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. Henderson, Medina's brigade commander, ., will be charged for dereliction of duty for not investi- “gating what-happened at the Vietnamese hamlet. w THE UN’S ECONOMIC BOYCOTT of Rhodesia has suc-’ ceeded in-1) making the UN appear silly and ineffec- tual, and 2) forcing the United States to import most ~ ‘of its chrome ore from the Sgviet Union (which hgs tripled the price over the past three years). Now the - Senate has passed:a measure under which the Presi- rials from any country if the same material is being imported from a Communist county. A “slap at the | Hungary referred to him as “Cardinal” when announe-? ‘ a ~ on b 7 fF, ? For a “political prisoner” George Jackson hed quite a criminal background—as dug up by the L.A. pe and ' published in a Buckley column last week: On January 5, 1957, fifteen-year-old George/ Jackson was arrested for stealing a motorcycle. He wag released | in the custody of his parents, ... On January} 22 police arrested Jackson again, on suspicion of burglarizing a motoreyele shop. While being frisked he turned on one of the officers and attempted to drive his back into a desk spike. As a result of this incident he was detained briefly as a juvenile offender but later released on pro- bation. ... During the month of February he rested. ... On March 5 Jackson was arrested for burglarizing : a Los Angeles furniture store. This being his third ‘arrest, the authorities sent him to reform school... . On August 20, 1958 Jackson was again arrested. This time he had a disagreement with his boss and slashed nro ” the seats of a bus his boss owned.:Hé spent ten days in jai. + On September 24 Jackson, with some help, robbed $105 from a gas station. He was arrested, . escaped and was arrested again, escaped again and was . rearrested. He was paroled in June 1960. Then, on September 19, 1960, came the famous gas station robbery, the one that netted: only 71 bucks. February 1, 1961 Jackson was sentenced to one year to life, depending on his behavior. With good behavior he would have been out in a year; if he didn’t behave he would be in jail for life. As we know, Jackson was in jail for the rest of his life. . , Placed first in Soledad, his infractions were minor. As time passed they became more serious: April 1965, Jackson stabbed a Chicano inmate in the back; Septem- ber 1966, a prisoner accused Jackson of ripping open his head: January 1967, Jacksen was accused of asseult with a two-foot long pipe; April 1967, he was accused of beat- ing the head of a Chicano inmate; June 1967, he re- ~ . fused to obey an order, then assaulted the guard who gave it; October. 1969, a simulated gun..was found sion: 1970, Jackson: ackson's possession ;: . safety, but also for the effect his symbolic presence in, dent may not prohibit importation of strategic mate- ATI e a UN,” fumed the NY Times. Which is just what it takes, sometimes, to bring people to their senses, : : NG m JOZSEF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY finally succumbed to. \ pleas from Washington and the Vatican to leave the American Embassy in Budapest and come to the Weat. na Their concern was no doubt partly for his health and +: the Embassy had on attempts at rapprochement. He had always said that he would not leave Hungary until, his conviction of treason was officially repudiated -byy. the government. He did not win that full victory, but! — John Clutchette and Fleeta Drumgo, was charged with® killing a guard at Soledad. His last prison violation was? August 21, 1971, when he was killed trying to escape -—™ from prison. Soe BRIEFS. Eldridge Cleaver 'eft Algeria and has turned up ~ in the Congo, and, it seems, the Congo is everything he?” ever wanted: “We find here in the Conge a revolution-. ary Marxist-Leninist state, party, and a People’s Army’ - built along the lines of a-true People’s Republic to deal with safeguarding construction of a socialist society. from both internal and external enemies.” Fellow Black Panther Huey Newton is also traveling. He’s visiting - ~ the People’s Republic of China. Back home in Oakland, black attorney Joseph Simmons said some unkind things = about Newton, Simmons accused him of “downgrading’, black lawyers” and said that Newton had given the firm i of very white attorney Charles Garry $500,000 over the oat years. Commented Simmons: “I am worried that New- : ton has become a-twentieth-century Uncle Tom.” . Pyke. Also on the move-is the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Presi- dent of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference~, He went on a week-long lecture tour of the Soviet, Union. Another SCLC leader, Rev. Hosea Williams, ‘is visiting China on a “goodwill brotherhood” trip. Mao" should really enjoy this visit. Williams has a letter from Abernathy to Mao and a film on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King. —_ fod NATIONAL REVIEW is published weekly except for the first week in January by National Reviev, Inc. at SO Emmett St., Bristol. - ar Conn. Second class postage pa:d at Bristol, Conn. € National Re-". eo Bae view, Inc. 1971. . . : Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, ete. , to National Review, 150 East 35th St, New York, N.Y. 10026. Address undeliverable ccpies, ete. to Circuiation Manager. . National Review, 150 East 35th St., New York, N.Y. 10016. . RATES: $20.00 a year ($12.00 for the 44-page issues, and 8.00 for the §-page issues published in the alternate weeks). 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