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Moy 29,'1975

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PEACE &, FREEDOM THRU NONVIOLENT ACTION

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Do we sit on our intellectual, lrourgeois
cloutls and condeinà a methqd of resistänce
chosen by anothsr people? \ryhât.alternative
ditl thc Vietnamese have? In the beginning
the NLIr. u'sed nonyiolence that raised the
hair on the nccks of Diem and his his den
of thicvcs. Do we maintain our elite stance
and denounco them because they elected to

I would likc to stato my vicws on thc end of
'.. thc
Victnam war, not only in rcsponse to
tho.

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writçrs f WlN, 5/l/751, but also to

Lazar lLcttcrs, a/15/751

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I agrcc with Jin l;orest, Tom Cornell

The victory of the PRG came not so

and Staughton Lynd about thc PRG victory, and I fìnd it dcplorablc that pcople
cclcbrato it without romembering the great
loss of lifb infìictcd to achieve it. Ed Lazar
was right to qucstion thc wisdom of a paci'
list magazinc using thc.term, "liberation" tô
tlcscribc military campàigns. Hówever, I can'
not conclude that what the PRG did was as
horriblc as thc atrocitics of our govemment
in Cambodia anrl Vietnam;
I ani a pacilìst an thc killing of anyone, particularly innocent
pcoplc; no war is just. Nor am I ignoring
thc ambiguity of thc situàtion. I want the
thirrl tbrcc rccognized, not thrown in jail.
But I cannot fcel as Lazar does that the
peace movement should protest the violation of the treaty by the PRG. Granted,
neithe¡ side followcd the agreements to the
lctter although the best thing would have
been for both sides to follow it so at least
the killing couid bc rcduced.
Yet thc Vietnamese have been victims
of outsidc colonialism for decades, and of
institutionalized violence perpetuated by
'the Unitcd Statcs. How can we turn our
backs on their struggle for what most
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peoples of the wo¡ld want (freedom.from
outside influence) just because.of the ir-.
¡ationâl violence used as a response. to the
genocide of t\c Vietnamese peoplc by
Western invaders? Is it so wrong for them
to celebtate the expulsion of the Americans? Is it a negation of pacifism to have
compassion for people who ùe finally
throwing off the burden of Wcstern rule?
Can this be done uiithout applauding
violence, or loving the PRG? I believe so.

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Instead of singling out one individual, I
w.ould like to reply to the letters f¡om
pacifists condemning the PRG for using
military violencr to erase the Thieu regime
and finally ejecting imperialist America

from Vietnam,

dcfcnd themselves with arms? They werq
after all fighting for their homes and families.
The PRG never has employed a policy of
sea¡ðh and destroy; never have they satuta'
tion bombed or shelled cities as a method of
wanton dcstruction. A rural guerrilla army
is not built on terror but cooperation.
much f¡6m military force. Thieu's govemment collapsed because there was no sustgnance, no popular suppgrt fó¡ no other
reasgn. Córruption and"terror spelled his
end.
Many years ago the war would.have been
ovér had not the'United States continued.
intcrfe¡ence. Our nonviolent resistence here
in the monster helped extricate the military
machine.
'Vietnam has won, we helped them,
consequently we won for ourselves. So lefs
quit looking down our a¡istoc¡atic, educâted noses and get on with business. The
war is over, for that we should truly celebrate. At least I will extend hearty greetings of solidarity to the PRG and wish them

much success in rebuilding a nation from
chaos ¿nd ruin.
-STEPHEN T. WILLINGHAM
Berryville, Va.

with the
usual combination of reierent humility
(there they are, giving voice to outrage,
trying to counteract by communicating
I read the May 8th ispue of WIN

positive alternatives) and resentment (here's

yet another non-poem by Daniel Berrigan,
who reads of the death of 100 orphans in a
plane crash"and swiftly hammers.out a statê
ment: nobody will ever be able to accuse
him of tttmlll,ghis face away); It would
seem that silence is a crime, and blather
of any sort proof that one has labored in
the vineyards of moral certainty.
In the same issue is an articlc lambasting
those chauvinistic pigrnothers who sought to

their "deserved" guilt by adopting
Vietnamese orphanò (i.e., ripping off the
scant remaining blossoms of that blighted
country and bringing them up as culturally
assauge

deprived malignant Americans). It may have
taken Michele Cla¡k a few days to give birth
to her angry articlè; the adoptive parents
have taken on, by taking in one orphan, a
minimum of.16 years and $20,000 worth of
child-rearing. Many of them werd already ex.s

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perienced in parenting and knew damned
well what'they were in for.

It's that kind of all-repudiating attitude
that depresses my faith in radical, left, & alternative ideologies; a refusal to recognize
that while one may scorn anotherls politics

or mental capacities, the assumption of
responsibility for one young life is not
lightly undertaken.
Michele Clark cites our own orphanageg
crammed with unwanted childrqn, complains that no one is lining up outside of
phone booths to beg for these kids. Then
she goes after the "extremely naive and unintrospective people" who have chosen to
adopt Vietnameæ children. How about the
rest of us who have chosen to adopt no one
at all? Has Ms. Clark adopted one of thosg
unwanted Americans languishing in our own

sge the

nonviolent community continue

improrrement, education, and dissemination
oaits of that strüggle, as are
stopping rape ànd equalizing incomes in-this-

*"'itt"tïuti

COúNITV. '

-'NORAH RENKEN

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Portland, Ore.

I have several comments on your isue of

at alL People certainly do have

ÍWIN. 5/221751-This piece of beautiful
aô"p wúting has touched on so many
of the iisues that concern me most. It ,
moves from place to place in my own life,

iüutin"ting, .larifying, honingÎn

and open-

New York,

rouse myself from a sullen bourgeois silence to suggest that she

well-meaning

citizens. -LYNNE ROBBINS

Wilton, Conn.

In response to Jeanette Chase's letter in the
May I issue: I agree with so much of her
letter! True, abo¡tion is not a cure-all; the
problem lies in society but falls mainly on
the women. True, abortion needs to be kept
legal in a society where better options mayr
be nonexistent for many.
There is oné point I disagree on. Whát is

all the hue and cry about taxpayers paying
for abortion? I assume yotr (and Tim Fouts
as well) mean by this the abortions that
póor women manage to obtain through
public hospitals, Planned Parenthood, and
Welfare. What I ask is this: if ypu and I wo¡k
for a bois and we earn $2.50 an hour each

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May 15 which'is represented as dealing with
Ana¡chisn.
First.of all, it is plain to me that Muray
Rosenblith, at least, who introduced the
isue. felt rather guilty about its contents'
since ne went to iome pâins to speak of
now WfN woulð avoid the "trap" of'saying,
"this is Anarchi3m." Unfortunately for
WIN's intention, the best way to avoid such
a "trapl'would have been to ¡iresent ma'
terial on Anarchisrr itself instead of the
'
inelange of trendy'sounding, irrelevant

direct her righteous indignation toward less

more people will be

ins uo. Thank You, WIN. Thank You,
Bñú;a
-ANDREA DWORKIN

tQ Fear ourselves".

änO

If not, I

as

Whatevet disagreements I may have with
the IWW or oiher syndicalists, or with
Borsodi's centralized World Govemment
trio. I do not object at all to your having
orôônæ¿ these people's views or descripiions'of their activities. What I do object to
is your presenting them in such a way that'
thó reader is led to betieve all this is Ana¡chisi. Anarchisn is a distinct thing; it is

Thank you for printing Barbara Dsmings..

"1o r"ot lane Álpert ii

so,.my apologies; she knows whereqf

she speaks.

with it as,long

atträcted to it as a result. But the IWW hap'
oens to actually be explipitly not andrch¡st,
if you don't believe me, write to the
-d
organiiation's headquartcrs in Chicago-and
asñ straieht out: "ls the I\UW an Anarchist
union?"1ike WIN itself, the IlilW tries to
be'affthings to all radicals, ând in my
opinion it is the worry for it.
Please do not mistake mY meanrng:

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orphanages?

If

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with the more ðifficqlt,'long term task of
forming a society where abortion is not
considãred necessary by any. Birth control

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and he earns $20,000 a year and his wiþ
buys an abortion from a private dottoriare
not you and I paying fo¡ their abortion?
Mo¡e and more I realize how interconnected we all are econgmically. This
realization has come partly through doing
income sharing in a living group for 2lz
years. I really don't believe that resisting
taxss that empower poor wonien to make
decisions about childbearing is ajust thing
to do. (Besides, one of those poor women
could be me some time.) It is easier to force
poor wornen to have children than to force

articles the issue contained
You pre$ent Borsodi within the context
of your'-'Anarchisn" iszue: Yet, Borsodi
oroooses a wo¡ld authority, a govemment,
äomplete with flags, uniforms, and militarisis. Borsodi isn't even a consistent de'
'centralist' le't alone an Anarchi'st!
Then You talk about the IWW. The IWW
is consistent inpne thing anyway: it never

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iftr tef¡.f tnat authoritar!1¡ism

and that therefô¡e we need no govemments

a right towittt this just as much as they like'
butihey æûainly do nothalrq the right to

Aisagte"

falsely claim that proposers'ofworld govemmãnt repreænf Analchisn' or that the
IWW is Anarchist, when that isdt true'
_FREDWOODWORTH
Tucson, Az'

ATTENTION SUSSEX & IIVARREN

COUNTY (NI) READERS!
The publishers of .that fine newspaper,
the Susæx SPectator, have offer-ed a
free two Yeai subscr¡Ption (a whoP
ping $8 value) to anyone who coniriu"uids $5 oi more to the WIN fund
raisins drive! What an excellent way

to suöport feisty WIN wllile.keeping up
withïhe home town news! (You musf
indicate with youi contr¡but¡on that
you want to gät in on this exciting of'

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discouragps ballyhoo about itself.

body wants to call

it

If

some-

fer.)

anarchistic, that's just

A PROMISE OF A REPORT

is harmful,

4. The Continuing Agony of Northern
lreland I Cloudlo Drelfus

10. From a Kibbutz on the lsraeli'
Lbeanon Border I Poula RoYman
12. Prison Letters
Inside the'DC lail I M¡tch

- f¡t

Snyder-

Ã-iiuJContentrâtion CímP I Eddte

Sanchez

15. The MaYaguez Affair

16. Premonitions of Cryst¿l Nighf

Judith Molìna
17. Changes

20. Reviews
Cover: Photo bY Richard Kalvar
STAFF
Marv MaYo'
Thomases
.
MuriaY Rosenblith Martha

THE READERS

to.
if.rì ã*pr.rsions ofinthus¡asm that havecome ¡n. Wa want
*.ri"åãü'ìuu:iõiiitñf iligé contr¡butors and those who

UNINDICTED
CO.CONSPIRATORS

rhank all of you-the

this cruc¡al moment'
ú.rî abte to rónïtiUrtu-fot yóur.help during
way. foi.you to heþ would be
pteázurab.te
"ãi
that;;;-t'rrely
remember
And

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rich women to have children. It is also
to force them into unwanted abortions and sterilizations or whatever wealthier taxpayers decide should be their lot at
the time.
Please let's not swallow the capitalist lie
in ou¡ haste to be impeccably nonviolent
with "ourl'money. Instead I would like to

to come ro rhe wine
W¡N for details.)

easier

¡ji;;

;î Hiltt fòt

on May 31st. (See page 22 or call

Don,tlookforacopyofWlNinyourmailboxnextweek.We'retaking.
put off while we're
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on June s. ln'
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wine tasting

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14. A Letter to Paul Goodman from an
Alternative School in Milwaukee

Chuck Fager
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Maris Cakars Susan Cakals¡'
Rosen
Fred
Pines'
Susan

Asvoucanseebytheprogressthatthesubmar¡neismaking,theresponseto
lñ r.ct, during rhe nine.years of wlN
Ïöäi'f;h.tph;;ñË;i""äri¡".
more
nüJ'àão"uts we hãve n.urr tr"¿ as good a response as this. Perhaps.even

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all these men walking about with loaded g-uns-pointed
at peoole-at me! Oh yes, there were soldiers here five
u"årr äso. But lesus, it was nothing like this."
prañk sucks'in his breath. "l've been stopped on
the street and lined up against'the wall,'rh.e says, "lt's
iii"fri.ni"*. ath vtt, wtrðn ttrey click the¡r.5äfety'locks' i'
Yo"u think]'wtrat ¡f ã bomb goBs off somewhere? The
.damned Brit could get nervõus.and pull the (rigger."
, Quickly, he shruls off the irhage. "You ¡99 {íis' .
øace,;' h; iays, poiñting to a sheä'of a buildin!.' 'i'''
'iT'wár once a fish and chips shop. But the place got'
bombed so many times and so many people goÈ them:
sevles killed thai we began to call ¡t, 'The Last Supper.'
t
Ya, see, Belfast people have not lost their sense

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Agony of
Northern'
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Èrank looks long at "The Last Supper." Quite suddenty, his face changes. "Whèn I m-et yo.u in'69," he
.explodes; "l was all for civil rights.-l believed.i! pos
sible to ácn¡eve equal rights for,Catholics within the
framework of Norfhern lreland. Now, I believe the
Brits are onlv concerned with protecting their capitalistið interéstihere and so, I don't want to reform the
svstem. . .l want to destroy it! That's*ryhy, I give my
tätal support to the Provisional 1R,4.'They are the

only

on'es

with their prioiities

right."

