughrer, *r,ó *u, gãiÃ*iã
,turt
schoot at Antioch in 10 days until anãshrãm
was es_
tablished next door ro her Þhiladelpf.'l¡if.,om.."Sfrc
reoeived Knowledge soon afrerworå,
unJ Jr"i¿Jå'n.r

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TI hey found Certainty, and now they obey.

Arnng:ty?

,7'3 hadofficially
closea, and a middle-

to go to Antioch. The morher i, upr.i.
SËãï"orpanied her daughrer to Miilenium
ä"iy'Uãi""iã,rr"
thoughr rhe daughrer woul¿ neverio,irc
flärnä¡f l.f,
at one. The morher nervousty
r¡ n g"ii ä'irnuji' t'ur¿,
distribured ar rhe Dome ov o;uinîfiehi'niirjå".
says: "Guru Maharaj Jican give yo, "t you
can't get in college."
just
And,
outside the coffee shop in a motel parking lot was rhar tosr Chitean pfrmie,
the asphalt, re-living perhaps'the cÀílfi"-.""
"".iiS'äåiL,
ill"" ""
chants rhat had echoed like Germany
if,i."sh'ii"
v¡r! vvõrr rr
Astrodome only four hours befoie."/
"Surrender,,' went the lyrics to one of
orisinal
during rhe Miilenium, ,,save
:glcs.qtayqg
v"ii.iälr
some time.,t

Bill Sonn
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ournal.

is a

thêir lives back in shape. Like many other Cls, SucË"
lin had been radicalizéa Oy nis military experienÇe, 'i
but he planned to refrain from making hiq case for
a political one.
discharge
-öãftq".ntty, he presented himself to-thejruthor'
¡tieiif fort Carón, Öolorado in Julv 197.3' The

.By JACK COLHOUN and
DEE CHARLES KNIGHT

An ironic thing happenedas the American na:fion
moved down the road of the seemingly endless Water'
gate investigations and revelation.: the talk ahout amñãsty changid from whether war resislers sho.uld be.
granied unõonditional amnesty to wh&her Richard
Ñixon and his Administration should be granted am'Each day a9 the case against amnesty. for the
nesty.
latter grows, it iee'ms reasonable to believe that the
grounõworÉ for unconditional amnesty for all war
resisters is being built by leaps and bounds.
However, that new foundation of support f9r war
resisters has:vet to be tested in a serious way. fVhile
the national'dialog has been dominated by Watergate
and talk of impeaõhment or forcing Nixon's resig'
nation. U.S. authorities are prosecuting anlArmy
àesertér and a draft resister with the harsh zeal of..:

reporter for Denver's Straight Cleek

'

the middle 1960s.
The plight of Richard Dean Buòklin, an Army
AWOL,'and Gavin Naeve, a draft resister who took
out Cañadian citizenship in 1971; is a sharp reminder
that the need for unconditional amnesty is as pressing
a5 ever.

Although Dick Bucklin was fully aware of the adverse effects a bad discharge would have on his future,
his five years in exile in Sweden and Canada had taken
a serioui psychological toll on him and he opted for

Astrodome overv¡ew photo by BiU Kiné,

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the route'that so many AWOLs take irllorder to put

ÃiÃv, ttt"", promiíed him an Undesireable Discharge
¡n ¡ti of a äóurt-martial. At Fort Carson,th'ls was
r,ãútin. procedure for handling returned AWO-þ, but
for unknown reasons the Armt changed its mind and
f

oi¿éi"á him to face a court'martial which began dur. ine October. Since October 5th he has been placed
'inïaximum security because the Arml'lfelt that

the Vietnam Veterans in our stockade might physically harm Buçklin oÎ kill him'" .lf convicted þp facesr
a two to three year stockade sentence.
lf Fort Carson officials had been more frank, they
would have stated that Bucklin was not in maximum -ii,ãüiîtvî*ãut" árir,t"uts to his lifef¡om fellow Gls
in the stockade but beçause he held a irews conference
after thev brok-e their promise to cashier him out
with an Úildesireable Dischaige' ln his news conferencþ he explained why he felt he was iustified in going AWOL and why he felt all war resisters should
gei amnesty. Bucklin said, "l believe..l was correct
no begging
- in following my cqnscience. There willarebepositively
resisters
other
war
all
lind
' invotve¿.
right in demanding universal, unconditional amnesty'"
Hã explained that it was not America that he was
oooosed to. but its leaders and a military who were
the'
"liJadless giânts who not only don't mind killing
peoples offoreign lands, but also don't mind destroy-

