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Volume 1, Number 26: April 6 - April 13, 1972

  • Apr 13, 1972
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Updated: May 28

This issue of Harrisburg Independent Press from April 6 - April 13, 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 26 of the Harrisburg Independent Press from April 6, 1972

Article Index


Harrisburg Jury Deadlocks on Conspiracy Charge

by Edward Zuckerman

page 1, page 4

keywords: conspiracy; Fr. Philip Berrigan; Sr. Elizabeth McAlister; William Lynch; illegal letters; Boyd F. Douglas; FBI informer; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; J.

Edgar Hoover; draft boards; Henry Kissinger; American Machine and Foundry Co.; bomb casings; Eqbal Ahmad


Thousands Support '7' at Rally Here

by Anita Harris

page 1, page 2, page 3

keywords: Harrisburg Defense Committee; Capitol Mall; Boston Bread and Puppet Theater; Daniel Ellsburg; veterans' groups; Bella Abzug; Fania Jordan; Vietnam; Rev. Ralph Abernathy; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; William Kuntzler; United Farm Workers; sunrise service; Rev. William Saum; Rev. Charles Dorsey; Clergy and Laymen Concerned


Inmates Sue Prison Heads

page 1

keywords: strike; Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary; punishment; Bureau of Prisons; Director Norman Carlson; Warden Noah Aldridge; Richard Kleindienst; solitary confinement; Judge William Nealon; prison hearings; John Alger; good time; Joel Meyers; cruel and unusual punishment


Matrix

by R.C. Filburn

page 2

keywords: U.S. Supreme Court; "separate but equal"; busing; substanard schools; President Nixon; desegregation; "equal educational opportunity


Ahmad Criticizes Court at Service

by N. Janey Snurr

page 2

keywords: Augsburg Lutheran Church; Judge Herman; equal justice


43 Detained at New Cumberland

by Sarah Forth

page 3

keywords: New Cumberland Army Depot; civil disobediance; pine seedlings; James LaCroce; Vietnam veterans; Ted Glick; Lia Boetes; Holmes Powell; VVAW; Joanne Malone; Harrisburg Defense Committee


Week-long Vigil Held

by Pat Read

page 3

keywords: Federal Building; Father John Andrews; Harrisburg Defense Committee; demonstrators


Judge's Charge Outrages Defense, Bewilders Jury

by Edward Zuckerman

page 5

keywords: Judge R. Dixon Herman; conspiracy; draft board raids; heating tunnels; Henry Kissinger; Indochina War; Boyd Douglas; Sr. Elizabeth McAlister


Berrigan's Illegal Letter

page 5

keywords: Fr. Philip Berrigan; Sr. Elizabeth McAlister; Boyd F. Douglas; draft board raids; Fr. Daniel Berrigan; Pete; National Guard; students; ROTC


Editorial

page 6

keywords: marijuana Commission; selling; smoking


Books Books Books

by Dick Sassaman

page 6

keywords: Doctor Brodie's Report; Jorge Luis Borges; literary magazines; Argentine Society of Writers; Norman Thomas di Giovanni; "The Meeting"; "Gospel According To Mark"; short stories


Rent Escrow Works (More or Less)

by Gail Carstaphen

page 1, page 6

keywords: landlord; tenants; "unfit for human habitation"; Thomas Morgan; George C. Cullison; Department of Community Development


Citizens Say No to War Taxation

page 7

keywords: tax resisters; 'Fund For Life'; Hamilton Health Care; day care centers; Harrisburg Bail Fund; Edgemont Recreational Association; Philadelphia War Tax Resistance; IRS


Current Cinema

by Ross Care

page 8

keywords: "The Ten Commandments"; Cecil B. DeMille; Anne Baxter; Vincent Prince; Edward G. Robinson; Moses; Charlton Heston; Mount Sinai; Yvonne DeCarlo


China Postscript: Sayings From Dick and Pat

by William Saroyan/LNS

page 8

keywords: Great Wall of China


Food for Living

by Jane and Tom Plastino

page 8

keywords: corned beef and sauerkraut; casserole


Short Shorts

by LNS

page 9

keywords: Daughters of the American Revolution; women' liberation; Food and Drug Administration; contamination; food; inspectors; Lt. William Calley; Ann Moore; Ft. Benning, Ga.


Cancer-Causing Meat on Market

by LNS

page 9

keywords: hormone; DES; beef; lamb; Food and Drug Administration; Agriculture Department; Charles Edwards; National Resources Defense Council


Pa. Election Laws Will Go To Court

page 9

keywords: election code; minority parties; Communist Party; Consumers Party; People's Party; Socialist Labor Party; Socialist Workers Party; suit; American Civil Liberties Union


Washington Merry-Go-Round

by Jack Anderson/United Features Syndicate

page 1, page 9

keywords: South Vietnam; Communist Party; President Thieu; AFL-CIO President George Meany; wage control; strike; dockworkers; International Telephone and Telegraph; Levitt Land Company; Bill Merriam; consumer advisor; Virginia Knauer; "double-decking"; President Nixon; school busing; George Wallace; Milwaukee; black militants


Did Howard Hughes Buy Nixon?

page 10

keywords: Leo Rosenberg; Internal Revenue Service; Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Bill Nichol; loan; tax exempt status; charitable institution


Captured Reporter Lived With Pathet Lao

by John Everingham/Dispatch News Service International

page 10

keywords: Royal Lao Government; Vietnamese; Luang Prabang; Australian journalist; chao meuang; captivity


ITT And Chile's Economy

by Alfred S. Hopkins/Dispatch News Service International

page 11

keywords: ITT-CIA; Salvador Allende; credit; replacement parts; embargo; "Patria y Libertad"; Andres Zaldevar; Rene Schneider


"Citizens' Commissions" Join Hands

by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI/Citizens' Commission to Demilitarize Industry

page 11

keywords: Resist; FBI office; Media, Pa.; political surveillance; harassment; MK 82 bombs; AMF Corp.; Black Student Leagues; Indochina; John Callahan; Soledad Brothers; Mr. Drumgo; Mr. Cluchette; resistance movement


Movies

page 12

keywords: The Last Picture Show; Peter Bogdanovich; Larry McMutry; The Godfather; Mario Puzo; Marlon Brando; Francis Ford Coppola; The Hot Rock; The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight; Film Odyssey; Jean Luc Goddard; Francois Truffaut; Richard Lester; Mark of the Devil; The Ten Commandments; Cecil B. DeMille; Dirty Harry; The Hospital; Paddy Chyafesky


Artwork

by Toni Truesdale

page 1

keywords: jury; Harold Sheets; Pauline Portzline; June Jackson; Kathryn Schwartz


by Gene Suchma

page 4, page 6

keyword: judge; Nixon; marijuana


Photos

by McCormick

page 1, page 3, page 4

keywords: Fr. Daniel Berrigan


by John Serbell

page 2, page 3, page 4

keywords: Eqbal Ahmad; New Cumberland Army Depot; rally; William Kuntzler; Daniel Ellsburg; Bread and Puppet Theater


by Miller

page 4

keywords: Sister Elizabeth McAlister


by Frolick

page 4


by Dispatch News Service International

page 11

keyword: Laos








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