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"But so many of your old'friends from civil riglits
became Ofücials. . ."
' "They are cowards. You can't get socialism until
you have a country first. All they doistolk, talk, tolk
ånd orsanize their damned.tenant's committees.

There'ionlÍ one solution: Brits.Out First!"

Heartbreäking that conversation was' Not that I
wui i"ttu¡n Fran-Í< was wrong; it was iust his uncompromising bitterness that frightened. I had come to
'Belfast
tõ see people I'd loved and felt closély con'
nected to, people who happened to be leaders in the
Northern lrish civil rights moverhent: to see.how
they'd survived five yéars of warfare, to see if the-y'd
suriived at all. I donit knowwhat I expected to
but Frank reminded me of a reiative of mine whord
been tortured by the Gestapo and who's never þeon
quite the same since. Anyonp less naive could have
tôld me that is a crippling affect to living under siege.
No matter what the World War ll noyels say, warfare
aout r'ot ennoble; it kills the spirit of even thosE who

Photo by Rlchard Kalvar

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Drizzly Belfast,"l974. Frank Gogarty, the former
Chairman of the Northern lreland Civil Rights Association and I were taking a walking tour five years ago, when
the barricades firbt went up in Belfast. Frank and his
family were my hosts as I covered the birth of Ulster's

cuirent "Troubles."
Thinking back to September, 1969-when last
Frank and I walked these streets-the thing I remember
most about him was the incredible, almost unnatural

charity, he reserved for the ordinary Ulster Protestant.
One night, after agang of Protestant thugs ("Do¡'t
call them Protestants, Claudia. Thier Paisleyites.''- We
don't call people by their religion here," Gogarty admonished) battered his head fo such a pul'p that part
of his ear fell off, he told me this: "The Protestant
people, they are just like us. They live as poorly as
Catñotics. Together, we will build something new."
I don't know where exactly F-rank's Christian

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charíty metainorphisized into natíonalist bitterness,
Followers of the Rev, lan Paisley, a fundamentallst preacher'
graduatå of Bob Jones Chrlstlan College ln Texas and now a
Member of Parllament' He has a blg follow¡ng among non'
CathollcE

Ctoudia Dreifus is o iournalist and a ferVinist, author
of Woman's Fate, Bontam, and has wrìtten for t-he
Progressive, fåe Ñation, Family Circle, Rolling Stone
and McCalls.
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but I 'suspect it happened one night in October,1972,,
when a gãng of Paisleyite (Protestant?) neighbors
came with sticks, guns and petrol bombs and blew-up
his elegant home. Until then, Frank lived on one of
the most expensive blocks in Belfast, and it was he,
who fought his rich Protestant neighbors to permit a
housing project for working-class Protestants just up
itre roa¿. nnO ít was.from-that-prg¡ect the marauders
öå-nie-; örsiäÈ him with cries of "Eeath to the Fenian
bastard."
Flashback to 1969: I remember Frank building
bunkers, in the old house. "When this pláce is attacked,"
he explained, "¡ìerhaps some of the wee children can
hide here and suryive."
fnot" Uuntcersdid save iives that night'
lf it wasn't the destruction of his home that
wrecked Gogarty's charity, then it was a dozen other
incidents; the constant attempts on his life; the burnings of his two automobiles; the disintegration of his
dental surgery practíce by a Protestant boycott; the
six month-iaii ientence that came because. of his civil
rights work; the frequent Briti$h Army raids.on his
hõme; and then the final pain-the fact that like
60,00b other Belfasters, he was a-refugee within his
own city: Onóe, he'd btien one of the few Catholics to
make it into Uliter society; now he wai homeless.
Frank Gogarty looked thin, his'eyes were deeply
sunken, and iomehow, though he felt deep political

By Glaudia Dreifus

find,

commitments, he was no longer a maior activist. He
said little äs we walked. Only every now and then he'd
mutter something about how wonderful it was that Úe
wãi" álLst¡tl alivð"considerin'the past five years and'

all."
,

survive.

Like Gogarty the man, Belfast the city¡ was worn

out. lt's always'been a terrible place of smog and dirt
and.tiorrid little red-brick row-on-row slums. But now,
wii¡ arit¡itì Army occupation and wiih urbariguerilla

warfare, this Was a city on the verge of a riervous breakdown. Belfast collage: British troops on patrol everywhere in the Catholic community-few soldiers in the
Protestant d¡stricts; in Catholic Belfast, armed observa'
tion posts every few blocks-blg ugly rob.ot-loolcing -build'ings, surróunded by net fencing,'with blocked off
windovis'for machine guns pointed 4t pedestrians;
routine Army seaiches doryntown; gaps in the sÛeets
where houses oncd stood. The maior landmarks are
those of destruction: "Ach, Claudia, do you remember
the Springfield-Market. . .it's this parking lot. . . At
this oub.Ihe Prods bombed 12 to their dèaths. . . Here
itrt"å ¿¡é¿. . . An assassination squad killed a wee boy
here.. .

."

We walk through the New Lodge Road Area and
we are surrounded by a British patrol. They stare at
us. suns oointed. We'walk on. "Does that ever fright'

ðñioJi'; l ask. "You see Frank,

l do find it unnerving

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And sometimes it kills the body; too. One night in
1969, J walked the Fall's Road barricades with a
youn'g IR¡ soldier. The Catholic citizens of the Fall's
had bãrricaded themselves after several blo,cks óf their
houses had been burnt to the ground by Protestant
móbs. (Postscrìpt from î975: ToQay ¡\!l would be
nothìnà but on' evervday occuirerìbe,) There it was: ¡
iñe Þui¡s communé-Belfast Style, 1969. lnside "Freei
Belfast," no rents were þeing paid, the Citize.n's
Defensô Committee patioled the streeps, Radjo Free
Belfast blared long banned lrish rebel songs; food and
mon"y was shared] everyone tal$ed brave new talk
about the beautifúl socialist lreland they were going
to build. "No gen'eiation of lrish children is going to
live with the tuberculosis and poverty and lowliness
* TheÍe are two lrlsh Republlcen Arml€s ln Elre. The "Of'
flclals" are marxlsts and ssek td avold sectarlan warfare be'
tween tt¡e two s€ctlons of lr€land's worklngþclâ3s. Tho
lroland' but th€lr
"-piãvìsionars" want a 32 county soclallstgêtting
rld of the
nriiããmáná and thelr maior cóncern ls
er¡iisfr. àotn IRA's do engage ln guerllla warfare, though the
¡úr ot ttre flqhtlng agalnst fhe Brltlsh has beên conducted
by tne Provoi Sometlmes, thç tPo groups have fought each
other.

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unification with lreland and they wanted none of
u"Jrillì r..dership of the Ulster Worker's Çqlttlçit'
ke'
tr'tä" I uú n tfl"d a d evastati n g Execu tive general -6tri
1974
of
sprins
the
in
wJeks
six
rot
Ñ;dhi;;;Ë¿
Ñãilfléin ii"fand'teetered on the brink of civil war'
fft'" gin Blow Out as people here caJl it with a
àr.i¿"¿"r"nrt of ineviiabiiity.) When the British Army
the UWC, 'the.Execu.tive fell; and
iéiutàJ tã
"onfront
became more frightened than ever'
Catholic Belf:rst
('itt"u;¿ never let us get away with stuff, like thát,"
ànL rít;t noad youth-complained. "We couldn't have
ããn. üin the first p!4ce," his compãnion, a member
ãi iñ"ôm.iuls retorted''"we've got no iobs to strike
iUoui."l ittough the stiike was tlrrifying to Catholic
ul;;;, ¡t uràuà'trt to fore a wholeîd-w group oftoyaliit leaäers: men who were dífferent frorfr anything in
historv. unlike the traditional A1slo'
i;i;f ;;irã;;ts who ian the Protestant unioniit Partv,
ir'rãr.îãl *.re shipyard workers. Thsyçwanted no part
ãiã r"iit¿ lreland, but some of them vÞre unbiþoted'
And that wøs new.
Murray, the short, stout, ope.n'faced, shipwright ind tradó-unionist who heads the Ulster
of
W"it"* õouncil, greeted me warmly,at the door
frit to¿ttt suburbãn Belfast home. He.was a pleasant
*án, *tto spoke straight from his emotions' All
lliãLàrlout'¿inner-ai he talked of conciliation bei*t"n"tl't" communities-l kept having to pinch ¡nY'
l'rir t*itv the man wh'ó broeght the Six Counties w¡thin an inch of civil war?
he says betwe-en forks of
"People on both sides,"
¿'have
been.fed fears b.y un'
chips and cold chicken,
icrüputous politicians' Are not a-ll Ulster people'the
iãtnàl Eu"rvuody dies, everybody is born, everybqdy
suffers a toothache. I believe if the people of the
Protestant and Cathol¡c communities were to meet
each other around tables like thi¡ohe, we could sur'rornt anything. We have much-ä common' lt is the
ooliticians that divide us."
'-;;\júh-t ;i;;;;' I venture, "were the catholics petrified
bv the Strike?"
-;Wá
*.t" against the politicans, no the Catholicg,"
he asse¡:ts. "Eñgland tried to put this Executive on us'
i *àrf¿ respeclthe fears of my Catholic brothers and
iisters ttrouþtr. Some of our politicians really.ought to-rlìÁrtt
ñ ttrJm. We have evil men among us who talk of
eiiermination. They should retire. The real issues in

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we've known," my guide explained. "They will have
have to go to Austrialia and
America for jobs. I tell ya, these barricades won't
come down unt¡l the system.does."
'One night in the summer of 1g12, the British Army
launched "Operation Motormen." Bulldozers and
tanks smashed Free Belfast to oblivion. Mv friend is
in a çemetery on a hilltop above the Fall's Road.
Everywhere I went, as I searched out old friends,
what I found was death, disillusionment, exhaustionall mixed up with a determination to go on because
there seems like no other way. Meanwhile, half of Belfast takes Valium, Liþrium and something called
"Roche 2." This is a drugged city. Those who don't
dose themselves, sit bleary-eyed in the handful of pubs
that have not been bombed. Pubs, once the center of
community life, are now death traps. Because they
are Catholic owned, they are regular targets for
Protestant kill-teams. Nevertheless, people sit there
drinkins themselves ihto stupors tträt gò well beyond
. ordinary drunkenness; risking death itself for alcoholic
relief.
I was in Belfast three days when I realized that like
everyone else, I was drinking too much. "Go ínterview
the other side," a Catholic fiiend advised. "lt'll do
you good tò see something else."
Frankly, I didn't know if it was possible to interview Loyalists. ln 1969, Protestant militants thought
of the foreign press in the same way they thought of
the Pope. Once, as I photographed a group of bombed
out houses on Bombay Street (bòmbed by Protestãnß,
formerly occupied by Catholics), I närrowly escaped a
stoníng. I do remember a reporter then, covering one
of lan Paisley's rally's, who lost his front teeth.
Things have changed, though. The past five years
have hardly been pleasant for most Protestants. Though

dig¡ity. They will not

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they've suffered fewer of the recent miseries, life was
now uncomfortable-sometimes even dangerous. Before'69, the Ulster Protestant, a hard-working, stern,
deeply religious_person, lived with the certain knowledge that his holy Ulster would always'be his; that
the Protestant would forever be in ascendency. Then
came the. Provisional IRA and its economic campaign. 'f
Factories were destroyed; jobs too. The shopping d'ís-

tricts of every town and village were blasted to rubble.
For the past five years, the IRA has been saying: "lf
we can'tlbuild something new, you can't have the old
system." So. life has become unhappy and confined. '
Loyalists are taking Valium, too. Worse yet, The
British, after the Protestant paramilitary began its
assassination campaign, started to intern l-oyalists. lt
was the Protestants who first demanded internmentwithout trial for Catholics and who are now finding
themselves getting lifted in the middle of the night
and tossed into Long Kesh.

