DOC RELATES TO PROJECT MERRIMAC (MERRIMACK) - SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT

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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
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• Case Number: F-2016-00496
• Publication Date: December 20, 1968

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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT
Faced again with student unrest the French have adopted a de-
cided "get tough" policy. The French Government has just decreed
the restoration of severe disciplinary power to university rectors
authorizing them to transfer or expel student troublemakers in cas-
es where the school is closed down by student riot. The focal point
is the French college at Nanterre (Paris suburban sister school of
the Sorbonne and part of the University of Paris) where the general
French student revolt was ignited last May. University reform laws
have been enacted but since France has experienced a sluggish re-
turn to full academic life since the May revolt, disciplinary coun-
cils (created in the reform act) have not been fully implemented.
The decreeing of powers to college administrators is therefore temp-
orary and designed to keep the campus peace until the effect of the
reform law can be felt.
-The French experience tends to personify the continental academ-
ic control philosophy. In Spain, the asserting of government auth-
ority. quite predictably_ Ivs been swifter and harsher than in France.
Germany, though, relatively quiet in recent weeks, faces the con-
tinuing delicate problem of advancing the principal of government
rule and order of the academic community (as well as in all segments
of the political&social life) while seeming and in fact acting "unNAZI".
The political pressures of the several European nations tend to com-
plex and differentiate the internal problems faced by each. Where
France, for example, must deal with the influential political left,* -�
the Germans must look left and right.
While the order of the day in Europe can be generally (and over-
simplified) defined as tough, the manner domestically of dealing with
the new-left and racially oriented student upheavals is one of paci-
fication and concilliation. Although the recent confrontation at San
Francisco State College appears forceful and hardboiled beneath the
surface, the College Administration has gone a long way toward bring-
ing about campus tran'quility by meeting most of the demands of the
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dissidents. Those teachers and students who remain at odds with
SFSC are for the most part, radical, racial militants and new-left
anarcists and nihilists. Demands of the re'asonable and rational have
been satisfied.
City College of New York, once called "The Little Red School -
house" has experienced an optomistic "backlash" phenomenon. The
radicals at CCNY have gone too far, believes Bernard WEINRAUB
writihg in the New York Times. A month ago, a small radical group
on the CCNY campus blocked recruitment of engineers. The Engin-
eering Employment Candidates reacted furiously. They held rallies,
called for a resumption of interviews, threatened to confront the
radicals and engaged in several brief scuffles. Fearing violence.
the Administration resumed interviews. The radicals failed to renew
demonstrations.. "Stop SDS" buttons are now seen on campus.. A
decided step backward for the college new left. An SDS member
at CCNY theorized that the demonstration hit the engineers in the
wallets, hence the failure of the demonstration to muster wide stu-
dent support.
The Harvard approaCA has been to stop student unrest before
it starts by anticipating and introducing programs to satisfy demands
before they are demanded. In September the Harvard Sociology De-
partment introduced a "radical" credited subject (both in content and
in educational philosophy). The course, Social Relations 148, is
attended by over 300 I-laniard students in a number of small. classes.
The discussion format encourages student participation and many
of the sessions are led by undergraduates. The subject matter runs
the gambet from Mao to Dullas. The recommended reading list
draws heavily from the literature of the new-left and militant negro;
Discussion topics might be "what will be the role of the Government �
after the revolution" or will the State wither away, as Marx has
written, after the workers control the means of production. Although
SR 148 was originally intended for only the fall term, students are
now demanding that it be continued in the spring. It seems a rather
easy demand to meet.,
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In a six page report the New York NAACP stated more police
protection .is necessary for negrons because they are the most fre-
quent victims of crime. The NAACP report, prepared by an exec-
utive committee, called the store looter a "hood" not a Robin Hood
and recommended swifter and sterner measures in criminal prose-
cution. Vincent BAKER, Chairman of the New York NAACP anti-
crime Committee said that the organization continues to oppose po-
lice brutality "but it is not police brutality that makes people afraid
to walk the streets at night". Police brutality is being "supercecied
by criminal brutality" said Mr. BAKER. In the report the NAACP
recommends specific (and stiff) punishment for specific crimes.