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ing.th.eir own people in order to
further their own
goals."
. ln an age when a law and order Vice president
aoamantly opposed to any kind of amnesty
for war
resisters makes a deal in órder to ,uuáË ãïårol"t,
invesrigation of his shadier financíaL àã.ìi"ãr,''Oi"L

Bucklin's inregriry is reassuring. tn

of citizenship a war resister will face the spectre of
arrest and jail if he travels in.the United Siates.
After spending a week in rhe New Voit<
iiit, Cavin
was transferred to Burlington, Vermont, anä u, pr.r_
sure mounted from attention by Canadían mediå, hii
fanlilv^, and lawyers, bail was qúi"r,rv ,ããr"äà,
r¡rlt
rash, and rhen ro å,¡Snãtui.Ërãránreeing
19 119,9_09
$5,000 if he did nor appear for trjal. At ihis point, "
his.parents' home in gueUãcio recup!_"_l:,"în.¿.lo
erate
Trom the ordeal,.planning to return shortly to
New York to retríeve his suitcãse from ttrã aìrpórt
and visit his girlfriend.
. At this point the episode takes on a note of the
ridiculous. As Gavin a[tempted to re-enter the U.S.
at a Quebec-Vermont border point, U.S. immigration
officials refused to allow him acroís-b.rurr" ñe was.
an undesireable Canadian citizen! This after arreston enrry ju^sr rwo weeks eartier, un¿ mu[ing
lrig !iT
his sister sign a 95,000 bond saying he would come .

ul"tl",ïlL\.r*_

co,n?d! magazine, where Dick did volunteer
work
whrte ¡n Canada, Dick tells how the Army leaked
to
t.h:.po::ibitiry rhar rhey woutd drop
ilt^i",t:l::
l.up
rne charges against him if he would servé
the remain_
der of his tour of dury. He notes that tÀi;'i;;;."amnesty and that he will have no part of it.
,otrtonat
|
rhe
tmportant thing is-the long-range political
9 ne
and historical ramificationi of amnesiy, orîtjã"rt
being ctearty shown ro, have been .óiiéåt
,"v¡"ã ruo,
and what happens to me personuilV ¡, fiánlív'r?con¿_
ary. . . .l am innocent of wrong unâ I ¿.rnánå
iàtul
and u nco nd ir ionat am nesry roirnyi"irìn
Jiriorà I i
face criminat penátties toi ¿o¡ne *huiîu,
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back if they let him go. Finally, tñe officials gave
him a one-week pass to pick u[ îis tuggage.
Lowell Naeve told Canadian reporl"lùhat the
family decided to move to Canadâ after he talte¿ to
his son about the draft problem and the choices he
faced. "lt was one day during summer camìln Vermont," he said. ,,We hadn,t really talked much before
that. ... .
"f said, 'Lo9k, you,re almost lg and yog,re going
to be drafted. You may find yourself in'a mudãy "
shell-hble in Vietnam shooting at people. Somehow
we have got to make up our m¡n¿i wflat we are going
to do.' I told him the only choices I could see were
to go to jail the way I did, or go into some alternative
servtce, or go on the run and stay in hiding in the U.S.,

flght.

is i n, our un ity. and pot iticat vicrory
And the other side has moved to divide
us but I choose not to be a pawn usuinri
,yirìi.,,

,"
rs l^O-yij,J.lgrh
tn numbers.

