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Sleaver embraces old foes _

By TONY LEDWELL _polltical operative | | ae |
¢ ‘Galt ( poll per ve, Charles Freedoni party, seeking to on die’ to a a profound. three. “years; --pocently:

AP) — on, is at his side. They dismantle many of the in- Lous lence, he also * decided: to return. to the

“y wanted to send: waves of of -proclaim: themselves.. stitutions he now embraces. it would be a long and United - States, - its ©
Atnothers in Christ” and He got more than 35,000. ardu srdiuous road arene changing a, epving iia

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white. race, wlaridge talk of their past contempt votes. © "When Cleaver retuned, made possible a fair trial on.

Cleaver wrote in Soulon ice, for each other,. their — Within three weeks of the’ the Black Panthers calleda the murder charges he

his 1968 book. “‘I know that if ‘ religious conversion and lection he was-on the'run, news conference and faces,

. Thadnot been apprehended, their new devetion, - -"” . Jaunching a seven-year exile suggested he had turned into _ But while Newton vows to

. Lwould have slit some white ‘ener jeaver, spends his days to’ avoid arrest on charges an FBI informer. Later, the resume the leadership of the
throats.” preaching, his arising from the shootout. party toned down its Black Panther tty and ex-
Today, Cleaver renounces ees in limbo. awaiting the He wandered thro bh Cuba, rhetoric, saying it had no _Pand its. sell programs,

those words, “but they were outcome egal North Korea and North evidence. eaver says he” wants. to

honest at the time.” When-~ manoeuvres. Last month, Vietnam, eventually settling  Cleaver’s wife of 10 years, -spend his remaining years |

he goes on trial on charges the California Court of in France. Kathleen, says with aS a writer, expourding on:
of attempted ef beth rae: Appeals turned down The portrait of a gun- chuckle that all her husband his social vohilosop hy end

will be eaver’s request for access rattling rebel turned wants now is ‘to be an elder explaining) bo how 1 religion .

lawyers, all white tt FBi files on him. iritual pacifist and devout statesman.”*
At 41, Cleayer says. he INVOLVED IN. SHOOTING Christian raises the — For: Cleaver, the WRITING BOOK

finally knows who he is. The - After. a nine-year stretch inevitable question: Is. revolutionis on ice. Many of - He has a contract to write. :

-ghettobred firebrand whose in ‘prison for assault, Cleaver sincere or to his friends died in the nal
eae rhetoric once Cleaver moved swiftly tothe “win: * eeipathy Beam recurring war between the Spiritual oie, Perm

exhorted masses of angry front: ranks of the Black " potsatial urors?. |... - Panthers and the: ce. “ae “studied «carefull io
men to arms now~ Panther party and almost’ © When:he was. ‘released -. vail and -agree. with ae

| gently to welldressed - died in a shootout with from jail'on $100,000 bail a: Former. comrade: Huey “ten teaching of Tesus; but I don't:
speaks gen preaching the. police in pe year ago, he a acknowledged Newton, exiled in: Cuba for: ‘like the idea that-I’ve been: -
gospel of Jesus Christ. That same year, he ran - that he was trying to win - ‘born again in my cell,’ I'm.
Occasionally, the ees ‘for president. as the can- trust o: of people, but because — _ M certain ‘that people would. -

White House “arty tricks Ada of the Peace and of his sharp personality see that:as geome kind of:

gambit.”

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contained in the Marxist--

they make the distinction
, between idealism and

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leaver says. his ex-....
‘periences inext e“led me to
refresh my contact with the ..
whole spiritual dimension.” -
“T came to see that there |

Leninist. ideologies, where ~

‘lumped under ‘idealism’ .

=. is not only room: but a_
—e, .  |-necessity.for us to address.

ealipnicniaiaall ourselves” to morality and -

the relationship between ~.

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‘and economic ‘approach, ~
| without -giving “any con- -
Its time to. call your sideration tothe more a

EVELYN ANWEILER _ Cleaver, a chronicler of ©
‘. ges. | Black frustration and .-

WENDY © CLISBETT | become a writerhusband-.

| ‘father. He depicts ‘himself
Need 35 21 wih ut: regrets.

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