Two Washington, D.C. newspapers editorially endorse the report
and commend it to their readership.
The Washington, D.C. Black United Front has also declared
war on crime along with a demand for Statehood for Washington, D.C.,
a black police chief, and the arrest of Joel T. Broyhill. The Front
proposes to address itself to the crime situation in the District as.
it effects black people perpetrating crimes against other black neople.
The Front will try to stop black people from killing, raping, and sel-
ling dope to other black people. No mention of these crimes commit-
ted against white people was made by the spokesmen for the Black
United Front.
Whitney M. YOUNG, Executive Director of the Urban League,
has announced a two million dollar program to build economic, soc-
ial, and political muscle in 21 black communities across the country.
The Washington, D.C. Chapter has been funded with $40, 000.00
and plans to create community-owned commercial and industrial
enterprises. Further, Urban League will organize political action
teams in Washington, D.C. A full time professional economic'clevel-
�per will be employed whose role will be to develop a 10 year "Mar-
shall Plan" aimed at creating such things as a consumer co-op, a
workers co-op and. a nonprofit housing corporation. Sterling TUCKER,
Executive Director of the D.C. Urban League, is in charge of the
$2, 000, 000 program.

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Two wives of negro militants have gained attention in recent days.
Kathleen CLEAVER, wife of Black Panther Eldridge CLEAVER, who
is presently being sought by the FBI as a fligitive may be charged
under federal law with harboring a fugitive. Mrs. CL:EAVER report-
edly withdrew $33,000.00 from a San Francisco bank for her hus-
band's use. CLEAVER disappeared November 25th. 2 days before
he was scheduled to return to prison as a parole violator.
Miriam MAKEBA, South African folk singer, complains that
since her marriage to Stokely CARMICHAEL last April she has been
unable to obtain bookings either on television or in prominent night
clubs, and theaters.
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Calendar of tentatively scheduled activities
"Asterisked" items are either reported for the
first time or contain additions or changes to previous-
ly reported activities.
December 20
December 20-27
at Washington, D. C. , has been in-
dicted in connection with the April riots. The
indictment included two counts of interfering with
a police officer and one count of engaging in a
riot. Maximum penalty on all three counts is
elev n years in prison and $11.000 fine. 481111000.44
viii be arraigned in U.S. District Court,
on or about December 20.
There have been 260 indictments in connection
with the April riots in Washington.
At a recent speech given b414,50Seat George
krashiii'gton University, a spectator reports that
during an altercation,VgaMalarhirt was
torn open revealing a concealed pistol carried
in a shoulder holster. -
lncluded in the "Declaration of Montreal" (the
statement issued by the 1800 delegates and parti-
cipants in the three-day Hemispheric Conference
to End the War in Vietnam) was an action program
including:
Organize a week of solidarity with the Vietnamese
people in all countries of the Western Hemisphere
on 20 December, the anniversary of the founding
of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
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December 21-23 *A three-day vigil sponsored by the Peace Action
Council and the Dow Action Committee will be
held in front of the Dow 'Chemical Building at
Los Angeles. The Dow Action Committee has
also announced plans to hold a rally in MacAr-
thur Park (Los Angeles) on Sunday, December
.22, 1968.
DeceMber 23
Eldridge CLEAVER, Black Panther Party
leader currently a fugitive as a parole violator,
fails to appear in Alameda County Superior Court
for the setting of a trial date on charges growing
out of the shoot out in Oakland in April between
Black Panthers and the Oakland police, the $50,000
bail put up for him could be forfeited.
The $5, 000 premium fee for his bond was paid
for by various donations but six of his supporters
signed affidavits promising payment of the $50,000
if he does not appear.
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Included are: Godfrey CAMBRIDGE, the Negro
Comedian; Edward KEATING, lawyer and former
publisher of RAMPARTS mag.azine: and Dr. Phil-
ip SHAPIRO, a San Francisco physician and an
active supporter of the Black Panther Party.
