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The Spirit of Revolution
Ours is the age of, as a West German newsmagazine
calls it, "The Spirit of Revolution."
Governments are virtually brought to a standstill through
kidnappings or assassinations of high officials.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns that revolu–
tionaries within the United States may soon try the kidnap
strategy in an attempt to bring clown the Federal govcrnment.
Bombing of policc stations and shootings of policemen
and other public authorities are other tactics employed by
the revolutionaries.
The first two thirds of the year chronicled upwards of
2,000 bombings. At least 50 cities experienced terrorist
violence.
In the same eight-month period, 16 policemen were
slain in unexpccted and unprovoked attacks. Official sources
es
timate more than
1
,000 officers had been deliberately
assaulted.
At the annual convention of the International Associa–
tion of Chiefs of Police, Quino Tamm, Executive Director of
the JACP, called the attacks "a grave threat to the very
foundation of our governmcnt," a situation "unprecedented
in the annals of law enforcement." He went on to declare
that guerrilla warfare would not be allowed to drive police
from the streets. "Our country could not survive it."
Holding up submachine guns, grenades, and mortars
before the Senate Interna! Security Subcommittee, Charles
O'Brien, Deputy Attorney General of California, stated that
revolutionary groups are so heavily armed that the state faces
"the continuing speclre of a situation in which the police are
literally out-gunned." "l don't think there is any question
that the Weatherman faction of SOS [Students for a Demo–
cratic Society] and the Black Panthers are engaged in a
conspiracy," O'Brien went on to say. "Their own publications
are clear proof."
One artidc in an "underground" newspaper in Wash–
ington, D.
C.,
declared: "All self-defense groups must strike
blows against the slavemaster until we have secured our sur–
viva! as a people and if this takes shooting every pig and
blowing up every pigsty then let's get on up."
Jncluded in Lhe inflammatory article were instructions for
manufacturing explosives, plus a map of city police stations.
Subcommittee chairman James Eastland called this "war
against police" part of "a wave of guerrilla warfare which
threatens to undermine a pillar of law and order fcom end to
Wlde World Photo
New York City Police Headquarters second f loor
"nerve center" shattered by bomb explosion.
end of this nation." And Mr. O'Brien added that violence
against police
is
also a result of an "increasingly violent
atmosphere, and growing disrespect for life" affiicting the
United States.
The big question now is this: Will tbe United States
and other Western nations be able to meet the challenge of
this new-style civil war which has been declared by the agents
of "The Spirit of Revolution"?
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What New Census Found
The preliminary findings of the 1970 census have
revealed two significant trends for the U. S. population.
First, the farm population of the nation nose-dived from
15 million in
1960
to 10 million in 1970. Those remaining
on the farm now comprise only
.5%
of tbe population.
Second, the central cities lost population to the suburbs.
For the first time, more Americans live in the suburbs of