cops of killing a black. ABOUT 3,600 National Guard troops and an equal number of cops have occupied this city's black community.
sixteen almost all black, have killed.
About have wounded, about 1,000 seen anece The only confirmed death of a white in the area. rebellion is a cop who dropped dead of a heart attack. Six cops were reportedly wounded gunfire, none critically. white was dragged from his car, beaten, and then reportedly run over.
People in the area told a black reporter that the man's car was stopped after he and a passenger had fired at people.
Officials confirm thirteen deaths of blacks. They died at the hands of cops and racist killers in civilian garb who sped by the edges of black areas.
Cops killed two black men as suspected "looters'. gunnca cown a Halla Imal they asserted had tried to run over a cop.
Two cops snot a man who approached a National Guard checkpoint on a bicycle supposedly voiced his opinion of the occupiers. proached him and, they say, he lunged at one with a knife. They pumped a half dozen pistol and rifle shells into his body. Witnesses insist they saw no knife.
The Miami authorities ruled within twenty-four hours that the cops had acted department 'deadly guidelines. They were returned to the street. 17-21 May? The British press have tried to portray the black rebellion as a racist outbreak, with blacks intent on killing whites, and then killing each other in bizarre rituals. As usual, the media version is far from the truth. Harry Ring of the US socialist paper The Militant gives a graphic account of the Miami rebellion, sparked off by a court decision to acquit four white killed a man allegedly try aro A private security loot a food market. fourteen-year-old black was killed when a white-driven pickup sped by and the driver people, put two bullets in his head. been A thirty-four-year-old man died when another pickup went been by a group of blacks and fired have into the crowd.
Two other black men were seriously wounded when four whites in a pickup raced by and fired at them.
Many people in the comuniby ty are convinced that these shootings have been by out-ofuniform cops. Savagery The savagery of the police occupiers was indicated Sunday night when city cops assigned to guard a shopping center in the black community systematically vandalized fourteen cars parked there. They slashed tires and upholstery and smashed in painted looter and this ray wind-shields. Then they They the sides of the cars.
The rebellion Saturday 17 May after an all-white Tampa jury freed the cops who murdered McDuffie. The verdict came in at 2.36pm. Youth poured into and At eight o'clock that night some 7,000 people gathered at the County Justice for a protest demonstration.
The outraged crowd carned placards that declared 'Justice in America is a Damn Lie' 'Where is Justice for the Black Man in America?' Front the 'Justice' Building people marched to the nearby within Dade County Public force' l resear County cops who murdered McDuffie and many others. tent on provoking the crowd.
Rose Ogden, Workers Party candidate for US Senate, says she saw several squad cars deliberately through the crowd. Later it was reported that a black girl had her foot run over by a squad car WilleSse through 'like a bat out of hell'.
glass building.
peared and attack dogs.
Rebellion Fires sprawling black community for three nights. On Sunday night alone, officials major fires.
Residents police gunfire.
at white-owned that the only black businesses that suffered were adjacent to white-owned ones.
Speak, covered half the city of Miami.
bus suspended.
three days.
Many shut down early so their black employees before the curfew.
began on federal - suddenly their tune about quarter of a Arthur who suffer grinding poverty in the midst of opulence.
to assert that he had marched during Building demonstrations of the '60s.
Justice and denly discovered there is a shortage of justice, jobs, and bous. ing in the black community. He also confided Safety 'We've got Vietnam there. may enough.'
Socialist
drive said People smashed in the plate Brutality window of the police Squads of SWAT cops apThey Washington on charged in with clubs, tear gas, ! went, on the air to assure, serious investigated.' Miami's rebellion was on.
raged through the the reported ficials say. responded to The fires were clearly aimed ment businesses.
All of Miami was affected.
the curfew area community.
service was Schools were shut down for businesses had to advising productive'.
Officials — local, state, and changed Root this city's million ship the gaudiest The governor went on TV civil rights Afghanistan.' Olympics, Mayor Maurice Ferre suddecided to to reporters: cops, hc Ten thousan 1..et BOI the ocho At the Dade County Jail in nearby Florida City, prisoners relusca to work and stagca a protest after officials tried to deny them the right/to watch TV coverage of the rebellion.
displayed placard that read Let us support our people outside and improve our conditions inside.' Attorney Genéral Benjamin Civiletti flew to Miami from Monday. He 'All allegations involving civil rights and brutality will be A federal grand jury was scheduled to convene on the 21 May. It will consider indicting killer-cops federal Civil Rights Act. Such a process will take weeks, ofMeanwhile, they hope the promise of a possible indictwill help cool things down. What they will then do about the killer-cops remains to be seen. The same is true, of pledges of new-found concern for the problems of the black Major national figures of the civil rights movement also converged here. Former United Nations envoy Andrew Young was shouted down at the community rally when he started the victims of cop brutality that 'violence is not Southern Christian LeaderConference President, Joseph Lowery, got at some of the root of the matter when he •President Carter should come to Miami. I think the crisis is in America, not in Instead of worrying about Afghanistan and Iran and trying to boycott the be addled, should be boycotting the Klan, racism, and unemployment.' When the rulers of this area chancrate the bilier they apparcatly 1 were going to As of sos, it's were last week denied entry visas to the United States. Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist is currently being performed in London's West End.
The trip to the US by Fo and Rame was 'not opportune', according to the American Consul in Milan. The US im. migration authorities had originally approved their applications for visas, but this was countermanded by the State Department. Fo and Rame were due to appear in New York at the first festival of Italian theatre. Germany WITHIN the last two weeks the Soviet Union has completed the withdrawal of an armed division of about 10,000 soldiers and 350 tanks from East Germany.
Western intelligence officials withdrawal at a press conference in Berlin on Saturday.
The next day Jimmy Carter said in an interview on American television that he would never propose any reduction of US troops strength in Europe.
Said Carter: 'We've got about 300,000 American service people in Europe... would not advocate the cutting of those troops at all.' USA A personal diary kept by President Harry S Truman during World War II has just been discovered in Indiana. Notable are remarks Truman made about the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.
In one diary entry, Truman seemed to think the bomb was the fulfilment of some biblical prophecy. He wrote: 'We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesied im the Euphrates Valley era, after Noah and his fabulons ark.' In another entry Truman declared: 'Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop this terrible bomb on the old capital (Kyoto) or the new (Tokyo)?
So instead he dropped it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Al least 160,000 people died in the two explosions.
Germany IN A report issued last week, Amnesty International attack. ed the treatment of 'terrorists' in West German prisons.
The human rights organisation said that many of the prisoners were held in solitary or near-solitary confincancel or under close observation in special 'silent wings'.
In 'silent wings' lights are on constantly and almost al noise is blotted out. The West German government declared that it 'rejected' Amnesty's criticism.
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