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Dece-riber 27-29 An organization called the "Peacemakers" has
scheduled a conference at Philadelphia. The
purpose of the conference is to encourage persons
not to register for Selective Service. The con-
ference organizer and coordinator, one
is reportedly a member of the Young
Socialist Alliance.
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December 27-29 'Chicago, Illinois - The Socialist Workers Party
(SWP) is sponsoring an anti-war conference calling
it a "GI-Civilian Conferbnce." At the Conference
a date will be set for a massive spring demonstra-
tion led by "thousands of GI's in many cities."
December 27,1968
to
January 1, 1969 *The National Council meeting of the SIDS will be
held at Ann Arbor, Michigan during theChristmas--
New Years Holidays. 1000 SDS chapter delegates.
members and affiliates are expected to be in attend-
ance.
January 1969
Guerrilla, an underground publication, recent-
ly proposed that in January 1969, independent
revolutionaries hold a "Congress for Cultural
R evolution. "
"The Congress should be organized to include the
independent revolutionary media. various repre-
sentatives of the underground communities, and
other independent revolutionary organizations
and individuals who are inteFestecl in total cul-
tural revolution whether they be activists, anarch-
ists, poets and artists, or socialists.
(1) The red and black should attempt to formu-1.4te
a broad program of cultural revolution which in-
cludes an analysis of the tasks facing cultural
revolutionaries from the point of view of the ec-
ology,. morphology and cybernetics as well as
from the more traditional revolutionary informations.
(2) Polarize the underground. The C1A and other
intelligence agencies have begun to consciously
infiltrate the curtural revolution via grants, fake
poetry projects, magazines and the usual fronts.
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GUERRILLA belie-ves it is necessary to name and
define the counter-cultural revolution so that a
conscious federation of cultural revolution may
be built.
( 3) The Congress should attempt to formulate its
own 4-year plan of cultural revolution. Social
revolution as a weapon of cultural revolution.
Those interested in helping to organize a national
CONGRESS FOR CULTURAL REVOLUTION may
write GUERRILLA."
January 2-10
January 6
January 7
'*At a meeting in Kalamazoo, Michigan on 15-17
November the National Interim Committe of the
SDS proclaimed 2-10 January to he SDS Days of
Solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. SDS is
planning to send a .;mall official delegation to Cuba
at that time. Additionally, during Solidarity week.
SDS plans other activities including the presentation
of filMe, educational programs and possibly
demonstrations
'D. C. - Oral arguments will be heard by the 1st
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of anti-
draft conspiracy convicted Dr. Benjamin Spock
and the three other convicted defendants. Written
appeal briefs have been filed.
\741Los 'Angeles, California - The trial of Sirhan B.
Sirhan for the murder of Sen. R. F. Kennedy has
been postponed until 7 January. The delay from
9 December was granted to permit a new member
of the defense team, Attorney Grant B. Cooper. to
study the ease. The trial will _be held in a steel-
plated coiii-t room with closed circuit tolevision
for reporters. There will not be any public
television.
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January 18 .
January 21
*Evanston, Illinois - SDS at Northwestern
University plans to demonstrate to protest
CIA recruiting on the campus. An SDS leader
has stated that he feels the demonstration will
be "obstructive in nature."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - The Black Liberation
Alliance, formed October 18-20 at Columbus, Ohio,
by 50 dissatisfied members of CORE from five
states will hold its first convention. Temporary
officers were elected at Columbus. It was
decided that the organization will strive for basic
social , economic, and political change in the U.S.A.
rather than reform. It will seek racial separation,
black nationalism, and the formation of a separate
black nation within the boundaries of the U.S.
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*New Orleans, Louisiana - Clay L. Shaw is to go
on trial in the Orleans Parish Criminal District
Court on charges of conspiring to assassinate
President John F. KENNEDY, This case has.
been in an "on and off" status for a long time but
does appear to actually be going to trial this time.
Controversial District Attorney Jim GARRISON
was quoted as saying, "The moment of truth has
arrived in this case. Even if I am killed, the
Clay 'Shaw case will go to trial."
SOURCES: Government and news media reports
RELIABILITY: Probably true
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