Another dramatic encounter recently between

U.S. authorities and a draft resister whó is now a
Canadian citizen, further emphasized the need for
1m.nesty. Gavin Naeve, who immigrated to Canada
in 1965 wirh his family while sr¡ll 1 7 years of age,
was seized last September 23rd at New york's Kennedy Aírport while on what he thought was a normal "stop-over" from Bermuda to Cãnada.
Naeve described ín detail the circumstances of his
arrest: "l was still on the plane in Kennedy when
they called my full name out on the loudspeaker,
asking me to see the head stewardess. The plane was
half unloaded as I walked down the aisie toiãrd her.
I saw two guys standing beside her and it was then I

realìzed they were probably the FBl... . They stood
in the entrance of the plane and then one of tirem
grabbed hold of my arm, took me off the plane
and

to a waiting room."

.

Naeve was whisked away to the West Street
Jail
ìn Manhartan, rhe same;aif his father hiJ6ã"n tut"n
to 33 years ago in 1940 when he refused to be drafted.
Lowe]l Naeve, an artist, served four years.and three
months in seven U.S. prisons after he was arrested in
I 940 as a conscientious objector.
Gavin was held in iail for five days before anyone
,knew.where
he was, and then it was only because
the jail authorities had sent three packafes containing
his personal belongings to his sister in Vãrmont, that
she found out. She immcdiately contacted the'jail
to find out what had happened, and was informed
that bail had been set at g50,000.
Jim Peck of the War Resisters League, who was
Lowell Naeve's lail mate during Worlã Wãr ll, had
voluntccrcd to raise the ba.il móney. Commenting on
Gavin's arrest, Peck said, ,,lt was sîanããrá óiäðeOure.
They weren't gunning for Gavin because hii father
was a conscientious objector in World War ll or because. his I 7-ye;rr.olcl trrother, Branclon, hangs around
the War Resisters League office in Ncw yorÈ.,'

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Peck saicl that Gavin was ,,busted. . .because his
name w¡s in thc [tig black book of want-ecl people
that is kcpt al all tJ.S. irnrtrigration points.,; This is
lhe isst.¡c. As lolrg .¡r.tlrr) r is.no .ilnn,,siy, rL,g,urJl(rss

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or move to Canada."

The senior Naeve said that he no longer believes
is useful for a war resister to go to
iaii¡f he. cin-avoid it. He said that the U.S. government. in waeins
a war on Vietnam, is also ,,waging a war oi it, yoünfr',

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While Gavin Naeve is free for the present, and no
trial date has been set, urgent action is needód to
help Dick Btcklin, who remains in solitary confine_
ment in the Fort Carson stockade. please get out
pen and. paper right now and send a note dãmanding
that he be freed with an honorable discharge, to thJ
Commander, Fort Carson, Colorado g091 3*: iend a
copy, and a checK (if possible) to the Richard Buckj
lin.Defense Committee, c/o the Rocky Mountain
Military Project, 1460 pennsylvania Slreet, Number 3,
IJenver, Colorado 80203.

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Colorado Represeirtative pat Shroeder and New

York Representative Bella Abzug have both tailen interest in the case and have directèd inquiries to the
Department of the Army about Dick. Send each of

t!:.1 q note urging them to keep up the pressure until Dick is out of the stockade and äut of the service.

Do it now; there is no time to lose.
For general information on, or involvement in the
growing amnesty campaign, contact the National
Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty
ñ.V.
ffçy.unl, 339 Lafayette Srreet, ñé*
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/ock Colhoun ond Dee Charles Knight ore cò-editors
of Amex-Cañada magazine, ',publkhed by Americans
exiled in Cunodo".

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FARMWOR KER BOYCOTT GOES NATIONWI DE

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ganítersare working in Springfield,
The Farmworker boycott agaiÀrt the
Teamster-Grower consortium is pick- Þortland, Provide_nce, New Haven and
ing-up steam all around the country. Hartford, mannin-g g.lo.se to 100 picket
St'udóntS, bishops, consumeîi'and even lines eveiy weeçeñd. Connecticut is
Teamstef's âre participating in Farm- focusing on Finãst and all major cities
worker picketìines, boycõtting scab aiãiÃuo"tve¿. ln Boston, all maior
products'and putting piessure on super- chains except A&P-whích has'been
market chains'and sñopkeepers to re- harassing pilket lines-have come to
move the boycott items from their
tãims, tñough the supermarkets are
shelves.
attempting ío get a c'ourt injunction
ln recent weeks, the UFW has won ã b; pic"ketiñS. ln Scarsdále; Ñ.V:,
supportfrom the National Confer- Mary Burnier wãsarrested for pickei-

