Students Trash SUNY

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Fifth Estate # 101, March 19-April 1, 1970

BUFFALO, New York (LNS) Students at the State University of New York at Buffalo pulled off a series; of actions for nearly a week in support of black athletes’ demands and to get police off campus in late February. They …

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Conflict of Interests

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Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS), — In an unprecedented lawsuit filed in Federal Court May 11, the Reservist’s Committee to Stop the War moved to expel 122 Congressmen from the Armed Forces Reserves and the National Guard.

Armed Farces Day

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Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970

MONTEREY, Calif. (LNS) — In over a dozen actions at military bases across the country on May 16, thousands of anti-war soldiers and civilians marched and rallied against the traditional celebration of Armed Forces Day.

No Ten Million for Cuba

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Fifth Estate # 106, May 28-June 10, 1970

HAVANA (LNS) In two speeches May 19 and 20, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announced that the projected mark of ten million tons of sugar would not be reached this year.

The Supreme Court Changes

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

WASHINGTON, D.C. (LNS)—If Americans ever believed there was an Olympus within their borders, the location had to be the chambers of the United States Supreme Court. “I’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court” has long been the …

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Marijuana is Good Medicine

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

WASHINGTON (LNS)—Marijuana may well be very good medicine for victims of tetanus, migraine, high blood pressure, and sunstroke, according to long-secret medical research just made public. Encouraging studies, done ten years ago at the Army chemical warfare laboratory at the …

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Rise Dead

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

WASHINGTON (LNS/CPS) — There may be almost twice as many American deaths in Vietnam as the Defense Department claims. Former Senator Wayne Morse has charged the Defense Department has two sets of death statistics: the real ones and those released …

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Growing No

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

CHICAGO (LNS)—Across America, the GI movement and draft resistance are growing. Stockade rebellions, GI coffee houses, draft board demonstrations and induction refusals have been the most visible forms of resistance to the U.S. Army. The Chicago Area Draft Resisters (CADRE) …

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Pig Media Joins Police

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

NEW YORK (LNS) — On January 26, two men identifying themselves as “being from the government” dropped a subpoena off at CBS.

Creatures Indicted

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Fifth Estate # 99, February 19-March 4, 1970

San Francisco (LNS) — The people of People’s Park received token retribution recently. Twelve sheriffs deputies involved in the struggle last May were indicted by a San Francisco Grand Jury on charges of conspiring to mistreat prisoners (many of the …

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