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RELEASE AT EDITOR'S CONVENIENCE (Suyqested date: Wed. ,. 6/5/74) MPG eet ada ON ata. te TAL ee, : : : . ot egy agitating as islndecde es Eee agg ges ae aaa an ii wk . . ae oo . “et + ow ona IN WASHING GTON . - “ets _& Mae es. ; ¥ . . #6 “qa . + 2h a 7 SLA--THE NEW MARTYRS OF: THE LEFT aoe By RALPH-de TOLEDANO A traumatic experience. like the shootout between the tat. police and FBI and the Symbionese madmen brinys the weirdos out of the woodwork, For example, Dr. Fred Schwartz, leader of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, received a letter | attacking "morons such as you" and concludiny: "The SLA ig Right-wing piot to discredit the Left--didn't you know?" s writer was S, Beals, news director of Earlham Colleqe’s FM radio station in Richmond, Indiana. . a - Te om a ‘ But it is also responsible for a carefully- -planned ao . | drive to make the Symbionese Liberation Army and those of thei members who chose death in Los Anyeles the martyrs for today. i | David #olfe, father of one of those killed,has called for an ig. imfestigation of the "slaughter" by the police and the FBI-- which may be excused’ as a manifestation of in sorrow, But what I. predicted recently is now coming to pas The _ , Sob sisters and: brothers of the media have begun the glorifi- e, eation. of the paranoid young people who mfykered a school offi . kidnapped Patricia Hearst, robbed banks, shop- -lifted, and “opened fire on‘ the police and the FBI when they were surrounde Simultaneously, the newspapers have bequn to contribute to . ‘the s SEA “martyrdom™ by publishing imp£1amatory let rs which. distort. the. facts. and create an SLA “ny thology. o ‘Washington’ ‘Ss only morning newspaper last wet qave ma jo prominence in: its letters section to three outbursts, one of "whit t quote at some length: ee or am sickened by the way in which the police and FBI " CATCE to kill nembers of the Synbionese Libera- my Richard Uf. Perry writes. "Ihe attackiny police fox house where ¢ six SLA members were slauyhtered could | rt tatkimy to the defenders before ass nauttinl nd openiny fire with their vast arsen: {> IPF } sree stete e