p¡c*ei¡ ng in Cleveland. Photo by seth Foldy

scab wine and boycotters are now going after the taverns. Teamsters in

Madison, which has become the most
active and militant local in the state,

have formed Teamsters for Democracy,afLer lnternational Teamsler ' ' .
I'
leaders placed the local uni.qn in. . .
trusteeship. Local 695 has ignored í
Nixon guidelines, sided with radical "
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causes and supported-the

anli-Yr

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enceofCatholicBishops,whichvoted ingálocal supermarketandshèin- Nixonandtheirsupportof agri- ..:'.
businessispartofthatalliance. ',.i
unanimouslytosuppoittheboycott, -. t.ädttosuefor.falsearrest. ,
ln the South, Atlanta is focusing
the City Council oi Urbana, lll., the
Univer:sity of lllinois in Chicago, Wayne.,..., ln the Midwest, Çleveland-bgy- *on Colonial Markets and won a partial victory when Alterman.Foods , '
c9tters are workinþ on the Fishe;
State in Óetroit, and also Cleveland "

in
But the success of the boycott

.- 9!9ar.ed Gallo winc from its shelvcs.
Thç þoycott is also active in Elorida
'.' 'ariðT'cxas,.where
i
thcre has bccn,
wpeky
cvcr
get
picketing
against
Safeway
. good su pport frorn the'Ú AW'arid ãre
rests with the day to day efforts to
end.
non-UFW produce off supermarket leaflettiir! at local faòtories. ln Coln the West, Denver is hitting Safal'..
lumbus, ðig Brur, the largest åfruìn in
shelves and to convince shoppers to,
join the boycott. "Reason and logic the city, agreed to stop cãrrying letway with 200 picketcrs bach wcekãon't work'with the chain stores," tuce aná giapes. ln Dayton'and Cin- end and has had success with threc, "
th"e tärget is the't-iberai'cñiin chains repfesenting fiftcen stores.'
UFW-Vice President Dolores Huérta r;cinatti,
'and'boycotteriare
working on hotels, San Diego is going aftcr scab winc and
told a New York rally. "We need lots
of picket lines to hurt them econom-. restaurants and sc[ools. Forty A&P Safeway, while thc San Francisco arca
'- storesare being piðtete¿ in Míchigan is busy on all frcnts with abòut 30
icaily."
pickeilinesaroundtheBaiArea. ln
Theîollowingisareportofboycott andarallyatt"hèÛniversityinLaîsing
- Oregon,
the State AFL-CIO has cnactivity from-El Molcriado, the Farm- resulted in the closing down of the
dorsed the boycott and thc.Woodworkei newspaper (LaPaz PO Box 62, local A&P with over 300 pick.tt on
Keene,CA 93531,'bulkordersof 50 theline. Chicagoboycotiersare cutter'sUnionhassentoutboycott
availaóle for g5 prôpaid, specify Span- focusing on JeÑel Stóres, the largest material to all its locals. ln Seatlle,
picketing at Safeway turncd 670.
chain in the city, and hitiine ovei 40
ish or English):
shoppers away one wcckcnd, and
An estr.máted 20%of the lettuce with picket linóíeach weekõnd. ln
Tacoma, too, has an activc anti-Saleand grape market in New England has Milwaukee and Madison, almost all
way campaign.
¡een cut off and fulltime boycott or- the liquor stores have béen cleaned of
-Marty Jezer
St¿te and Case Western Reserve

Cleveland.

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movement and.the UFW. The Team- '
stersare the only union to-support ...'