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Úiit"t ut" not religióus anyway-they are bread
butter."
""
nf

and

åte and more, Harry Murray is sounding like

I see Boyle, we get so engrossed in a.shatteringdiscusmeeting idea never really comes up'
sion
- thai the you
thiñk of Harry Murray," lbegin'
'lWhat do
we grasp at straws,t' says Kevin' "We
lrish;
*.
"ön,
look tó the rise bf wõrking-class Protestant politics

and we hope it can overcome the enormity of sectarian
fruitt¿. Wtiat Murray stands for is such a slim reed in
the face of the bigger thing."
fft" Bidger Thlñfis the irratibnal visciousness.that
biings Noühern lreland'ever and'evqr closer to The
Big-Ëlowout. When England issuéd h.er post-Strik€"' '¿ '

wñl;Þ;d;'bäti' t¡¿"sigt".littut it wås a caçitula-

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a?
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tion to Protestant demands; no Council of lreland, nd
imoosed power-sharing' a constitutional convention

tri,ã titn't soon to deãíde the province's future' "What
lñ" Srititlt are saying" Boyle asserts, "is that they will

do no more. They wìil let events happen. ln -military
terms, thev are not prepared to repress any further' So
the néxt répressive action will come from the Loyalists'
I óan see us waking up one morning and finding trv'o
hundred Catholicimurdeled. Then you'd have a kind
ãf Palestinian situation: Catholics would mass at the
go.rJelin fear, there'd be a redrawing of national
uãrÉäui¡.t'with South Armagh and its Cdtholic
majority going to the Republic, and the.new Ulster
ãoi"tnótît rõfusing to let thç refugeës back.in"'lt
' îould be a ðisaster-and it's a highly probable scenario
thã way things are going. The ReprlÞlic has no capacity
suðh a laige pãpulation. There's not a single
iã
"UrotU
in¿uttry in South Armagh' The refugees might well
have
' - i'lfto emigrate."
the Lõy-alists fake,the initiative there's nothinÉ
to stop them. The British Army sat o¡ its.hands dur'
ing tf.ä Strike, did it not? As for the Provisionals, they
ii,ui. no chanóe in a confrontation with ttie Loyalists'
The Lovalists are armed to the'teeth and what they
will sim'ply do is to kill Catholics. The Provos can pro

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ná'tiin¡tar kind of counter'terror,in Protestant dle
îäãL. wittt the minority already herded into ghettos,
åri tñ. Lovutists have to do is cút a few roads, shut off
the water añd electricity and announce they are coming with guns in two daYs. . '"
Kevin looked tiaggard beyond words- A handsome
man in his early thirties, his body-lang-t'lage.bespoke
ãvèrwork and ér4otional exhaustion. The thing he does
sane in ail of this is community law, legal aid
to t
"rp poor. Considering The Troubles, he'5 got lots
for the
of work. "When the civil. rights movement began, we
never thought it would come to this," he sighs' "Peoole certainlv did not anticipate the scale of .the vio'
ience, nor: tire enormity of the im-passe. We thought

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there was more good will on the Protestant side than
ihrt. *^t. Me, l;m living day !o'gay. I want to see the
disaster' of civil war avoidëd. And-o¡e always lives in
f.opã. V.t, I've known about a half dozen people
*i'Ju" ¿ió¿. ttrat affects one. 'lt takes the heart out of
living, in a way. I feel a sort of terrible ¡rr¡tation that
what"seemed obvious to me a couple of years agothat religion was irrelevant and that pgople can ioin to'
g.lñ"t iõ create a just sgcietY, is not going to happen"'
"- As I leave, Boyie [ells me that for the first time in
his life. he's seriously considering emigrating'

Then came the final disillusionmení Early last year,
England attempted to impose a political middle-of-the
road solution on the Six Counties. The idea of the
Northern lreland Executive was that Britain would appoint a government of Catholic and Protestant minisiers: miãdle-class moderates from both sides.x There ,
would also be a Council of lreland to coordinate some
economic activities between North and South.
' Frankly, the Executive had few supporters beyond
the British government, the lr¡sh government and the
Ulster"middle-class. '.'SELL OUT!" Everyone else cfied.
Loyalists were convinced this was the first step to
*Since Nofthern !reland has always been ruled by a Brltlsh
feudal aristocracy, the lntroduction of mlddle-class pollticians
could be viewed as a progr€sslve step. However, in a country
ttlat has súch an enormous work¡ngþclass and sub-worklng
class, bourgeois politicans were not lik€ly to have much of
â base, The paramllitary groups on both sides'are closer to
Nctrthern lrish reallty, but were not a part of thé Execut¡ve,

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I think of him all the next morning as I ride on an

overcrowded bus th¿t is heading for LongKesh irtternr.ni tutp. A new friend, Mairè prumm, Vice Presí:
.àent of th'e Provisional Sinn'Fein*, has devised a clevêr
ptan to sneak me inside. Though reporters are not al*Thls ls a very racl¡cal statement. The Protestants cons¡der
olse-and
öatholics conslder themselves lrlsh and nothlng
ttrus ttre whole Þroblem becomes a hatlonal questlon'

tne*iåìrej Èiiti.n or scotelrish or scotch, but never lris¡'
* The political arm of the Prov¡sional IRA'

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lowed into the Kesh, Maire has put me down as an
American cousin of her eldest son, internee Shaemus
Drumm, 26. On the bus, thg women all laugh with excitementr how lovely it isto pull a fast one on the
Brits! Me, I'm shaking a little. Truly, I have nb idea
what the penalties arè for breaking'into one of Her
Majesty's internment camps, but I suspect them to be

.Alsatian police dogs yelping from between fences'

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unpleasant.

"Ach, don't worry about Kevin Boyle," Maire in-

sists, as she tries to take my mind away from my
double tension. "He's a gloomy man and our situation
is hardly gloomy." Maire ¡s the def¡n¡t¡on of the strong
Belfast woman, a remarkable example of a commoq
type: physically largè, locquacious, unafraid, passion-

ate, the equal of any man in her midst.
"The people have defended themselves for five
years and will continue to do so," she,continues. 'fAs
for this coming'bloodbath,'wq've already had a bloodbath: it came from the Brits. We're winning! We have
the people behind us. We've inflicted seiere losses on
the British and they've admitted they.cari't,defeat us."

Drumm is not all wrong. The Provisional IRA has
sustained the first sqccessful urban guerilla war in
Europe since World War ll. When you consider the
modernity of the British counter-¡nsurgency program,
you realize that the Provos have remarkable support
in Catholic areas. Who would havç thought they could
have survived this long? The repression, ãs symbolized
by Long Kesh, has been intense.
. Long Kesh. lnternment. For the Catholic people,
internment is the sorest wound. Until recently, it was
only Catholics who were rounded up during mid-night
raids, interrogated, (and sometimes tortured) locked
up without trial, herded into internment camps for indefinite periods of time. Though some Loyalists are

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now getting "l¡fted,'1 numerically it is still the minority
population of the Six Çounties that makes up the mas
sive majority of Long Kesh.
On the bus; next to Maire, sits an elderly woman, a
Mrs. O'Neill. She's been up all níght pleading with
authorities for her husband's release. Mr. O'Neill has
suffered two heart attacks behiird the wirq and since
Merlyn Rees, Northern lrèland Secretary of State, has
just announced the release of seven internees, Mrs.
O'Neill wants her man to be among them.
"Oh, I wish she wouldn't deceive herself," Maire
whispers to me. "There are no definite sentences and

they don't let people out for reasons of charity or
logic.l'
Every woman on the bus is harboring secret hopes

that her man might bè one of the seven.
"ls this the first concentration camp you've seen?"
a wom,an near me inquires. I reel at the question,

thinking of relatives who knew Auschwítz.
And Long Kesh, it turns out'truly is a concentration
camp, though it lacks crematoria. A former World War
ll aerodrome, the camp consists of a series of uninsu- '

lated, unheated, unsanitary corrugated huts plunked
down on top of abandoned runways. The living
quarters are surrounded by a British Army compound,
whích is surrounded by endless mazes of wiring; fences
so dense that you can seè neither out nor in. Men inside feel so deprived that they spend their days searching for something to look aü they stare at a¡television .
tower ¡n the distance-the only object they can see,
though Long Kesh is surrounded by mountaíns. There
are few recreational facilities, no real hospitals, no nothing. Honestly, I cannot describe the bleakness of the '
plãce: just coid, wet, greyness. Sometimes, you hear
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'fhat's all.

We go tÒ a

filthy water-logged hut near the parking

lot and are locked in. After a long wait, to another hut
where we are searched. Everything but our clothing is
taken from us and put into a bag. Then, a bus takes us
into the body of the camp itself. As we drive, I can discern no signs of life, no fprms: just more mazes..lnto
.another shack, for another locked-up wàit. When our
names are called, we are sent through a series of barricades; each of us is followed by our own personal
guard, as if we too, were prisoners. And there, in a
small open room, with a guard birddogging him, is _
Shaemus Drumm, interned on charges of being a meml
ber of the lRA.
He is tired. There was an attempted breakout the
night before and the Army came into the huts and
kept the prisoners awake. Also, there iq sad news: a
,young boy died of an ear'infection.
"How do you die of an ear infection?" I inquire.
"Neglect. .Or worser" Shaemus answers. "People
here die of things they needn't die of, if you know
;

whatlmean.,."

"Do. you think you'll ever get out of here?" I ask.
"T'is'hard to say. I've been studying to get into
Queen's University and they've accepted me. , .but who
can know? Part of the torture is that they take you
and never let you know when it's going to end. There's
nothing much to do here, except maybe to die."
After a half-hour, a guard removes us. ln the parking-lot, Mrs. O'Neill is weeplng hysteçically. "They'll
not free him. They want him to die of the heart, they

want him fo die."
Later that afternoon, I am sitting in my hotel room
with an old friend, drinking away the grey images of
Long Kesh. Suddenly-quiteJrom nowhere-windows
shatter and a massive explosioh shakes the building.
"lt's only a bomb," says my fiiend, most.calmly as
she pours herself another drink. "You get used t1it,,,

you
- know,"

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Jesus, you do get used to things in Belfast. Yqu Get
Used To lt, I heard that phrase a hundred times all

week as people explained how they live with the impossible. Phil Curran, a Catholíc activist summed it up
best: "ln the 1960's, I'd watch television and wonder
how it was that anyone stayed in Vietnam. Now I know
You get used to it.."
The management of the Hotel Erlrropa was qtite
useY to it. This car bomb was aimed at the Hotel (for
the 2ird time), but planted across the street because
'the
attackers could get no closer. At the Europa's bar,
journalists were all merrily guessing it to be Provo job.
"The¡,e was a warning. The Loyalists never warn,t' one
saíd. Casualty toll: The Europa Hotel was once again
missing its window panes. Motive: Tonight'is the eve' ,
of the most sacred of all Ulster Protestant Holidaysluly 12, the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne.

