The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 70, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1971 Page: 6 of 16
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Wed. Mareh 24, 1971
Looking Ahead
I'M NOT GETTING A CLEAR PICTURE!
Try and Stop Mo
Editorial
I-By BENNETT CERF—
TNCOMPARABLE violin virtuoso Mischa Elman practice*
1 to this day faithfully at least two hours out of every
twenty-four. As he explains, “If I don’t practice, the first
night I notice it; the sec- ^
ond night the critics no- ^
tice it; the third night, Tt .
^ Public."
IT IS CURIOUS, and somewhat troubling, that the
U.S. Justice Department has chosen to indict policemen
—and only policemen—in connection with continuing
friction between the Los Angeles police department and
Mexican-American militants.
The policemen in question are charged with violation
of federal civil rights statues in the handling of sus-
pects. We do. not know whether these Indictments are
justified, and we do not intend tb prejudge issues which
must be determined in court.
i! INSTALLMENT PLAN
REVOLUTION
[ There are distressing things
happening in California, but
there are other things happen-
1 ing which are encouraging to
people who have been studying
i the so - called revolutionary
movement that has attracted
so many American youth. We
haven't lost a generation of
American youth — yet; nor
has the Communist-inspired and
| Communist-directed revolution-
i ary movement become powerful
j onjugh — yet — to make its
i big move toward overthrowing j
1 the American system. We spent
i enough time in California re-
j een.ly to get an accurate ap-
i pra.sal, we think, of many as-
] poets of the problem. And it is
1 the problem — probably the
i top-priority problem affecting
j the future of every American
j citizen,
j In the universities and the
i so-called ghettoes and city j
! sireets of California the wide-1
i spread, now nationwide ‘stu- j
I dent unrest’’ began; and this ;
, is where the Black Panthers,
j the Revolutionary Union and j
, other Communist-inspired move-
I ments first surfaced. Chief E.
, M. Davis of the Los Angeles
Police Department, surely one
of the best informed law en-
forcement officials in America,
says that Communists are work-
ing within every minority group j
in America and have been sue- j
cessful so far in conducting “re- j
volution on the installment
plan.” |
Communists Busy
"1 do not believe in just get-
ting information from my in-
telligence sources and just put-
ting together a professional
judgment after 30 years of ex-
perience,” he says, ’’but I sent
teams of Mexican American
and black and white policemen
out and did public opinion sur- i
veys in those communities. In j
the Mexican-American com-
munity of Los Angeles, about
15 per cent of the people at- 1
tributed the big disorders that
When the late British
star, the once beautiful but
difficult Mrs. Patrick
Campbell, refused to come
to America for the film * f*~_ I
version of Bernard Shaw's r — J
• Pygmalion,” because that 1
would have meant putting fl 4 , J
her evil-tempered Pekinese j.-, I' ■ J
in a kennel for six months, .......■ 1 * T .......f"
the exasperated Mr. Shaw
wrote her, “For hcaven’a
sake, when that wretched '1
peke of yours is killed by an automobile or perishes in t.;• count
of nature, buy a giant panda or a giraffe or a water buffalo, an/
of which you can take anywhere.”
In her declining years, Mrs. Campbell’s fortune wae dissipated*
but until her sorry demise, she continued feeding her wretched
dog expciAive food she no longer could afford for bereelf.
OVERHEARD: . . .
Jack Martin r “Show roe a tyke who'* eaten too much caste*
loupe, and I’U show you a melon colic baby.” ■
What troubles us, and is an appropriate matter for
comment at this time, is that the Justice Department
apparently has decided that all wrong lies on the side
of the police department and none on the side of mili-
tants who have kept the Mexican-American community!
in a state of turmoil in recent months. This is the tenta-
tive conclusion to be drawn from the fact that the Jus-;
tice Department is prosecuting policemen, but none of ;
the instigators of recent riots and disorders.
The latter are reported to be well known to Justice!
Department officials. Government agents were on the
scene, and if they worked as hard investigating riot lead-'
ers as they did investigating the police, they must have !
sufficient evidence to support indictments. Yet no action i
has been taken.
Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. Davis charges!
that the police indictments, in contrast ter the Justice |
Department's failure to indict riot organizers, are a!
political ploy by the Nixon administration for support
from minority groups. We fervently hope he is wrong,
for such a maneuver would corrupt the judicial system
and play into the hands of America’s enemies. It also
would insult the majority of Mexican-Americans who
want nothing to do with the violent few.
Yet, so long as the Justice Department pursues this
one-sided policy, the suspicion that our “law and order”
President is shifting strategy cannot be discounted;
completely.
SPACE PACE
“In every movement that
comes along to improve the lot
of the black people or Mexican
Americans or Puerto Ricans or
even the ‘Lib’ movement with
women, or the ecological move-
ment, we see the same names
and faces (Communists) moving
in, taking over and trying to
cause trouble on whatever the
issue is; so that altogether, they
can take over a segment at
some time and if they can ever
wire them all up together and
get enough people at one time,
then (theyi can come off with
a revolution.