Ëazio'chain, as weii as A&P, as are

-Akron. Yoúnsstown and Canton;r.:'
whereihe FaimwofkeiËar€ getti;g '

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PHOTOGRAPHS OF MY
FATHER
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Knopf,1973

259 pp., $6.95 hardcover

ff 'å*ïri-.'.$itf

. an important secto
Rights st¡uggle of I

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äutr*'[{:ftîåï[:îitr

mysterious circumt
,Spike was a homos
The author is Dr. spike's son, now
25. a creative writer
who has since his earty y.outtr îJ"iiü Í"ld"i¡.n
againsr
mainstream America, with one irp"it""ä"ception:
he
is heterosexual.

tu

own life, about the difficult experienieiãï growing
up in
the 1960s. He wrires.abour rhe emprinái oî pr"p;.fii
and college life, about the sexual gir., å hàtrrosexual
pluvt, abgu!.no! and. booze, ãbort h is parrici parion
Iu.!,g
tn the tamous Colümbia University strike of 196b,';;d
,

for me, even though I have a lo[ in common

y'L fa{ Snike and.migtr.ev-en,be a friend of his (ii i.tn.w
htm) to get my mind off his father. Besides,
the fòcal

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point of this work is the death of the Rev. ór. Robert
Spike. The final sentence, in the,book is: ,,father, t'áo'
not understand your death,'n""'

Shriver was. using this as a kind of blackPaul Spike probably doesn't know is that
Shriver is well known i n the gay comm unity as a homophobe, fhat the Peace Corps under Shriver had a strict antigay policy, and that some gay liberationists refused to.vote
for McGovern last year precisely because of Shriver's presence on the ticket.
ln an ageéf ' 'political enemibs" iists and rampant violence (official and unoffi cial), wño coúld deny that a man
like Robert Spike could be the yictim of a political assassination by the C.l.A., right-wi ng vigilantes, or hired assassins. But should we love Dr. S pike less if he was killed be-

mail. What

This book ís really a story of both men. paul
Spike
wrires.wirh grear love a.nd respect
farher and his
father's work. The a.ujlror.also *ritãi
"6;;;;i,
rnoiingty abour his

so on.
. lt is hard

sexuality),

\

caúseÏe had b4d luck with someonehe picked up on the , ,
street? Wh?t-if.Dr. Spike was in fact kilied when'a hidden
pert of his soul was enjoying the sexy thrill of an autumR
night, when that thrill was fatally interrupted by the bloody
violence of a sexually repressed society?
Dr. Spike himself could ,,understand" his murder equally
well, whether it was political assassination or sexual psyctro'-pathy, as his son òhows us that old-fashioned
church'púritanism was as much a target of his father's mind as white