"This is the Provos way of telling the Loyalists they

have the capacity to bomb downtown anytime they
choose," one local ,journalist explained. "lt's also their,
way of telling their adversaries to go to hell."
An hour later, Eu'ropa journalistic boozing was interputed by a hysterical woman, red-faced, running into the bar and screaming something about an explosion
at the Hercules Bar down the road. "There's nothing
left. . .just smoke and cinders. . ,and þlood."
pub,
The, Hercu[es had beeñ a Catholic owned
fl
om
British
a
Army
the
street
located directly across
post; a safe enough spot, one would think. Neverthe-

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PAULA RAYMAN
Life

olv THE
/SRáEL-

has changed

on Kibbutz Hanita since I lived here

in 1970-71 but living goes on. There are many indications of change on this Jeúish settlement of 400
people located on the top of a mountain range which
separates lsrael from Lebanon. Along the road from
Nahariya, the nearest town (which last year was the
scene of a terrorist action) there are three new roadblocks guarded by lsraeli soldiers who check all ongoing traffìc. From the bottom of the mountain to
Hanita at the top there is a new army road along side
the old which allows ta'nks and other military equipment to move along the northern border from the
Mediterranean Sea towards Syria. At night I can hear
the roaring sounds of the tanks as they pass to and

fro each hour.
Around Hanita itself there is a barbed wire fence
which now prohibits the short trips we used to take
into the surrounding hills and caves. The contrast
between the-beauty of the kibbutz, with its blossom:
ing trees, vivid colored flowers and commanding view
of the Mediterranean, and the stark reality of ,the
fence is perhaps a symbol of the kind of life people
here lead. Sínce Hanita was the target of an unsuccessful terrorist action (two guerillas entered the kibbutz
from Lebanon but were driven off before hostages
could be taken) last December all male members of

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the kibbutz carry guns at all times: in the communal :,
dining hall, to the weekly movie, in the TV room añd '
.to work. Yesterday I watched a father putting his
daughter to bed in the children's house after a piggyback ride while a rifle hung loosely on his shoulder.
Afterwards I told him that it was very diffìcult for me
to feel comfortable with a gun's presence and he
replied that his children were his future and the gun
insured they would have a future.
On the question of their security, the kibbutzniks
.

with whom I have had conversations have a more sober
and somewhat dogmatic attitude than before the Oc-.
tober'1973 War. A certain confidence that contributed
to both an aggressive chauvinism and a life-style
buoyancy is gone. People seem much more aware that
they have little control over the events that determine
the political situation and the possibility of another
war. They feel that lsrael is isolated from the rest of
the world, and therefore as lsraelis they can only

¡'
Ul and Kis'

singei'i ;'mission imposiible" are mixed. The situation
in ñ-r-¿o.fl¡nu has contributed to the r:ealization that
the Àmerican people are less willing to allocate resoú;;.; i; miiitaiy expenditures abroad and that Kistini"t;t piincipat concern is to maintain the U-S as
Hanita still feel
';;;;-;;;;; Vei most kibbutzniks ata defeat
in war'
t-ft.'Uiioul¿ not let lsrael suffer

. Readiness for another war is apparenteverywhere
¡n lsraet ttrough few think it will happen in the imMv friend who managQs a fac¡orY in
Tel Aviv told me four out of fìve foremen are now
lnäúiìii"i; i" the kibbutzs homerin (soldier.-guardÐ
iiu"-¡n uutiu"ks in the community and all kibbutz
men and women' have guard.duty.in.addi'
lìã" to tÉ" regular work hours and kitchen duties'
ù"räriãt fro;r the october War acutely persist: one
u"rnã memUer was killed, another lost his leg and
åi*ii.ãt wurting with bais each day in front of his
root. Theie seems to be the feeling that
ãnãih.t war is inevitable, that there i-s no choice, ein
breiro, thal there are no alternatives tor actlon'
One member who lived abroad for two years while
r.tuini as a Jewish youth organizer. in.England said
irre ôíatitv ót lif. nus changed in Hanila' Born on the
íiiuuirti, he feels most members have given up. chal-

ili;,;iuirri.
;t*6*,
lriti

leneine'discussions, struggl¡ng for kibbutz socialism
anipissionately participating in [ibbutz functions'

.H" not"¿ how múch more tim€'iridividual members
soend in their private rooms,'eating dinner there
i"th.t thun in the communal hall. Although the recent
¿eiis¡on to have children sleepat their parent's home

and close the communal children's sleeping houses
*¡tt tut. fiye years to put ¡nto effect-(it will take that
íone to build ;dditioni to the parent's homes) it also
iÃäi.iiti n [essening of communal ties' Many kibbutz
ó"itntt seem appre-hensive that their children will not
ãñll l"ãu. the kiubutz but lsrael as well' of the fìve'
o"o'¡t. mv age I was closest to four years ago only
å"ã ttilf tätãint in Hanita: one is in Canada, another
in Cãtiforn¡u; one in Jerusalem and the last in an lstown. All were born in Hanita.
raeli
'--innii¡on
which has hit lsraelis as a whole very.hard
p.ol.ths),. in a .
(it ä"tîåá" +0'So% during the past
highest, has alworld's
the
is
rate
iition wtl"r" the tax
iã ttuà un effect on kibbutz consumption arid produciion Urt for the most.part the kibbutznik- is better off
. ihan the city dweller' The responsibility for meeting
inà uus¡c neäds of each member rests ùpon the entire
iommunity and not on the single breadwinner' The
kibbutz foi instance may have to choose between building u n.* kindergarten or buying new machinery but
thls is quite diferent than choosing between a quart

¡[

of milk and pouncl of butter which

is

the dilemma tac-

ing
" many city-dwellers.

"fr'rã,iãri'prominent reaction I have had dqrins qI
tränsition intä lsraeli life and the kibbutz border comj
has been the constant iarring ':
a country on the brink of war'
of watching th'e news reports on TV

tunity in particular
rãnré óf U.j¡ne

within

iïãlio"tit"Ëe

in America is totally different from direct contact
it'" people living the news. From afar it was
ärlf'r óiri"r" io intellðctually analvse the situation,
have meetings and discussions on the issue ot a
Þálestinian S1ate, argue for one state/two.state5'
and even
;;ì;äM"rican iñvolvement. The media
knowing
from
us
keep
and
antiseptic
are
iv óiãiut.t
tr-rl iiig.¿v of the feai and destruction, despe-rateness
found
ànã ¡ããtn trtut are part of war and theref.ore
the
*iir,i"lri".li socieiy. I feel more sympathy.for
deeper
peopló
but
simultaneouslv'a
i;;;;ìì i;;irÁ

W¡tf,

.rìä.ål'i*"i.ness'of their prei udices (i'e' Palesìl nians'
Ã;;r;;¿ l",,"r people, one cannot trust non-Jew-s) .

il1i';i;;(;itt'1u trnuiuau, defensíve posture) is begin'ning to emeÈge.
*ut"an article in WIN l3l6175l bv Uri Davis
irlãr.

East
and-isiael Shahak criticizing the WRL's Middle
At.the.
üåt*tnt ãnd a rdply by Allan Solomonow'
plece
time I disagreed with the accusative tone oT thelr
ilisand foundlt counterproductive to constructive
I r'e-read the WRL statement again
"rir¡on:'Ho*ever,
after arriving at the k¡bbutz and found it even more
irr f ¡ than"the Dav is/Shahak respo nse becau se.it. not
onlv "e
aîoids a clear analysis of the reality of the Mid
Eäii. t'¡ttori.ally and at present, but also posits the
action that seems at best naive and
ki"d
"ï;;;;iolént
peop[e's
action away from genuine
iì *oitt directs
group
radical activity. No one here would welcome a
be
would
lt
safety'
iu.stly
their
of outsiders to secure
uir*ããït ir"rm of paternalism and to radic¿ls and
Äiau ó"opr"t a movément reminiscent of colonial
benevolence'
-ii it tuttt'more important for all those coneerned
wit'f' nãnuiot"nce in general and the Middlé East in
oarticular to concentrate their energy on developing

ãittãiti r"¿erstanding of the history of the-conflict'
ihi .ionot¡" and poliiical dimensions and, for those
in

;i;;;ñ
;d;";'t;.

;re Americans, the nature of US interests

More than evór wç ¡ged to ask ourselves if
we haie the discipline to "do our"homework" so we '
speak
can overcome our confusion, if we can bear to
iñ" tirif't while being named anti-Semites, self'haters,
cómmrnittt and uto-pians, if we can put into action
nonviolent strategy which strongly challenges the
person on
status quo power'politics. There is not one
iñîtìubrti that now believes that his/her security is

not tied to the gun.

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And so I fight. Nonviolence is my weapon; it is also
my creed. I willfight in the streets; I will fight in the
,courts; I willfight in the prisons; I will fight until I am
dead. And I will try to live in such a way that not even
death can still my voice. For all the little children of
the world, for thê sake of my own soul, and for the
love of God, I can do no less.
t a" ,tronj in the spirit açà neutttty oî uoay. ln the t
words of a prison poet:
Morning I rise to you

ficult to cgntrol, or const¡tuted an obvious danger to
a

pRtsoN lerrERs:
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Photo from the LAWG Letter/LNS,

MITCH SNYDER

A rather warm, quiet, peaceful day here on God's little acre. Only ihè sound of birds singing. The men aie
in the chow hall for lunch, and I am alone in the cell
block. The yard is filled with pigeons. The men drop
bread f¡:om the windows, and fhe feathery ones gather
within the confines of the wall. live seen the same
thing in many other jails. lt appears to be a source of
hope or loy for men behind bars to watch creatures
come and go without constraint, for whom the hated
walls mean nothing.
The reality of peace in Vietnam has finally penetrated my ever-thickening qkull, and I thank God.
They have taught us committment, courage, and spirit
in the face of war. Now I pray they will give us an
example of patience, dompaspion, and charity in

building the peace.
Much has changed, yet it remains the same. The
cancer which devours the soul of the Western world
and threatens to pollute all it comes in contact with,
continues its crqel work. Vietnam was a symptom.
The underlying illness is yet to be met and overcome,
within and withôut. And so, old friend, our work

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must go on.
The food here is qui.te good, particularly for a
county Jail. I dare say that for rqost of the world it
represents all they would ask for, and much more.
But, unfortunately and understandably,.the menu
was not designed with an indefinite liquid fast in mind.
For the first 21 days I subsisted on water and was
reduced to 127 pounds. I have undertaken water'fasts
for longer períods in the past, but it seems the previous

five months on liquids had'taken a toll. For the first
time in my life I began to experiehce starvation; not as
an abstract, but within the flesh. After a herculean effort on the part of many good peo.ple, the folks here
had a change of'heart. On Wednesday I began receiving modest but adequate amounts of fruit juice and

tomato soup, After two days I added seven pounds to

Mitch Snyder is currently serving a three month
sentence for the destruction of property of a foreign
gõvernment, pourlng blood on the fìles of the Vietnam
Overseos Procurement OffÌce, on Good Fridoy, April
12, '1974. He is scheduled for relaese on J une 21.
On November 1,6, the fìnal day of the World Food
Conference in Rome, he and Mory Ellen Hombs begon.
q0 ¡n.defln¡te liquid fost, to cont¡nue "untìl every
human beìng'in the world is guoranteed that most
basic humon rìght, the rlght to proper nourishment."
Both ore octively involved in raislng funds for direct
famine rellef, via Fast for Fomine Relief which they
co-founded ln November,

