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In the June 1969 edition of R G r a r t s , Kathleen Cleaver writes about her husband, Eldridge and his misfortune. Briefly summarized Eldridge, after serving many years in various California prisons, was paroled in December 1966 and shortly thereafter affiliated himself with parts Magazihe, Black Panther Party, and Peace % Freedom Party, becoming their presidential candidate in August 19G8 beating out Dick Gregory and Dr. Spock). Prbcipally because of his Black Panther activities, culminating in the 28th Street shoot- out with Oakland police on 6 April 1068 in which a confederate was killed (Bobby Hutton), Cleaver's parole was revoked and on September 27, 1968, he was ordered by the court to deliver himself, in sixty days to the California Adult Authority to serve the remaining four years of his original sentence. Two days before delivery date Cleaver disappeagad and is now allegedly living in Havana. In the Rammrts article, Kathleen Cleaver, a societally hostile, though well-educated and intelli- gent woman, who was the SNCC program secretary at Fisk University, Nashville, when she first met Eldridge in March 1967, most eloquently expresses her (and quite likely her husband's) hatred for white America(termed llBabylon'r by Eldridye in his book "Soul on Ice" written in California pris0ns)i.n the following scorchingly graphic fashion:. 0 much in contemporary society considerect evil md destructive (Ram- - . I "Eldridge Cleaver died in that house on 28th Street with little Bobby, and what's left is force: fuel for the fire that will rage across the face of this racist ' country and either purge it of its evil or turn it into ashes. I say this for little Bobby, for Eldridge Cleaver who died that night, for every black man, woman, and chhd who ever died here in Babylon, I say it to racist America, that if every voice is silenced by your guns, by your courts, by your gas chambers, by your money, you will h o w , that as long as the ghost of Eldridge Cleaver is afoot, you have an enemy in ygur midst. If .. '8 b ' -. . . .+.. :yr . . . ... - . , . '.. ...: - -- . . . . . -_ . . .