Terror Tactics
There are great universities
in America, sections of great
cities, where the residents and
even the police are afraid to
are ineffective, then in effect, I en tile Negro populai
you can more easily accom-j pa„therf wrc vicious
phsh your revolution. That is i . . ..
the direction in which we have i Were feared* Now ,ha'
been heading for gom* time " i th« Panther leadership
We talked to the top intelli-! or under indictment, i
genre people In the Public Dls- not commaivl the f
order Division of Chief Davis’ following they had a 3
far-flung operation, housed in They still attrac. a sm
their own headquarters-building rity of Negroes, but th
on Georgia Avenue not far from now arises from their i
downtown Los Angeles. Present s form of hero-worshi;
were Black, Brown and White the grada-set 00! md
intelligence of’icers. They have Negroes.”
their fingers on the puise-be.it The biggest threat, to
of the various Negro. White and urity of Los Angeles
Mexican communities. They are California and the nat
keenly aware ol the Commurv- centered, these LA p
ist work among the minority teUigence n.en feel, w
groups, and they have been in radical ;nuth moverm
almost h;:rtd-to-hand combat bracing all colors an
with the Black Panther move- Many youth arc being
ment for the three years snd a in guerilla warfare,
half of its ex-stence. tage, in terror tactics,
The Danger: Tenth thorities know that sot
“The Panthers out here no, ers are continuing to
longer constitute the greatest j munist-trained in Cuba,
danger," said one of the Negro young revolutionaries,”
Intelligence officers, and the Briggs, chief of Inte
circle of men In the Intelli- “ahe individually more
genre Chief’s office nodded in ous than the Panther
agreement
Soviets In Caribbean
American
at Guantanamo and printed in the New York Times.
The Russian naval advance into the Caribbean and
the buildup of forces In that area, including the Gulf of
Mexico, probably presages the same sort of presence in
these waters the Russians have established in the Medi-
terranean. Today in the Med every U.S. warship is cons-
tantly tracked by a Soviet naval fleet of over forty ships.
The Russian Navy first moved into the Caribbean in
the summer of I960 and though Washington believes an
understanding exists between Russia and the United,
States that Russian missile submarines will not be ser-
viced in Cuba, there’s no doubt among U.S. naval offi-
cials that the Russians already have a base capable of
such activity in Cuba.
And many feel it is only a matter of time until the
Russians do what they wish in these waters, as far as
naval operations are concerned. The Russians are thus1
giving the United States the same naval attention we
have Jong given Russia. And the day is apparently not;
far away when the United States will be ringed by both
Pussian missile subs and missile crusiers, in the Atlantic,;
Gulf of Mexico and pacific, a sobering realization.
Th* Soviet Union launched a record M apeoa mtealona Mi
1970 compared with,28 mlstion* for (ho Ut, aaaeadtapt*
a compilation by Space Business Dally. The Soviet record
wa* nearly 10 percent more then Re prmtoos M0i fta 1SSS
of 74 mission*, and needy 190 percent greater than Vie
U.S. mission rat* In 1970. Th* number at US. apaee mte-
•ion* la declining at a ffme when the Soviet Union la ac-
celerating Ha space exploratog pngna,
DAILY CROSSWORD
39. Appear 8. Cordia
40. Threefold greetii
41. Medical (4wds
fluids 9. Appro
DOWN
3. Unrequited
lover's
burden
2 City in
Nebraska
3. Greeting
cordially
(2 wds.)
4. Before
5. Terrified
6. Lion
trainer
7. Brazilian
tree
ACROSS
1. Big book
5. Leas fresh
11. Actor,-
Sharif
12. "Scarface”
18. —— over
the coals
14. Actress,
--Blake
15. ’twixt phi
and psl
16. Before
(prefix)
17. Odin or
Eros
18. Boxer’s
trainer
20. Three
(prefix)
23. Turned
to the right
22. Ascend
23. Imitated
a crow
28. Held the
stopwatch
on
26. Beyond
27. Old-time
Venetian
ruler
28. Wire
measure-
ment
29. Porch
32. Moccasin
33. Viva
torero!
34. Bard's
’’over”
35. Right now
(2 wds.)
37 Regarding
(2 wds.)
38. Attack
(2 wds.)
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One letter simply stand* for another, in this stmala a is
used for th* three L’», X for the two O'*, etc, Single letters
apostrophes, the length and formation of ths word* art all
hints. Each day the cod* letter* art different.
A Cryptogram Quotation
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Uryptoqnote! THE COURSE OF THE SEASONS
IS A PIECE OF CLOCKWORK WITH A CUCKOO TO cm.
Vi HEN IT IS SPRING,—LICHTENBHJRG
MD Vni Kin* Ftsturos Syndicate. In*.)
They reached the
height of their power in the
Negro communities a year ago.
Their power then, except among
the very young Negroes, was
basid on the r ability to fright-
the revolutionary youth, such a I menace *0 the security of mil
force could become • terrible' country,” Lt Briggs sakL
SCANDAL COULD
DISPATCH CORRKMK
FROM KAUPUP AS
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(WEAPON WHEN YOU
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27. Obliterate
29. Out-
spoken
30. Inhibit
31. Redolencs
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a discussion.
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Prentice, D. L. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 70, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1971, newspaper, March 24, 1971; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth703404/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.