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my undernourished fiame. Strength, pätience, and
perspective return. llve become relatively easy to

hirirself and others, the drugs might appea¡, The
wonder drugs that turn human brain cells into vegetable matter. For some restraints are the order of the
day. One hand chained to the head of the bed,'one
foot s¡akcled to the base board' And the man was
now free to urinate and defacate all over himself. To
be cleaned occasionally, for wo,are a civi'li2êd people.,
And above all the suffering and pain hovers the
clgud of indifference. lf there are some who care, I
apologize, but their concern was never felt. To know
that those who hold the keys, in whose hands rest
your well being-possìbly your life, iü.-t don't give a
damn, is to explore one of the levels of hell. lt's
frightäning ít's saddening, ¡t'3 íhfuriat¡ng, and there
is ñothing you can do about it.

the floor. "Help me,'^' he would say very softly, "please
help me. They are going to,kill me." Occasionally he
would stop by one of the beds and just stare at the
occupant. And all night he carried a sharpened pencil
clenched tightly in his fist. I did not choose to be
awakerìed by the sound of screams, possibly my own, 3
or to be greeted by the sight of a pencil protruding
from what was once an eye. And so I remained awake
throughout the first night. During a brief stay in the
Los Angeles County Jail a few years ago, another poor,
sick man managed to obtain arazor, and dur:ing the
night slashed a number of men across the eyes, blinding one for life.
He was forcibly moved to a less densely populated
ward down hall at seven am, to be replaced by a senile
old man who would occasionally sing with all the
volume at his command. He also had a habit of taking
peoples property when they were asleep or on a visit.
Luckily he was with men who realized he was not
responsible for his actions. But luck and cell mates
have a habit of changing. Later that day we were
joined by another young man who claimed to have
been arresled for grabbing a womans breast. His bail
was $150, with trial set for June 18. He had hitched,
bare foot, from Nebraska to DC, and arrived with two
badly frost-bitten feet. He would laugh wildly at all
hours of the day and night, and-masterbate three or
four times during the day.
And there were others. Those who stayed for a
day, or two, or three. Men with heart conditions,
jaundice, sfab wounds, recent surgery. Men who might
have to wait a day or longer for medication. Some
would end the¡r lives in that room. And the silencç
woul.d be broken by the sound of irrational laughter,
screêms in the night, or cries for help. And occasionally help would come. For when a man became too dif-

Today a prisoner hanged himself. I watch as his body is
carried through the yard. As the van passes the gates ¿
the pidgeons fly away.

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please.

After spending six days in the prison hospital I returned to my cell on Thursday. lt's not a very nice
place. As a matter of fact, it is a very bad place. The
hospital is divided into six-man wards, which are
simply over-sized cells. The door is always locked. The
ward I occupied had two broken ryindows, which
made it rather drafty, and only one working light. At
sundown the room was bathed in darkness. lt didn't
make much differeñce, since there was noth¡ng to do
any v/ay. Total reading material: four comic books
and a few copies of Jet Magazine, with writing paper
and envelopes in short supply. Of course there was
neíther radio nor tv.
What made it really cozy was the arbitrarv mix of
men who are obviously in desperate need of psychriatric care, with those who are physically ill. One of
'my ward-mates, a young man, spent the night pacing

Bread I restore you
Brother I love you.

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Located in Maiion, lllinois is the US penitentiary
known as Marion. Marion was built in the 60's to replàce Alcatraz. lt was made to supposedly hold 400
of the most dangerous men in the US.
The prison itself looks like something out of a
science fiction movie. Every 30 feet in the prison
hallways are electric gates monitored by tv €ameras.
The prisoner capacity is 400 inmates. Of this 400,
over 200 are in ultra mgdern segregation and behavior
modification units, where prisoners are kept in their
individually manned cages23/z hours a day. They are
held in such "holes" two, three and'four years at a
time. They are let òut of their cages for a half hour a
day to exercise'. Thìs exercisë consists of walking or
running up and back a small hall outside their cage.
Whenever a prisoner is táken out of his cage and will
be anywhere near a prison guard, the prisoner is _
placed in handcuffs through his trayrslot before his
door is even opened.
Being so cómpletely segrrãgated there is'hardly any
resistance they are able to wage. Frequently there
have been food strikes for grievances. Other times
there has bèen small resistance frohr iniide the
cages themselves of men flooding the urlit by overflowing their toilets, or'throwing their food trays on
the police or sometimes trying to fight when their
doors are opened to move them to what is known as
the "boxcars." Theie small fights are futile against
the oddswe face. From outside the cages,.they face
guards with riot helmets, shields, pick handles, gas
masks, gas guns and even gas machines. There is one
gas machine called "Bíg Bertha." Big Bertha is set in
front of your cage and a gas blower,fills your room
with gas so thick the victim is carried from.the cage
unconscious.
There are ten cages in the H-unit long term segre
gation program that are called "boicars." These are
cages with two doors to cut off sound and light. Within these cages the men are denied all personal ptoper:
tyr They are kept like this months at a time; '
íholês"
The most infamous.one of these long term
is H-unit. W¡thin this unit are men kidnãpped from
other countries for political,crimes; prisoners from
rebels; men from
state prisons labelled unman
Eddìe Sanchez is a prisoner at the Federal Correctional I nstìtute at: Marìo4 I ll lnoìs,

South Africa-blacks who were involved in the fight

.'for freedom there; state prisoners frorn.the VirÈin

lslands and Hawaii who are illegally kidnapped into
federal prisons and immediatelynout in this "hole,'i
so far from home they are unable to receivë'visits
from their families'or lawyers; several black prisoners
who are state prisoners from Washington, DC who are
kept here becãuse they are considered strong leadership types; and st¿te prisoners from around the
country who are kidnapped under what is termed
leasing.contracts in whiih these countries and states
pay the federal government to hduse these men.
ln H-unit there are only about five white prisoners.
All others aré'black, Puerto Rican, Chicano and Asian
orientals. All of the white prisoners except for two
are kept on a special tier in the hole where they are
let out of their cages together all day and are paid
money for operating a factory manufacturing mail-

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for government use.
Withiñ the unit is practiced overt racism b.y.officialÈ.
Mail to and from people on the outside is tampered
with and destroyed systematically to break any of the
bags

outside ties the prisoners may have.
Presently the peopJe's Law Office and the National
Prison Project are arguing class action civil suits in
federal court on beþalf of the prisoners. Corltesting I
such issues as political repression, racisni, brutality,
the kidnaps, etc..

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piiron.r. familie! are conducted in a
repressive environment. The vists are conducted
through a bullet-proof glass where the prisoner communicates with his visitor on a telephone.
Visits

totally

CONTACT:

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Tñe jrisoners in H-unit urge your support and letterg;
We urge your support for our struggle by writing
.ludge Jame's Foreman, US District Court, East St.
Louis, lllinois and tell him to halt the use of the long
term control unit in Marion Federal Penitentiary and
rule in behalf of the prisoners bringing suit. Wriie US
Senator Charles Percy, US Senate, Washingtor\, DC
urging him to halt the use of the long term control
unit (H-unit) at Marion Federal Penitentiary. Write US
Congressman Robert W. Kastenmeier, US Congress,
Washington; ÐC urging him to use his committee to
halt the long term control unit (H-unit) in Marion
Federal Prison. Send copies of your letters to Peoples
Law Office, 2156 N. Halsted, Chicago, lllinois'and "
National Prison Project, 1346 Connecticut Ave., NW,
Wuite 1031, Washington, DC,
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The Mayaguez. Photo by LNs.
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A Letter to
Paul Coodman
from an
Alternative School

in Milwaukee

Dear Friend:

It's like you said so often: People think youire crazy
if you try to trust adolescents tq work out their own

problems at their own pace. Trouble is, you begin to

think they're right if you're not careful. And so this
letter, which is both a way of thanking you for your
moral support over the years aríd a way of making us
feel a little less crazy out here in Milwaukee
You werê fond of pointing out the incredible talent adults have for screwing up the normal growth
proce.sses of young people. Well, almost by accident,

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our alternative high school has developed in such a
way that we couldn't do an efficie4t job of picking at
our students even if we wanted to. Fact is, we've
grown so fast and have so little money that adult
meddling has to be kept to a minimum. Three years
ago, there were about four or five adults working with
about 30 kids; and we had to consciously resist lhe
impulse to force the kids into "doing something wo.rthwhile with their lives." But as the word spread that
Multicultural didn't,require people to take any classes,
that we accepted everyone who applied, charged no I
tuition, etc., people started to come to us from just
about every high school in the city. Last year, we
served as the school of record for over 400 people.
Presently, our enrollment is over 500 with half the
school year still to go. I might add, by the way, that we
continue to scrape along on a $400 yearly budgeq
most of which is raised by students through bake sales

and small benefits. All státr people are vol"unteers with
the exception of one Vista volunteer who just joined
us. And we continue to hold.all classes in church basements and back rooms of social agencies. At present,
we work out of six locations scattered around the city,
and thqre are two more in the works.
Early on in our existence, we gave up the notion
that the average student wants to go to lots of classes.
We've found that most of the people who come to us
simply want some time to get things together free of
hassles from parents and school social workers (today's
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truant offìcer). Others want to try their hand at a decent lob. So even though we work hard each year to
recruit resource people for a wide range of course offerings, we always seem to end up with iust the basic
skills qourses flourishing. We've found that people who
want to do serious readìng in such areas as F.niinist
Literature will do it at home on their own, or with a
couple of close friends.

TIIE MAYAGUßZ
AFFAIR
Factual

But rather than discuss about how Multicultural
operates, we'd rather share the psychological ups and
downs we've been through; because it was during these
times that we found ourselves saying ,'Paul Gooðman,
if no one else, would understand wh-at rye're trying to'
do." Seems that a couple of times a year, we start
wondering if we're doing the right thing. Some adults
begin to yearn for a more structured setting, one where
they can relate to a smaller number of students who
would give them more concrete rewards. Some of us
start thinking about limiiing enrollrnent, maybe even
requiring kids to take courses. Soon all the old ãrgu- :
ments for "tightening things up" come to the surface,
most of them linked to the charge that "Multicultuial
is nothing but a clearinghouse and a copout and a,
place to escape the truant officer."
But just when we get thinking along these lines,
someone brings up the fact that our students like
Multi fust as it is. We got an overwhelmingly positive
response to a ques(ionnaire we sent out this past summer. And then someone will bring up the all important
fact that most of our students left public school just
because they were fed up with adults dictating what
they should do with their time. And so we invariably
decide to keep things aS they are and we begin to share
the latest good news: Bill finally got a non-rip-off job;
Sue has found a better foster home for her and her
child; Jim, whom no one really got to know personally,
has taken and pàssed the High School Equivalency
Exam all on his own, etc. This last, incidentally, looks
to be an incredibly_promising way of breaking th.e ,,
monopoly public high schools have on skill accrddihl

coast of Ecuador.
Was the Cambodián action justified?
Probably not. Certainly the Cambodians have been
difficult to deal¡vith, holding more than 600 foreigners in the French Embassy for some days before final-

ly agreeing to permit them to depart by bus for
Thailand. So far as is known, the Cambodians made
no response to initial US dem4nds for release of the

Who knows where it all will end? Maybe the system
will try to bust us when we hit an enrollment of 1,000.

And if they still don't understand-as we're sure will

with most-we'll have a party, preferably
one where adult seriousness doein't drive out adolescent joy. And if we adults find ourselves pulling their
be the case

joy "down.to earth" with talk of our troubles in finding a new resouice person for the Southside, etc., we'll
sþlit from the party and have a few quiet beers in your
memory.