Dr. Spike was found. bludgeoned to death in a guest
racism.
in.9olum.bus, Ohio, on Oct. 17,1966. To piac_
fgoll
To understand his father,s death, at least, paul Spike has
tically all who knew him, Dr. Spike was a happily married
to
understand the sweeping presence of sexúal refression
and devout minister, so it came as sorneth¡ng of á snoct
in America. He needs to uñáerstand what motivates a
when the Columbus police announced that ä n¡s room
young gay Christian who feels the call of his church (for
they found. "p_ornogiaphic magazinesii anJ a list of ,,sus_
such wa.s his f1t-her) to choose the straight life of the'min- . '
pect" bars in Columbus, ln other words, the cops projected
istry,,wife.and
the notion that this was jusî another queer murder. But
Iamily, and he needs to understand the pain
and. th-e price of such closetry.
just
Snjkg
was
not
another queer, änd the police verQr.
. . Unfortunately, instead of trying to understand these :
s¡on ot the murder made.the national news. To this.day,
Spike foolishly probès the ,,cause,' of his
lntngs,:young
the murder remains unsolved.
i!
ratner's homosexuality, reminding us repeatedly of how
Robert Sp.ike was deprived of fatñerly lóve in his child_
- Paul Spike is willing ro accept rhe possibility that his
father was murdered by a sexual pickiû0. But he outs
nood. . thts psychoanalytical drivel, which carrics over inforrh some convincing evidence rbr an älteinltiu.iñããrv_
tg P?u.l Spike's p¡esumed self-awaréness, is nãt f,.tp¡rt
that this was a political assassination, and,the homosexúal
all.,lt
seemstiùr of place.in.thç.writingí of a would-be
"i i
angle was used to discredit a civil rights leader and at the
rebel,
same time cover up the truth aboutlhe murder.
' 'll' The autlîor of this book has presumably
writtcn u *,iit
jacket of the book describes Dr. Spike as
..
Th" dust
of great.love, but clearly he does noi låu, í¡,. purt of f,¡i '1r..
"perhaps the most important white ma¡¡ among the leader_
father that is homosexual. ln the u*V noof.iritten to
ship of the black civil rights movement during-the early
eulogize his farher, paul Spike comes âcros, ui iÌãi_rrat.r.
sixties," and Paul Spike provides enough biographical áata
.
His prep school teachers include one Mr. Fendler: ï,Mr. ' ' "
to su_pport this view. At the time of hls dedr-h, br. Spike
Fendler is an obn-oxious little man. Hè hangs-around
the
was fighting hard to save the Child Developlnent Group of
wrestlers and most everyone agrees he is a qîeer.,, paul
Mississippi. The villa.in in_that episode wui n. Sargent
;Spike doesn't tell us whether tlhe wrestlers weìe
obnoxious9l,r_luqr, then head of the Office of Ecoriirmio Opportunity
, or not. And then there's Mr. Keller,
a disciplinariän who
(OEO), which wanred to rerminare tfr. Vf isiìrr¡ppi pro¡e"i.
speaks "in an effeminate voice.,, Wã are not told whether
Dr. Spike told his son that Sargent Shriver was',,bne oî the
there are.any disciplinarians at school who speak in a mas_
nastiest men I have ever met.,' He added that Shriver
culine voice; perhaps there were none. And finally, there
,,The
threatened_him, saying
F.B. l. knows about you,
is Ted, the minister who,.according to paul Spike's'account,
Reverend Spike!'.'
mLge.a disagreeable drunken play îor our author and
. TÌe implicatibn young Spike drew from this was that
spilled the beans about tris fathei. He is made our to be
the F.B.l. knew about his farher's homosexualiry (;;bi_
the worst person in the whole book. l,don,t know any.

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thing about Ted. and
he was drunk, obnoxious
and indiscreet, but oer Tavbg

watchi;;;he'Ä;;'d;'[To'.f

Kafy's.Piece", raised behind her pratform.
when Redford-

#ii¿i'Ji',.*.ïln.l*r,

as Hubbett,.rhe super jock_relts
t
she woutdn,r have losi the

f"ti;k;

ctosgf case, taughing
i;; Ëåîiirll, ,, r,"
having his son-tove
"r t'í,f fàï,ì,t
I'dl,
ln.{
*u, nor.
Paut Spike, can,r vou rov. your
iati'.;';;h;;.rosexuat

9f X

"tli
he was? And whú do you É;;;
i;;;;,i;äi;*"
sexuality with suóh

herero_

overoeanng emphasis?

These.anri-say pur_dow", ;ä;i;;;;b;
hatf so bad_l
coutd catt ir ,,honesr writing,, iiih;i
Ji;;:T;ave

furiaring counrer-ooint.

he;;íËîiå'iride

an in_

about
Wñçn
his farher's associárion wil.,
lämes'ijåiãïìi,'aTr.n cinrberg, and rhe bohemian-s h;
Judson
Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, paul
Spike fails to
rhe reader, or himsetf,
ur" qr"rrr,

¿;;;;äiär,"?irl.
ih;;ñ"¿'öpi!

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On: of paul Spike,s few insights into
homophobia comes
yl_._".1.t. norices angrity that rhä ¿h;;; är"iåälirr,r"nt,
once rhe homosexual ang.le.is ¡ntro¿r.rà
murder, seems to diminiíh iß ,.;prc;;;; uïìiä t¡,.,.,, of tn,
r.,l"i"in"r. young
Spike expresses his ourrage, but ii
;;r;;;Å;itow
Jv Jrrcr
given
the rest of the b'ook.
,

Paul,Spike needs a good dose of gay
liberation; then
_
maybe he can begin ro u,nderstand
hi; f";h;;eath, and
more imporranr, he can ree¡n to láv;
r¡rJ
hiriåi'r.,Ëi¡"
raL¡¡ç¡
r,i,

full reality.

l

meantime, I want to say thank you
to paul
^ .ln tlr.
for_presenring us.this portrâil;i
Spike
;uiäy
brorher,
the Rev.

