Feminist Health Center Director Acquitted

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Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973

LOS ANGELES—The co-director of the Feminist Women’s Health Center was acquitted on December 5 of charges of “practicing medicine without a license.” The jury of four women and eight men deliberated nine hours before reaching their decision. The verdict was …

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Vietnam talks stalled as U.S. hedges

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Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973

PARIS—As the secret Vietnam peace negotiations between Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho remain deadlocked here after two weeks of talks, it is becoming clearer each day that the responsibility for the current impasse rests largely with the …

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Farah strikers launch national boycott

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Fifth Estate # 173, December 16, 1972-January 5, 1973

Last May 3rd, workers went on strike at the San Antonio plant of Farah Pants to protest the company’s history of unfair labor practices, which included the firing of several workers who had engaged in legal union activities. Farah is …

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NCCF Trial

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Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971

Fourteen members of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, accused of murder and conspiracy to murder in the killing of a Detroit patrolman at 14th and Myrtle last October, are set to go on trial May 10th. The NCCF is …

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Gov’t Attacks GI Group

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Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971

MADISON, Wisc.—A Federal Grand Jury here has indicted three army enlisted men on charges that they dynamited installations at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin last July 26th, the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s attack on the Moncada Barracks.

Panthers Split

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Fifth Estate # 127, March 18-31, 1971

A massive split formed in the Black Panther Party in recent weeks, as the party’s Algiers International Section—including Eldridge Cleaver—and the New York City branch announced their opposition to the California-based leadership of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense.

California: Victim and Executor

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Fifth Estate # 29, May 1-15, 1967

Aaron Mitchell was an American black man who killed a cop. In retribution the state of California asphyxiated Mitchell with cyanide poison gas fumes in San Quentin prison on April 12.

Preview Look of Expo ’67

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Fifth Estate # 28, April 15-30, 1967

In about one month Expo 67 will open in Canada on Montreal’s Ile Sainte-Helene. It will last until October 27, with April 28th as the opening day. One expects 35 million visitors during this half year of “Happenings” on a …

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The Lovin’ Lidfull

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Fifth Estate # 26, March 15-31, 1967

Reprinted from The Berkeley Barb (Underground Press Syndicate).

‘Oh! What A Lovely War’

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Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967

Detroit is going through a lot of changes. Plum Street has made the inner city a nice place to visit and the Grande Ballroom has made tripping out a routine. But the most important change is at 2555 Burns Avenue, …

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