Our best,
The "old folks" at Multicultural Community High
School, lnc.
CONTACT:

Multicultural Community High School, lnc.
Office: 3207 N. Hackett Avenue
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 5321

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On Monday, May 12, Cambodian ships boarded the
Mayaguez, an American merchant sf ip. The State
Department claimed the Cambodian action an "act
of p¡racy," insisting the Maylgyez was on the high
seas. There is some question where the Mayaguez was
when bbarded. lt seeiîs likely it was within disputed
waters, iust off an island to which both Cambodia and
South Vietnam lay claim.
Was the Seizure Unusual? t !1
No. The Cambodians had halted other ships in the
area and the-US, had it been seeking to avoid trouble
at this moment, would have urged all US shipping to
keep well clear of disputed waters. So far as we know,
no such order was issued. The Mayaguez was taken in
disputed waters after US offcials knew the shipping of
other nations had encountered diffculty. Nor was the
Cambodian action unusual. The Ecuadorian Navy has
repeatedly seized US ships fishing the waters off the

tion.
Or just maybe they'll realize they're losing a lot of
State aid and begin tryirlg to meet the needs of the
people still with them. All we know for sure is that
somehow we will continue to provide breathing room
for all who come to us. And if people continue to sayas we're sure they will-that we're not educating them,
we'll send them to you via Compulsory Mis-Education,

Background

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ship. However, the very factthat the government of
Carnbodia is new means that the normal lines of communication do not yet exist. The Cambodians may
well have felt that the Mayaguez was engaged in some
hostile act. The.re would have been,¡mple basis for
such suspicions in view of previous Us actions.
Was the crew of the Nlayaguez in danger?
Yes, beyond question it wãs in profoùnd danger. That
danger, however, was from Henry Kigsînger, not the
Cambodians. There is no reason to assume the Cambodians would not have released the sh[p and crew
eventually. They might reasonably have sought to
trade the ship and its crew for Cambodian aircraft
which had flown to Thailand in the final stages of the
revolution, aircraft which the Cambodian government
insists must be returned.
Did the US ask the UN to intervene?
Yes,ofter the US had sunk three Cambodian gunboats, Ford asked Waldheim to intervene.
Wai Congress Consulted?
Ford says it was. Senator Mansfield says that he was
.ìnformed aftgr the decìsions hod been token, notconsulted. Eithel Ford or Mansfield is lying, with the past
record suggesting it ís Ford.

Why Did Ford Act so Swiftly?
The US actions \ryere extraordinary. The foreigners
that had been held in the French Embassy in Phnom
Penh had been released. There was no reason to assume the crew of the Mayaguêz would not have been
released, though additional days or weeks might have
been involved. The US action cost some American
líves and an unknown number of Cambodian lives.
Cambodian ships were sunk. A Cambodian airport on

the mainland was heavily bombed. A Cambodian

is-

larid was invaded by US Marines (The bombing of the
mainland occurred ofter the crew of the Mayaguez was

in US hands.)

The answer to why the US açted so swiftly is found

to some extent in international politics, andto a
.greater extent in domestic politics'.Having been

ñumiliated by the smashing defeats in Cambodia.and
Vietnam, Kissinger was looking for an easy way to
' iemind the world of US power. Throwing the might
of the US Air Force against Ca4bodian gunboats was
the answer: lt was a cowardly act, as well as'an illegal
one. lt was also on a par with Kissinger's recent performance-fairly
stupid. lt strained relations with
-[hailand,
which has now recalled its.Ambassador and
all but broken relations with the US. Politically it
could hardly impress China or Russia, which must
surely have taken note that the US permitted Cambodia and South Vietnam to fall and then displayed
its impotence by attacking some gun boats.
The real target of Ford's action was probably Ronald
Reagan and the Republican right wing. Saving the
crew was incidental to saving fâce. Flexiñg muscle was
more crucial politically than exercising the brain.
eonclusions:
This affair does not mark the re-entry of the US into
Cambodian/Vietnamese conflict, but a final and
predictable spasm of violence. lt was an illegal act, a
cowardly act, and a foolish act-in short, the kind of
thing at which great powers are particularly adept.

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We have always said it is d4ngerous to arm people
because their guns make rational solutions a.second
choice. What is discouraging is that Congress was so
placid in the face of th¡s brutal assault on a tiny nation. Ford, appointed by a criminal, now takes his
place in the valid line of succession as a violator of
the laws of the land.. Congress continues its role of
collaboration with the Pentago¡ until public pregsure

forces

it to act. Might I sugglest lou write your mem-

ber of Cpngress for whatever written statementò your
member issued, and, unless that statement rebukçd

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the President for a clqar violation of law, put it ¡n
your file marked "reasons for running a radical candidate in my district in "1976."

All in all, a small and tragic affair, humiliating to
Americans but typical of our national conduct these
past decades;
-David McReynolds
Meanwhile back in California the Coast Guard seized
a Polish fishing ship on May '17. The ship was 10 miles
off the coast and remains in US custody as we go to
press. This,is believed to be the first such seizure since
1972when the US captured three Soviet vessels off
Alaska.

By Kiisinger's logic we should expect Polish marines in San Francisco by the time you read this.-WlN
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ilfi Promonifll)ns
l)f
0ry¡fnl Nighf"
Don't placate me.
Take certain steps with me
To re-arrange the disorder.
They arc screaming in Chile:
They are putting their deaths to the test,
Our Brazilian comrades have perished already.

Don't placate

rne.

Let us organize the resistance
Before it's too

late.

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Cancel the dances. Start subverting
The corruption. lt may be only days
Before they round us up.

Don't soothe me.
Tell me what steps you are taking
And I will tell you what steps I am taking.
Itts tíme. lt's too late
To suffer, to complain or to wait.

ls vomiting up its poisons.

And whoever isn't paranoid
lsn't preparing the escape routes.

It is crumbling from above:
Comrades, don't get crushed in the rubble.
Those vicious men ín formal suits
Are panicking. Worry about iÇ friends.
It's really time to organize
The resistance. Don't calm me. .

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days in MaY, according to Prensa
Latina, the Cuban news service.
Spokespersons for Urugqay's labor
unions are now saying the arrests were
conducted to prevent the large Mayday demonstrations that had been

planned.
Despite the arrests, small street
gatherings took place in Montevideo
throughout the day. Large Mâyday
demonstrations were also held in
Ecuador, Columbia, Guyana¡ Peru and
Mexico. The largest Mayday celebration in Latin America this year was in
Venezuala, where 200,000 wgrkers
took off work to loin a parade through

the streets of

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Because tomorrow is the end

of the old civilizarion.

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all right.',

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They are manipulating oil and armaments
Grain and the fruits of our labour
For evil ends. Really.

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be too late

if we meet in the Stadium

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with gun shots.

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Because this preparation
ls the last we will be allowed.

Don't feel safe!
This is the crisis
For which we have waited.

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Why don't we recognize it?

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It comes disguised as scandal.
It comes as a coup with a game plan.
It comes as a war in the Sinai.
It comes as a crisis and Crystal Night

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to the events of
November 1 1, 'l 938"in Germony when the shoþ

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windows of all Jewish estoblishments were smàshed
leoving the streets strewn with gloss-and when mass
orrests of Jews were mode,

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Stadium is o large sports arena in New york
Clty comporobte to the-Socaor Stad¡um Ìn Santtogo.

-LNS

IRS POLITICAL ATTACK
CAUSES PROPERTY SALE,,
belonging to Gano Peacemakers, lnc.

Don't quiet me. I am preparing
And I need to tremble

Don't silence me. Neruda is silenced
And the cheaters in the Beast's Belly
Are finally finding each other out.

To sing the lnternational
As they decimate our voices

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Caracas.

On May 14 the lnternal Revenue Service posted a notice of sale on property

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Don't say, " lt will

,

One hundred UruguaYan fabor a¡$
student leaders were rounded up', arrested and detained during the last
weeks of April and for the first few

Only rouse me
To action. Today. Tonight.
I will whisper it to you tonight
While we are making loveAnd at breakfast we wíll gather
W¡th all our lovers .
And we will begin the changes.

Tonight.

. ley. This unit m

MAYDAY CELEBRATEÔ
IN URUGUAY
DESPITE MASS ARRESTS

Get out from under.
Those who survive will. be those
Who are not underneath but outside it:
Pushing it over.
We have no enemies:
There is only the crumbling structure
And the People.

Don't calm me. This is the time.

'!--a

It is cr,umbling from above.
Comrades, don't lets get caught
Under the rubble.

Pablo Neruda is silenced. His library
Burned. Shall we convene now?.
Shall we build tunnels under Shea Stadi'um?xx

Thé government in the Beast's Belly

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Follows with the smashing of windows
And the sudden mass arrests and blood
On the street.
Build tunnels now
Under the Stadium!

rl l2 a
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-Judith Malìna
October 22, 1973

recommendations Children's Fund, Box 4432, Berkeley,
for an attack which IRS then followed. Oalifornia 94704; Medical Aid for
Despite exposure of the political
Vietnam, 65a Winthrop Street, Cam-

origin of the assessment and seizure,
bridge, Mass. 021 38; and Mennonitc
.and despite the fact that a checking Central Committee, 27 S.21 Street,
account of one group was used to assess Akron , Pa. 1150'1.
-LNS
another of similar name, IRS has now
proceeded with announcement that
500 DEMONSTRATORS

propertybelonging.foGanpPeace- ttsqIEfl_"qIPLOMACY
OF VIOLENCE"
makers,'lnc. willbe sold.

Members of Gano Peacemakers say Though by"late aftereqon, May 15, the.
that the wholly political origin:t^r*^"" vtuyi!u.r'incident appear'e¿ séttleá
,
a
attack plus the fraudulen:r oj.t_f_"
1tr.sy anã lñough the demoästration was put
ment itself renders the sale.spurious.
togeiher within 24 hours without the
"The IRS has no right t9
Uãünt of aformqtcoatirion organizaflis¡JoryrtV
and therefore has no way toJt:!:f-ï iion, ou.r.500 persons convergõd
on
a righr ro someone. el*,_'_r3i9_u_r_?9t.¡ Íimä, sfuãr. tã piá,tárt-,¡,ni.{ri^r,
person. "Whoever bids or this plgpîïy
iåiiänirt
Anrhony Lewis rermed a
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äi i rãi,j üJ';;'i n' Lå'-

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EMERGENCy AID
NEEDED lN Vl ETNAM

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oo!i'roving

was rhís particula r

column, that WRL phorosrared ir on
back.of peririons to Senaror Sruart ,.
Symington, chairman of the Foreign
Retatiõns óommittee, protest¡ng,;¡Us
military action in Cam'bodia, wñich t

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in
,Fri",ndt_
Service Committee (AFSC) is asking ;;;;ú
iiu"r of óun'U.aa¡¡
people
send aid and also pre¡ure Ãr.iirunr," an¿ ¿emanJ¡ng ;;that
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congress to lift restrictionr
thorough investigation of rtie enrire
llg,Yl
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government has placed on sending NliViSù", incideñt
and the immediaté
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-Emergency medica,l aid is needed
Vietnam, and the An"ll"t:f

materials to Vietnam.
Dayid stic!¡ey, ryho resrified
behatf of AFSC, totd rhesenal"-

us militarv t":'
in Hi'liäfiflll'
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20 miles north of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The notice announced sale on May
28 at the Federal Buílding, Cincinnati;
The property, consisting of a house
and two acres, was bought by a communal group in 1950 and they, in.

