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'CO 0 01 8 14 2- " . . I ' - - .. . .. . On f'*Novcmbcr, the Goalitiotr for United CunInrunity Action was rcportcd to be syokoring a city-widF strike and rally at Chicago that day t e demand that Scale bc freed. It was hoped thst 25,000 w u l d par- ticipate; but i n view of a lack of national news c o v c r a p , it would seem that this was a highly optimistic and vain hope. I 0 -41~0 on 3 November, the Black Panther Party (&PI.') was sporr- . soring demonstrations al Chicago. San Francisco, and Scw York to pro- test the treatment of Scale; and it was bel&ved that thc Southern Chris- tian Lcadcrship Confercncc (SCLC) and youth gangs might participate. According to Lonfidcntial FPI informanfs, a BPP leadcr had issued in- structions that dcrnonstrations should be hcld on that date (3 Nov. ) in froirt of k-ecleral Buildings in Ncw York City, Uoston, Philadelphia. and New Haven; and according to the informant, demonstrations would occur also *in Chicaso, Los Angcles, San Francisco, and Srattlc-for the purposc ol ehowirrg support for Bobby Scalc, and to advocate the exchange of Black Panthers confined in the United States for Americans being hcld by North Vietnam. . . . According to a 4 Novcmbcr FBI-message, relatively sntall demon- strations occurre*.\ i n New York City, Boston, New iiavcn, Philadelphia, Chicapo, and San k'raticisco; and a t tho Ne\? ILvcn dcmotistratiun, it was anrrounccci that additional rallies would be hclil 011 5 Nov.cniLcr. k c w York City rally, incmbcrr; of the Conltnuniat Party, UZ;it, wcre ob- served; and at tlrc rally in Boston, there wcrc inernbcrs of thc anarchisLic Studcnts for a Dctnocratic Society (SDS). No mentiorl was macle'oi dzrnon- strations in Los Angclcs or Seattle. . a'bt the Kkanwhilc, it is interesting to note that after an cxtraustivc rc- view of the TV covcrage ot last year's National Democratic Convention, "House investigators" have concluded that the T V networks seemcd hos- lilc to the Democratic Party and that cautious legislation is nccdecl to prohibit "the falsification of purportedly bona fide new6 cvents. I' Accorcl- ing to tlac prcss on 5 November, a confidcittial rcporl3o the 1-lousc Corn- incrcc Committcc stated that T V covctilgc scettred to present "a ons- . sic]c<l picture which in a large msasurc exoncratcs tltc dcrnonstta.tDrS ;U*l p r o t ~ ~ t c : r ~ ' * , and cited case after case a s cvidcncc of iiiis1~adi11~ awl plrotty plrotogmphic rcportin!; by large networks. 0 * 0 b . .,. . . . - . .- ...,,,. . -. . -- ..- ._..., . .- . . . -. J * . -. .-. .. . . . .- 8 .. . . A . 1,. .., i ..-. - 1 .. . . . . .. . . . _. : ... . . . e . - - . .