Lenny Bruce

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

Lenny Bruce was one of the greatest comedians of his time. On stage, he tried to make his audiences realize that sex is just one of many everyday functions in life and should be brought out into the open and …

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Miners pick new president

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

Tens of thousands of miners across the country are voting this month, under the scrutiny of Federal government officials, to elect a new president in the scandal-ridden United Mine Workers union.

Foreman killing

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

The inhuman conditions of the assembly line claimed two more victims at Chrysler’s Jefferson Assembly Plant in Detroit on December 7. On that day a worker, bitter over his recent lay-off, shot and killed a general foreman in the plant’s …

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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.