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1952, deeded ít to a nonprôfit corpoation, Gano Péacemakers, lnc. Mortgage
was retired in 1960.
The assessment by IRS which led
to the seizure and sale was drawn up
on a checking account of the Peace-

¡ç- FOUND,INNOCENTI!
of the mittions of war
.qY LAWTON
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main in Vietnam ¡,
Aid is needed for the resettlement On Monday, 12 May,1 975, nàæly
of millions of Vietnamese peasants, for four years to the day he was arrestçfl,,

maker Movement, a countrywide'group
with no financial connection with Gano
Peacemakers, lnc.
" Origin of the attack by IRS is exposed on pages222-23 of the repot by
the Senate Subcommittee on Constitu,
tional Rights, December 1974. ln a
memorandum dated Dece.mber 8,'1971,
the Special Service Staff, secrpt intelligence unit operatÍng within lRS, made
prime targets of the Peacemaker Movement and its organ, The Peocemaker,
and the organ's editor, Ernest Brom-

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those who have left Vietnam. . . it.
should be obvious to all that the need

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Gary Lawton was found innocent of.'
the ambush slayings of two Riverside

policemen.
thousands of tons of unexploded
Lawton, a Black Community organizer and member of Vietnam
bombs and mines.
. Five organizations have set up funds Veterans Against the Warlwinter
and have established channels to deSoldier Organization, had undergone
liver emergency assistance to Vietnam. two previous trials which ended in hung
They are : American Friends Service juries.
Committee, 160 N. 15th StreeÇ Phila- After deliberating. for three days, the
delphia, Pa. 19102;Clergy and Laity six-man, six-woman iury announced
Lawton not guilty on theiq first vote.
Concerned, 235 E. 49th Street, NY,
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Despite the acquittal, Lawton iaid
NY 10017'(medical aid to releásed
political prisoners); lnternational that his faith had not been restored in
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and vile as it's ever been," he said, ,,and
there is still a double standard of iustice
one For the rich and one for the pbor.',
Lawton's case had gained national
and intgrnational significance as it became a symbol of political and policé
repression in the United States. Demonstrations, mbbilizations, and fund-raising spread from Southern-California
across the US to include Japan and

Europe.

During the course of the trials more
than 50 supporters had been fined, lost

iobs, or received jail sentences because
of work around the case, still 70 sup-

porters showed-up for closing defense
arguments. The attitude of members
of the defense committee can be
summed up in the words of one of its
members Rusty Bronaugh (who had
lost his job, and undergone two trials
where charges were dropped for his
work on the committee), he said, "The
state's attempts to hold back the people's struggle against repression did not
and can not succeed. People are fighting back and winning!"

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feminists and as revolutionaries. The send delegates from Micronesia and
confererice is seen as a means of furother nations to the UN in attempts to
ther developing these politics and
stop the lune 21 plebescite.
strengthening the organizing work that
ln recognition of our true identity
ís their ongoing pràctice.
as world citizens, Pacífic Life ComFor more information, contact: munity wants to raise money to help
Socialist/Feminist Group, 1309 N.
with the travel expenses of those going
Main St., Dayton, Ohio 45405.
to the üN. The money must be ralsed-News Desk immediately. You can send your
checks.ro rhe WRL/WTR odce, 33ias

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nucleor weapons testing in the PacÌfìc.
Laurie Raymond (Seattle). & J ìm
D.ougloss-(Vonco¿iler, BC) ottended
this conference in Fiji. We ore preporing a special report that will cover
the Conference for s Nuclear Free
Pocifìc, US militarism in the Pacifìc
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Feminist Conference will be not only
to share local experíences and organizing practice butialso to discuss how
women integrate socialism and feminism to challenge institutions and effect
radical social change.
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With placards saying "There's.Blood
on the. Grapes," and ,rBoycott
Gailo
Wine,." som-e 3000 p"rron,
,"r-"f,"ã ¡n
New York from 59th Street to ú;iori'
square on May 10. The demohstration
climaxed Farm Workers Week, observed
by the United Farm Workers ín 70
localities throu,ghout the US and

ment with Trident ond with our
Canada.
friends in the Pacifìc. lüe hope to have
Some 30 unions supported the New
it out soon, However, one item cannot York marc-h, A threat by District Joint
wait untìl the report ¡s mo¡led-the pos- Council 16 of the Teamsters to nónsible US take-over (for mititory pur.cooperate in the fut.ure with unions supposes) of Tinion, one of .the Ñoithern porting the Farm Wôrkers, drew no

Marionost;tan$inMìcronesio.
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Today, the biggest issue in

Military-the us Military

Marianas lslands that the entire island
of rinian be turned over to the American Military, and a massive military

facility.be constructe.d there. There
are indications that the Department of
Defense approved that a giant Air
Force and Naval Base be

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there.
The effectiveness of the Gallo boy.
cott aiound New york was indicated
by thefact thatGallo ran full page ads
in the New York rimes a couple ãf
days before the march and, aJain, a
couple of
.days after. ln reóeni mônths,
the Farm workers have been concentrat¡ng on Gailo rather than on grapes
and lettuce. The grape harvest siaris in

on the island and that the people would early June.
either be,employed at the.base or
Themarch ended with a rally at
moved off the island to relocate later. union square at which spokeipersons
The us exer.cises joint administra- for a number of unions pledeed their
tion with the uN in Micronesia. How- su2port of the Farm wort again¡_t uS interests. on June.21, 1975, speakers included Bella Abzug, Gloria
the us has ordered that a plebescite steinem and Dorothy oay. r¡im peck

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Tinian, to decide whether or not
Marianas will be separated permanently The trial of susan Saxe, arrested in
from the rest of Micronesia. The uS
Philadelphia March 27 on charges of
military want to make sure that the
bank robbery, murder and inteistate
growing independence movement does flight, will begin June 9 in'philadelphia.
not ruin their chances to secure the
Saxe, along with Katherine Pbwer who
Marianas as a permanent military
is still at laige, had been soçrght by the
stronghold in the Plcific.
FBI for foui-and-a-half yearifor al-

The people on,Tinian are informed, legedly participating in a Boston bank
and will not vote for the separation, holdup in which a guard was killed.
but many of the other islands are not
Poiice:had harasied lesbiãn:and
prepared-on some, the proposal has other women's movement groups for
not even been tr¿nslated into the local [everal months before saxe-'s arrest,
language.
àllegedly in,search of information ábout
Delegates to the Conference for a
theãvowed feminist's whereabouts.
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its way into the city despite masStve Ob- WOMAN
CUB
jections by community resi dents.
KICKËD OUT OF PACK
Amidst waving American flags,
to cooperate with the dragnet investi- "Y ankee Doodle" whistling and a PBC
Twenty-one cub scouts, in Jessup, Mary*The'Guardian
gation
banner with the traditional coiled
land were kicked.out of the national
+- snake and "Don't Tread on Me"
scouting organization because their
slogan, 50 people then pledged support pack lead er was
a woman.
ANN ARBOR¡TES LYNCH
'to a statement of food rights and
P1"! 471was disçnfrançhised in
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RONALD McDONALD
grievances. The statement called for
March because cub scout biiaws re. FOR BICENTENNIAL
the right of peop le to adequate, unquire pack leaders to be men, said a
polluted food at fair prices and quoted
spokevnan for the Boy Scouis of
The Ann Arbor People's Bicentennial
from Connecticu t price-fixing legislaAmerica.
Committee (PBC) m arked the annition of 1776:
"This policy of hav ing men in feadêr.
versary of the "shot heard róuhd the
"The rapid and exorbitant rise upon ship roles is based
world" in late April by challenging the
on many studies,,'
the necessaries and conveniences of
he said, defending the decísion. ."4
McDonald's fast food corporation.
'' life. . .is chiefly occassioned by
strong male presence is requires as cubRonald McDonald was huÍrg in
monopolizers, that great pest of
master.
effigy on a "Liberty Tree" outside.';the
society, who prefer their own private
-LNS
Maynard Street construct¡on site uihere
gain to the interest and safety of their
the company has managed to muscle
country. "
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coNFEREN.E FoR

soctAL¡sT/FEM tN |STS ORGANTZE JULY 4 CONFERENCE us miritary rake.over
All around the country women aie òrganízing to change their lives: women
are beginning childcare'centers, fighting
for abortion, organizing unions, creating a new culture. At a national conference on socialist/feminism, )uly 4
6, hundreds of such women will come

Lexington, Ky., for refusing to cooper'

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knowing that in Vietnam thèy call it
Ho Chi M¡nh City! lr'll take the
American'press a few years to catch
up with what is really happening in

.' the world, but it will, it will. lt'll be
forced to. There are rumblings of discontent right here in the United States
coming from working people that even
the unions can't handle. The recent
"Morch for Jobs Now" held ín DeeCee was as moving and powerful as any.
demonstration this writer has ever attended, as well as one of the most misrepresented. Working people on the
march (there were 75,000 of.them)
are a potentially greatnr threat to the
stability of the capitalist system than
thousands of college students demonstrating on campus, and so the press
reflected the interest of the class that
owns it by distorting its reporting of
the events at the rally. Yes, Hubert
Humphrey, that war criminal of old,
had to cut short his speech (which
was, I must admit, a rare occurence for
Humphrey) due to the militance of
people in the crowd. The press reported
that fact correctly. But, as usual, no-

body asked why Happy Hubert had
any right to talk to workers about unemployment. When was the last time
he had to scrape for grocery money;
. stand in an unemployment line, or--

contemplate applying for welfare. The
people who marched, a wildly mixed
groupof young and old, black & white,
employed andrunemployed, had come
to be heard, not to be lectgred to. They

