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surrender. Otherwise, believe the Pan-
thers, they would have all been mur-
dered by the cops.

The police arrested the 18 when a
public surrender was arranged through
Panther-placed telephone calls to news-
papers and friendly individuals. The
police have charged the Panthers with
possession of illegal and deadly weap-
ons. But neighbors of the Panther head-
quarters say they saw police officials
bring a cache of weapons into the
building a half hour after the 18 Panth-
ers had been taken away.

The 18 in jail are: Deputy Defense
Minister Geronimo, 27, who is held .on
$165,000 bail; Melvin Smith, 41, no bail
set; Robert Bryan, 23, held without
bail; Tommye Williams, 19, no bail;
George Young, 22, held on $25,000 bail;
Willie Stafford, 19, held without bail;
Bernard Smith, 17, no bail; Paul Redd,
19, held without bail; Renee Moore, 19,
no bail; Gilbert Parker, 19, no bail;
Isiah Houston, 23, no bail; Sharon Wil-
liams, 20, $12,500 bail; Craig Williams,
19, held on $12,500 bail; Wayne Pharr,
19, being held without bail set.

Also jailed are:
without bail; Jackie Johnson, 20, no
bail; Saundra Pratt, 20, $62,500 bail,
and Roland Freeman, 22, held without
bail.

The blows aimed at the Panthers
have had the effect of rallying support
to the organization that has become
enemy number one to the government
of repression.

Among the organizations supporting
the Los Angeles Panther prisoners are
the American Parents Council, the
Black Student Union, Operation Bread
Basket, the Urban League, CORE, the
Crenshaw Neighbors Organization, the
Black Student Alliance, SCLC, the Che
Lumumba Club, the Malcolm X Foun-
dation, and the NAACP.

On Dec. 20, a special commission of
black congressmen convened in Chica-
go to investigate the assassination of
Panther leaders Hampton and Clark by

police.

Heeaded by Rep. Charles Diggs (D-
Mich), the commission included Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), Rep.
Louis Stokes (D-Ohio), and Rep. John
Conyers (D-Mich) .

Professor Herbert Reid of the Har-
vard Law School served as counsel to
the commission that took testimony
from Panther deputy defense minister
Bobby: Rush and other concerned per-
sons. :

The congressmen were taken to
Hampton’s apartment on the West Side
to inspect the premises.

Referring to the murder scene, Rep.
Diggs remarked, “I have never in my
life seen such a sight.”

Panther chief of staff Dave Hilliard
said his organization welcomed the

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support of all concerned parties and

organizations, black and white, radical

and moderate.

‘A spokesman of the Black Panther
Party said in New York: “We say to
the black representatives and to all
concerned people, that they must put
their words into practice or 80 down
in history with those who perpetuate
the Big Lie. The Big Lie is the one
that this country was based on, and
it is the Big Lie that causes all of the
fascist repression On black, and other
oppressed. people in this country.

Lloyd Mims, 19, -

Dick Gregory says:

HATE RACISM, NOT WHITES

“All black people know that what

“happened to Fred Hampton can happen

to them,” top U.S. comedian Dick Gre-

‘gory told thousands gathered at a De-

monstration against Underempioyment
of Minorities meeting in Seattle.
“Feeding hungry folk is what’s get-
ting Panthers killed,” he said. “The Man
pays billions not to plant food and 40
million in this country go hungry.”

And he said, “The BPP is talking
about unifying — if the white folks get
together and start feeding white folks,
they will kill them, too.”

Dick Gregory opened his talk by tell-
ing his audience that the number one
problem was that of “our Indian broth-
ers.”

“Black folks and white folks are not
too concerned about Indians, otherwise
they would not say, the Man is fixing
to commit genocide, because he already
HAS committed genocide. He commit-
ted genocide against the Indian peoples
when he first landed.”

He told the white folks that black
folks do not hate white folks, they
hate the stinking white racist system,
institutionalized racism. He pinpoint-

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Arrested for aid to hungry

Dr. Donald Gatch will be tried
this month on a series of charges,
such as illegal use of drugs, failure
to keep records and dispensing
drugs without a prescription. His
real crime is exposing the hunger
of the blacks and poor whites in
the southern U.S. states.and help-
ing them.

Dr. Gatch came to prominence
in 1967 when he testified before
the Citizens’ Board of Inquiry into
Hunger and Malnutrition in the
U.S. Based on his 10 years experi-
ence as a general practitioner in
Beaufort and Bluffton, S.C., he told
of the wide-spread existence of
chronic malnutrition, vitamin de-
ficiency diseases such as scurvy,
rickets and pellagra and intestinal
parasites — hookworm and whip-
worm — which he said were res-
ponsible for at least eight deaths
in the area.

He also exposed discriminatory
medical practices: “Well, just a
typical example, a mother brought
a nine-year-old girl to my office

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ed the ruling group responsible, suc
as Rockefeller. :
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was never a system strong enough to
wear down nature’s system of change;
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Monday. She had apparently had
a ruptured appendix since Friday.
We took her into\ the operating
room. Again, | kinda snuck her in
because it’s against the rules t:
admit a patient without money.
And when we got her on the sur-
gical table one of the surgeons
said, without any comment espe-
cially ‘This child has rickets.’ And
when we got in the abdomen and
were doing the appendectomy we
found some round worms; and he
says, ‘Of course, in these colored
children the closer we get up to
the ilium in the stomach the more
worms we will find because these
kids don’t have much to eat.’ And
this is where they head, they get
the food before the kids do and
whether the kid will live or not, |
don’t know. The mother didn't want
to bring the kid to the doctor be-
cause she didn’t have any money.”
_ Dr. Gatch disclosed that he was
told to leave the state and there
would be no charges. When he re-
fused, he was arrested.

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