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Volume 1, Number 18: February 10 - February 16, 1972

  • Feb 16, 1972
  • 4 min read

Updated: Mar 14

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from February 10 - February 16, 1972, had 12 pages, filled with independent local, regional, and national news. Six months for $5, one year for $8. Download the .pdf at the bottom of the page.


Screenshot of Volume 1, Number 18 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from February 10, 1972

Article Index


Trial Jury Picked, '7' Seek 'Fair Ear'

by Edward Zuckerman

page 1, page 4

keywords: jury selection; peremptory challenges; Eqbal Ahmed; Elizabeth McAlister; Judge R. Dixon Herman; Vietnam War; Tony Scoblick; William Lynch; J. Thomas Menaker; Dennis Heefner; racial balance


Local Bail Bondsmen: How Rich is the Gravy?

by Anita Harris

page 1, page 6

keywords: bail system; House Majority Leader K. Leroy Irvis; skip rate; bail reform bill; traffic violations; public service


Draft Board Youth Has Short Career

by Chris Davis

page 1

keywords: Warren B. Lassin; State Selective Service Director Robert D. Ford; dismissal; draft board member; Gen. Eli Plaskew; Curtis Tarr; Governor Shapp; national Selective Service Director


Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2

keywords: defensive driving course; state vehicles; travel expenses; Bureau of Traffic Safety; older drivers; shoulder harnesses; outdoor toilets


Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson

page 2

keywords: POW; Henry Kissinger; North Vietnamese; Cyrus Eaton; Russia; China; Foy Kohler; arms; medical supplies; Alaskan oil pipeline; environmental impact; fishing grounds; pollutants; Interior Dept.; salmon spawning ground


Flo Kennedy: Blueprints for Feminist Revolution

Interview by Cookie Cirillo

page 3

keywords: Florence Kennedy; civil rights attorney; Penn State Capitol Campus; Catholic Church; boycott; war contractors; Dan and Phil Berrigan; picket lines; sexist movies; guerilla theater


Feuilleton

by Dick Sassaman

page 4

keywords: famous people; literature; recordings; Richard Harris; Michael Parks; Archie Bunker; Allen Ginsburg; Abbie Hoffman; Rod McKuen; psychological warfare; Weed, California; Mayor Frank Rizzo; marijuana; Abner Weed; The Price of Fame


The Harrisburg 12 - The Jury

page 4

keywords: Pauline Portzline; June Jackson; Nance Leidy; Harold Sheets; Vera Thompson; Robert Foresman; Kathryn Schwartz; Lawrence Evans; Ann Burnett; Frances Yaklich; Jo-An Stanovich; Patricia Shafer


Clergymen, Prisoners Back Harrisburg 7

by Edward Zuckerman and Chris Davis

page 5

keywords: religious leaders; political prisoners; Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein; Bishop Walter Schoenherr; Dr. Cynthia Wedell; National Council of Churches; Rev. Frank Bonnike; Dr. Rosemary Reuther; Rev. J. Metz Rollins, Jr.; Vietnam; Rev. Raymond Hopkins; Jane Kennedy; Frank Callahan; Jane Myerding


Kunstler Here

page 5

keywords: William Kunstler; defense lawyer; "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine"; draft files; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; defendants; Catholic peace activists


Defense Challenges Government on Finances

page 5

keywords: Harrisburg Defense Committee; financial record; legal expenses; mail solicitations; Vietnam War; donations; government's costs; prospective jurors; government surveillance; Boyd Douglas; Sen. Edward Kennedy


State Group Moves For Bail Reform

page 6

keywords: Governor's Justice Commission; Philadelphia Court Bail Agency; Pittsburgh plan; bail bondsmen; Release on Own Recognizance


Letter to the Editors

page 6

keywords: E.A. Bales; violence; criminal actions; George Wallace; polls; good government; Lou Casimir; draft files; college-educated professionals; Barry Bondhus; working-class folks; Ramsey Clark


Books Books Books Books

by Jody Raphael

page 7

keywords: The Difference Between a Man and a Woman; Theo Lang; Women's Liberation; child care; biochemical affinity; anatomy; biology; "Natural Theory"


Current Cinema

by Ross Care

page 8

keywords: "Fellini Satyricon"; science fiction; bestiality; pagan world; Fanfulla; Christianity; Romans; faces; Bernardino Zapponi; Encolpius; Martin Potter; Ascyltus; Hiram Keller; Giton; Max Born; Danito Danoti; Nino Rota


Food for Living

by Jane and Tom Plastino

page 8

keywords: soybean croquettes


ShortShortsShortShortsShortShorts

page 9

keywords: air war; South Vietnam; B-52 bombers; lumber industry; shrapnel; United States government; North Vietnam; expenditure; toy industry; war toys; California; Assemblyman John Burton; Proudhon; laws


Blind Sweet Willie Tishman's Guitar Lesson

page 9

keywords: Memphis; Howlin' Wolf; Muddy Waters; Elmore James; John Lee Hooker; Little Walter; Smokestack Lightnin'; Creedence Clearwater Revival


Smile! You May Well Be On Police TV

by Robert Barkan/Pacific News Service/Liberation News Service

page 10

keywords: Pacific Studies Center; surveillance devices; Vietnam; Attorney General John Mitchell; Ho Chi Minh Trail; Sylvania Electronic Systems; Border Patrol; prrisons; utilities; Land Warfare Laboratory; police; night vision; television surveillance; Nixon administration; altruism


Ah, Vanity, Vanity!

page 10

keywords: Lancaster County Republican Party; registrant


If They Want to Stay Cuckoo, It's OK With Us

by Good Times/Liberation News Service

page 11

keywords: psychiatric prison center; Vacaville mental health facility; "adversion therapy"; violent inmate; lobotomies; Department of Corrections; Medical Committee for Human Rights; maximum security; anti-testosterone injections; Anectine


Rights Leader Says Blacks Losing

by Lamar Hoover

page 11

keywords: Rev. Hosea Williams; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Afro-American Festival; Franklin and Marshall; civil rights; integration; urban renewal; economic system; militant Blacks; China


Judge Exacts Niggling Fine From Oil Spill Offenders

page 11

keywords: crude oil; Santa Barbara Channel; oil spills; Union Oil; Mobil; Texaco; Gulf


Movies

page 12

keywords: "The Seven Samurai"; Dirty Harry; Straw Dogs; North Country; The Owl and the Pussycat; Glass Houses; Happy Birthday, Wanda June; My Old Man's Place; Something Big


Artwork

by Robert Phipps

page 1, page 4

keywords: U.S. Judge R. Dixon Herman; jurors


by Gene Suchma

page 1

keyword: bail; collateral

page 7


page 11

keyword: Grapes


Photos

by John Serbell

page 5

keywords: Fr. Phil Linden








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