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aqtisity. In a recent coltinin wriltcn by Victnr Ricsel the tnp ninc pcrsonalilies in tlrc DPP have bccn listcd. The fnllowing l i s t r r p r e s e n t s a fairly good conscirsus of opinion on thcir positions of power and influcnce in the P a r t y . 'The nine principal leaders in o r d e r are: 1) Huey Newton,' 2) Bobby Scale, 3) Eldridgc Cleaver, 4) David - Hilliarcl, 5 ) Elbert "Big Man" Howard, 6 ) Raymond Hewitt, 7) E m o r y Douglas, 8 ) Donald Cox and 9) Kathleen Cleaver. * Victor Ricscl's a r t i c l e points out additionally that only 4 3 branches of the B P P (including affiliate$) a r e known to exist. T h e i r m e m b e r s h i p of hard-core activists n u m b e r s between 700-1000. the 4 3 known chapters only 13 call themsclves BPP. T h c remaining 30 arc e i t h e r known as Community Information C e n t e r s or thc Com- mittee to Combat Fascism. Of -..A , *. Pantlrcr activities havc reccntly taken some interesting t u r n s . F i r s t Eldridge Cleaver and his Algiers continpent h a w apparcntly bccome disenchantcd with the antics of Tim L e a r y and his wifc, R n s c - m a r y . Electing to call t h e i r action protective custody, Cleaver and company, on their own authority, havc put T i m and Rost-mary iindcr house arrest due most.probably to the L e a r y ' s continued u s e of hnllucinagciric drugs. In an0 the r r c c-cn t it; tc r c s t.i lip, v vbn t I Ie ii r y Wins tn 11 , ' In 11 g - t. i i i i c! . c-hairman of tlrc CPUSA, has chidc!d Cleavcr, for doing what ?Vinstr)n tc-rnrs as a distinct disservice for thc! fight for trccdom of Bobby S c a l e , E r i c k a Huggins (on trial with Seale for m u r d e r in Connecticut) and a l l other victims of U.S. reaction in the BPP. Although C l e a v e r ' s e s n c t statcmcnt reportedly printed in thc P a r t y newspaper, tlic Black P a n t h e r , h a s not. yet becn rcvic.wed, Winston is highly critical of Cleaver's comments about Angela Davis. rccomiircndations as demonstrating complete ignorance of developments in thc U.S. in general and about bla,ck political p r i s o n c r s i n particular. Winston slatcd in a r c c c n t interview that Cleavcr's statcnients about Angela D a v i s in a r c c c n t interview could send hcr to thc gas c h a m h r r . Cleavcr apparently criticized worldwide communist support for Angcla Davis atid apparrntly calls the world conrnirinist support for h c r a "sriir,kcs(-l.c.f.tr" in trrclcr to advance rrltcrinr c*oniiirriiiist niolivrs. Tlic tVinsLnii staf:(?nrctit. clciiionstratcs thc continuing prisli and put1 bc:Lwc-c-n tlic pro-Cli:iicsc 'and pro-Russian commtinist factions and their cffor1.s Winston c h a r a c t e r i z c s Cleaver 's . \ . 5..