Dr. Roberr Snik¡, who Uri¡*.ã1,å-íought
for
freedom and. jusrice and.Christian ¡¿"u1,
ar'1.li!äw rhem.
It is a portrait well worth reading. fr", rt ¡iõà rûait
and

ll:

ctoserry,,

it

is ctear

toïe

tlral ä.orlspir, *rrc

1::lll:roday' he wourd armost
arve
certainry be one of 'those few
mi n isters i nside the protestant. estuO
f isf, meiiipeaking out
courageously in favor of a Chrjstian role in
the-gay liõer_
ation movemenr, firmly rejecring tf,. f.,"riá"äãrjs
nor¡on
rnar nomosexuals do not live w¡th the grace
of God.
Allen Young is a graduate-g.f
Cotumbio
and is active in Gây Liberation.

I went to

see The Wav We Were for two
cause Roberr Redforá rurns me
on; ånJ

o
o

reasons: first, be-

;;;;,

spokesw";;;;;;;;ce

and aic
to Loyatisr Spain. A hardcore ra¿icat,
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volves aro^und. hér potirics, making
;";;i;ensional
woman. She is a dvnamile speakãr, unã
uloné'point, at an
rally, she.comes ciose to tiansiorming
llli_lonrlliprion
the
entire audie.nce, which has been largely
ió"ifrr¡r, to antiwarriors. She loses theír sympathv ¡,
tfrï""å,ïowever,
when she gers hysrerical ut ,.äinÁ
p.uce
á

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robor whose abiliries did not extend
ãiJghi"g or dancing
ulvthj ns,, r-egu tar,' q;"ttù;:'Ää'
:lj:1leand obiecr of cruet jokd
rr.,. became rhe
subjecr
rha; r;;eàj üorn *irc
cracks about Russia to reterences
to her unattractiveness.
Through rhe various miracles ãi moî.inïiu¡r-making,
Suly uli Hubbeil fal in
overrook
Hubbell's lack of comm¡tment, and
he jrrt Irt, f,ãi-rui""^
about rhe Stare of rne WortJ riiiÀãrijlliËl,i"i.
They mud_,
dle through an affair. spending wonderful
nigñïs in bed,
and disasrrous eveniiss,wirh Érú#lt
;ilil';iå snoory
fríends. lr is at rhe eã.rman.påãärili
rf,"i r"rv,,
strength and poignancy are most ezident.
Hei poritics and
made it impoisibte fo, ¡,", io lulsïät'crude
To_1l¡tv
¡okes
about
war, starvation. and Roosevelt,, J.åiflfuno
friends rhoughr of hei as ,"r.ty ,om"oiË;;ä;;;Hubbell,s

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sao, ror
5atv. had tosr her one rrue roí" un¿ Hrtúåìr *"r unabre ro
fìnd happiness

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land, co_unting the cloud-s."nA ,ír"i,

ã;i;;;äili
in potírics. She is now rurr¡.J iã-'olil;'i.

invotved
ä;É"", and no

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thrgugh.^

by violence and deceit.
No chapter in American history is.more
s{¡ameful than
the rreatmenr meted our to rhe firrt i"f,.L"iü"lJof
There is no wav we can .o,np"nr"t"-ìñä-inä¡.n,th¡, lrnd.
for rhe
betrayal imposid on them- Aut we ."n,larni
from them,

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pomtcs where her somberness *iJl g.o
unchallenged and her
anger unchecked. As tong.as radicis
sóo"
needs first, without consiãeration of tîe f.elines
and oriengf"society in general, we will O. ,u.riiiüng our com_
!!j1s
mtrmenl tor our egos, and I think our dreams
mu"st lead ui
farther than
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Ygrdy schwartz is.pn the Executive Commitià'à
laor Resisters League, ond she hr; grä';';;;;"ofof tne
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