Columbia. . . . .Making and publíshing
poetry that will "serve the'advance of
the second American revolution" is the
reason for the existence of the Sniyrna
Press. One of their most recent antholwere heard, one hopes, by people with
ogies, Three Red Stors is genuinetv
similar feelings around the country,
refreshing and literate, and they hope
possibly sparking an idea fgr many,
to do more. They're looking for sub- '
many such marches around the counmissions from people who may be
tly. . . ..Check out your local bookshop caught in the bind of being too politi-' i
for a new book on the writings of
cal to be accepted by the literary maga-lUoody Guthrie from his days as a
zines and too literate for the politicali
Colpmnist for the West Coast ComThey want to hear fiom writers at ùhê,,./
munist Party Newspaper, The'People's
Smyrna Press, Box 841, Stuyvesant
World. lt's called "Woody Says" (the
Station, New York, NY 10009. . . . .
title of his column) and is published
The New American Movement, a socialby Grosset and Dunlop. Pete Seeger.
ist organization, will be having its yearrecommends it, so how can you go
ly. convention August 6-10 at Oberlin,
wrong?.....If you're used to thinking Ohio. F9r r¡ore info, write the NAM
in terms of American war'machine, . national office at 1 643 MilwauÈep.Ave.,
you might not think of Cqnoda as a
Chicago, lll. 60647.. . . . The People's
milítaristic country. But there are
Porty will also be having a national '.' .
some Canadians who are concerned
convention this fall. The FP is also a
about it, and with good reason. Acsocialist group, and will be meeting
cording to the Ad Hoc Committee to
over Labor Day weekend in September
End Militarism in Canada, there is a
to nominate provisional candidates for
real question as to who their governa socialist presidential campaign. For
ment is defending them from. lt it's
details, and a free three mohth trial
from the US, the committee asks, why
subscription to the party's newspaper,
does the Canadian government regularGrass Roots, drop a line to the People's
ly allow B.52.practise flights over
Party,1404 M Street NW, Thomas
Canadian territory or storage of AmerCircle, Columbia 20005. . . .Thar's
ican nuclear warheads in Canada. For
about it for now. Keep on sending in
more information, write for a copy of
those donations 6 lA I N ; otherwi3e this
the committee's newsletter at3965
column will just end up ín the dead letPandora Street, North Burnaby, British ter office.
-Brian Doherty
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An Autobiography by jonah Raskin / Links Books I 216
PP., $4.95 paperback
Many peopie do not havc long-time fr'iends. For so many
peoplc, friends tend to come and go, so I consider myself
fortunate to have a few people in mv life whose friendship
has lasted for'15 years or more. The author of this autobingraphical book is one of those old friends. Both of us have
to use a well-worn but apt phrase; "gone through many '
changes" in these 15 years. But something very mçaningful
and solid endures. Nevertheless, it is a very strange eipelience for me to be a charàcter in this book (undei the name
Tony Meyer), and a diffìcult task for me to review the bookto look at it both as a friend and as a "critic.,'
Thcrc is probably one predominant reason that Jonah
Raskin and I have remained friends for so long. lt is the
same reason why I have such warm feelings about much of
this book. lt is the simple fact that Jonah and I have a
defìnite sense of coming from a small, unique, vital comrirunity-we are both "red diaper babíes." '
. We both entered college in the late 1950's, in the waning
years of McCarthyism, aware and usually proud of our
parents' bravery.and commitment. Perhaps we did not know
very much about the Communist Party, or even our parents'
precise relationship to the Party, but we knew that our
parents and'other "progressives" believed in ,,good cãuses,"
including workersr rights, racial equality and socialism. We
shared those beliefs and brought them with us in 1958 or
1959 to the apoli.tical campus of Columbia University. We
.also brought with us a sense of belonging to apersecuted
minprity; being a red,in the 1950's was sometimes scary
and lonely, and we quickly found each other (often wiih the
help of folksy hootenannies where if you knew certain songs
it meant something else beyond the music). ln this book,
Jonah transmits some seìse of this community (though he,
unlike ine, had ambivalent feelings and sometímes sa* hi.red background as a source of alienation and hassle more
than a source of pride).
ln Out of the Whale, lonah tells about his life, about his
early days as a red diaper baby, about the symbolic importance of the RosenberÊ case, about our attempts to bring
gglillcs to the Columbia campus at the'begìnriing of the'1960's, about his.choice of a career as an Ënglisliprofessor,
about the Columbia strike and his transformát¡on'from
"Jonaht' to."Jomo," about his marriage and friends and
mother-in-law, and all the transforma--tions from then to
now-all with an upbeat message. The concluding words of '
the book promise that Jonah will "be standing íñ the shade
of the tree, the tree of life and liberty, with friends, relations, rnothers,.children, lovers, brothers on the earth, on
this land that's our own."
There are, of course, red diaper babies who feel indifferent or even hateful toward their pasts. But fOr those of
us who are still in some way politicålly-minded, our Old
Left background provides us with an important and vital
thread to historv.
How we looli at that thread is very important, and here I
find myself in disagreement with Jonãh. He has j basically
romantic view of his political life,-his roots, and tfre peõpie
with whom he has interacted. Now, I can share that ro
mance up to a point-the emotional surge that comes with a
sense of one's role in socialist history, fõr example_but
Jonah's romantization goe_s too far. iÁ tf¡e prorérr, his people become paper thin and unreal; they eiist ontyio fdtfitt
his romantic fantasies. Their real feelings and reai lives are
lost in the process of glorifying a politiðal ffadition.
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For me, the transformation from Old Left to New Left
it was painful and confusing, emotionally and.intellectually. I made many discoveries about
the Old Left, and much of it was ugly. Some of it-like my
parents' naivete and eventual disillusionment (largely due to
the fact that they came to the Farty as workers and unionists, and not as middle-class intellectuals)-was profoundly !
sad. For Jonah, the transformation from Old Left to New
Left occurs too easily. lt is somehow not serious.
Jonah (perhaps like his parents) wishes, conveniently, to
forget about the lies, the violence, the authoritarian manipulations. He writes blithely that the "Old Left World. . . had
retreated. Except for obviously enjoying the more militant and hedonistic aspects of the New Left (guerillas
and street-fighting, and sex and dope), Jonah does not
seem to have an appreciation for the Nãw Left as a li'beratory political response to the failed Old Left. lonah's nostalgia for the old Left, his initial mistrust of the New Lefr,
as disturbing, especially now since much of the energy of :
the New Left has been re-channeled (by red diaper bãbiesi)
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into_Old Left ways of thinking (as in the latest writings bf
the Revolutionary Union, the Octobei League,'and, yãs, the
Weather Underground). I do not doubt forã mínutô'thalit
is my homosèxuality and my involvement with gay libera.
tion which has proyided me with the experiences and the insights crucial to breaking firmly with an Old Left perspective.
. - Jonah seems to avoid his feelings often in order to keep
his narrative smooth and his characters uncomplicated, Hè
does not, for example, describe the animosity between himself and 'rStella," the w¡fe of his best f¡.iend Peter Gordon.
So Stella, an interesting and complex personality.(and a
"liberal" politically), remains faceless. Jonah, quite obviously, simply does not know her.
Jonah's feelings about me ur a'homos.^ual are similarly

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intolerance. He criticized evervone who rcpeated afagiole
ano oemuiåàlu't"i *.
ãriti"íL ót"ple who told ¡okes
"rpããbr' wt o tord anti"uoui-r'o'ã'.";;i;,;;;;;;i;riø
Semitic or anti-black iokes."
lf my comins out meant anvthine to lonah on an emo'
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settings-that I must, in any case, recommend the book and
affirm the fact thàt I very much enfoyed reacling it.
-Allen Young

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Jonah never communicated to me any prior. feelings he
had about ho¡nosexualitv' ar any earlier experiences wltn
gav people. lonur, ãðãiiåtseË; tJu. r*utt of how with'
drawn ahd sítent he ñ;; b;;;;
l"rron. yer, he díd have
some.thing to,share t.,th;;.ïh;ãlr-,ìTor,"*ho
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best
friends
from high school.
Jonah's
Tom, writes Jonah, ',was"s stvlish,dre$spr, carried a silver
cigarette case," and pollected'reåords of Billie Holliday,
Edith Piaf and iazz mus¡c¡ani. tcni. had aeirlfriend named
Sandy: "Tom put on Sandy'l cloth'ing, hãislips, bras, and
makeup and.Sandy wore Tôm's.trdusãrs, shiri and tie."
One day in Greenwich Villaee. lonah'was with Tom
when Tom bought a copy of H"owí.
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Tom later entered a Franciscan monastery.
Where is Tom now? lf he were my good friend from high
school, I'd want to know.

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PhD and all, who grapples constantly with the possible con'
tradictions of his chosen profession and his revolutionary
political beliefs. Hg is now lþing in Mexico and is writing.an
authorized biography of B. Traven, the late ex patriate nóvelist (Treosure of the Sierra Madre)-and presumably the same

excised. I came out to Jonah and hjs wife "Sheila,' some-'
time in '1967;itwas a coming out that lacked the bpnefrtof gay liberation, though I had reached, by myself,
benetit oT gay l¡beration, though I had reached, by myself,
the point of basic self-acceptance and part-time integration
into the "gay qcene." Jonah relates this comirlg gut.in his
chapter about the Columbia strike of 1968, when both of
us spent a lot of time together in the Fayerweather Hall oc-

contradictions whirl about in his head'
The process of Jonah's contradiøtory infatuation with
and aljenation frcjm academia is described eloquently, especially when he tells about the time he was arrested at a
demonstration and brutally beaten up by two New York
City policemen. But l,think most of us who have broken'
with structured, careei-oriented pasts are confronted nowa'
àays Uy a sense of crisis. Despite his insistence that the ex'
oeíienðe of writing the book was "painful or embarrassing,"
ìonah makes his life choices seem too simple and easy.
' A political theme running through part of the book
focusès on Jonah's wife and-in particular her decision to
iãin ttre Weather Underground. .lonah refuse-d-to go "down
lndrt" with her, but evõn so hií rejection of the Weather
Únderground is offset by a curious'romantization of it.
ionah also never makes lt quite clear to what extent the
ieminist movement has infllenced his life and the lives of
his friends
Some people may feel that writins an autobiography at
tonáh's age (early 30's) is an exercise-in egotism. I strongly
'dit^gr"", and feel that the lives of real people make good
reading at any age..
'"*ñiy'itrongestbbiection to this book rests not with the
idea that ¡t is an autobiogtupt u.-h-riâther that it is a
prrotagonisií_the
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author and the politihe
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to. My wish is for a líttle more
milieu
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cupation "commune":
"ln the lobby I loóked for Tony Meyer, my old roommate from Central Park West. He had just resigned from the
lilashingto'n Post and loined Liberatioó News Service. ln
September, before he started to work as a reporter and be
fore I started teaching at Stony. Brook, we had bought
herringbone tweed suits at Halstead's men's ihop, new suits
for new professionals, new.images. But after two months, after ayear in Brazil, he confessed to Sheila and.me that he
was a homosexual, that he had been â homosexual since high
school and throughout college. ln Rio de laneiro, thousands
of miles away from his friends and parents, he had lived
openly for the.first time. ln Fayerweather he was still a
closet homoselual, but the door was beginning to open,
and he was starting to emerge from hiding. We sat down
together and"he remembered painfully the antifag jokes that
we had made for years. Tony was a red and a fag, an under.ground fag in an underground culture, repressed by both
the old arld the new left.
,"Emma IJonah's mothei-in-law] had always said that
fags in the movement were liabilities because they could be
blackmailed by the FBl. 'They'll inform on radical friends,'
she said, 'rather than be exposed as homosexuals.'
"My father was afraid that Adam IJonah's youngest
brother] and KurtThomases Ianothèr old friéndl were hav'
ing a homosexual relationship; they spent long weekends together, and Kurt took hundreds of photograpñs of Adam.
Sam IJonah's father] wanted to foreclosðany incipient
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"Tony condemned both Emma and my father for their

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expcctecl to. perf.orm aL a '
godlike rate. Woe unto the iock who lets his emotional life
get ín the way. Robots aren't supposed to have foelings.
Bearing that in mind¡ former racedriver Dan Gerber has
delved into hìs own sport and come up with a novel that
strips away the sickening machismo and reveals a man,ås
schizoid and lost as the rest of us. The protagonist, Roger,
reads T.S. Eliot, drinks stdaight.tequila, has nightmares lhat
re-gularly awaken him at 4 am and is at the relentlcss mercy
of the Amef ican Dream.
When he's not driving a turbocharger at speeds of up to
200 miles per hour, Roger's life is in shambles. The on-track
speed is offset by a heavy case of ennui elsewhere, a drifting
toward a wífe he really doeg not know, and a
.'itrdifference
'-nagging
fèeling that though at the top'of his profesiion, he's
actually nowhere. While sitting in.a,bar, forlornly listening
to a jukebox, it occurs to him that "life waS'ã dead-end
street, a cul de soc that provided no choice but to park your'.
car and wait it out or to U-turn and regres's."
But hè can't go back. lt's too late and he knows it. At
the end of each race he consíders retireme.nt, only the
thought is mere fantasy, as is his dream of someday owning
a farm with a trout stieain running through it. He's lost thò
capacity to make decisions for himself.
Reasons why can be found 'in the nature of autoracing
Gerber tells us. He should know, for he himself was once
ranked an American driving staf of the future before a ìrear-

ln this society sports heroed

sexual?'he asked.
1"1 guess it's all iight,' I said.
"'All the great writers were homosexuals-like Oscar

Wilde,'Tom said.
"'Do you have to be 4 homosexual to be a writer?'

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faial.accident forced hi¡n to turn to the "subtler hazards of
writing and poetry," asrthe liner notes describe.
ln racing the primary product is a million-dollar machine,
and numerous companies vie for the superior mechanical "
monster. The driver is the guinea pig, an insirument of a
'system in the utter embrace of madness. A quick example- .
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titled Miss. This time Miss Pure Oil does ihe honors. Nexr :
time he wonders if ¡t might be Miss Lube Job or Miss Emis- ,
sion Control.
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vears it was almost like going to work in à sawmill or an ác'
áounting firm, another motel,'another rented car, the same
olaces every year as if the year were a series of places as
well as a seiies of weeks' The same faces, ihe same banter;
the same nervous yawns' like a popular.tune you didn't care
for but couldn't get oqt of your head."
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her loss. He's too tired of taking orders from his managerr",
'too tired of being a plaything in the hands of a sportiqg public he loathes, As Woody Allen said in jest-but here is meant
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',like.a foreign country," takes his life. Symbolically, the
Goodyear blimp floats away from his final race, headed to
next week's "big" spectacle. The system has nó pity.
The a,uthor? He.got out in time and fulfilled Roger's
fantasy. He's now.living on a farm in Michigan, is al astrononiy buff, a.nd considers himself an exp"ert'in split-rail
.fence construction'
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