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Dear High Times High Times arrived today. On first impression far fucking out. This size and stapling are brilliant ideas, it’s a great size to handle and allows for the apparent use of more color. The logo (and the name) are beaut­ iful and the idea for the cover is great. On my first leaf through it reminded me very much of John Wilcock’s Other Scenes— not a bad reminder at all. Generally 1 like the layout — the heads are good and the copy looks nice. The comic book is great — at least as high a standard as the stuff published here (which isn’t saying much), still there’s stuff that doesn’t turn me on much—Customs and Obscenity for example. Still it’s really fine, page by page; small notes could have had more in it, couldn’t it, 2 pages of Lennon’s Art seems a bit small, esp­ ecially with that Erotica Explosion article which

seemed pretty pointless surely something on Australian erotica would have been better (or another Albie Thoms thing). The Dope File thing took a lot of space to say fuck all. The Crashhot Crossword is a work of genius. The next 3 bits of Erotic Art are beautiful, I liked the colored borders too— where do the photos come from? I liked the layout of the Gay article — is the photo on the final page a mistake or is all that black intentional? The Food page is lovely as is Bear Facts - just about the nicest thing in the whole paper. Why the reprints from Come Out — 12 pages are devoted to sex (both political and erotic) but more of that later. Fucking for chastity didn’t come out too well and why that poem? Syrius for Christ Sake, what a waste! Tony Convey 1 really like as a record reviewer. I’m real glad you used him — the

book reviews didn’t turn me on much. Editorial — a good place for it and the back page is brilliant. So — the layout 1 really like (no page numbers and that shit good use of borders, more experiments will have to be done with color - is there a policy of no by-lines or no acknowledgement of lifting?The content'is another matter — on first glance it is very alive, very close to the Australian scene, very real (Revolution always seemed to exist in a vaccuum) but on closer examination it falls apart a bit. It doesn’t really say very much — in fact the comics and the art work hold it together and give it its cultural integrity. I suppose I just don’t like the balance of written material in it the one musical article is for shit, in proportion there seemed too much emphasis on matters sexual (how the fuck did you get it printed? ), little politics (I don’t just mean overt stuff) no news hardly at all - in fact little to make the magazine more than a pleasant object d ’art. There, I’ve burnt myself out doing all that criticism I still reckon it’s miles better than anything I’ve: seen from anywhere, Goodonyer Mate JOHN HAWKES SANTA BARBARA CALIFORNIA USA John Hawkes is an ex-editor, and founder o f R E V O LU T IO N

Published by M. A. McFarland, 217 Canning St., Carlton, for High Times, 217 Canning St., Carlton, and printed Patrick D. Hegarty for Waverley Offset Printers Pty. Ltd., 33 Railway Parade North, Glen Waverley.

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small notes P O LLU TIO N CARE K ILLS The huge m ining investment group, Charter C onsolidated, whose interests stretch fro m Portugal to South A frica , is the latest company to ju m p on the enviorm ental band wagon. They state — " A m ajor awakening is now taking place concerning the damage to the enviorm ent caused by p o llu tio n ." When is the awakening starting? Consider Charter subsiduary, the Cape Asbestos group (proud to provide o n e -fifth o f the Charter p ro fits, yet the group o n ly get passing m ention in their annual reports.) The group mines amosite w hich is the raw material fro m w hich asbestos is made. Am osite dust can cause respiratory illness, including pheumocionsis.

Heroin turns purple, as do m orphine and opium , when p u t in bag A . Codein goes orange and then ye llo w in bag B. Barbituates in bag C go purple, w hile L.S.D. goes blue in bag D. In the fin a l bag, E, marijuana, goes slate grey, changing to lig h t blue, then violet. Psychadelic! PANTER

POWER

A Harvard m icro b io lo g ist w h o won the 1970 Eli L illy award fo r being the firs t to isolate a pure gene said recently he w ill tu rn the $1000 honorarium over to the Black Panther Party. Dr. Jonathan R. B eckw ith, 34, -j x explained th a t ''m y concern about the misuses o f science in this co u n try has increased and m y feeling o f the necessity fo r scientists to take clear positions has increased".

Between 1966 and 1970, 27 black workers died in the mines, m ainly from respiratory illnesses. In the same five years, 1032 employees le ft the company because o f 'in d u stria l incapacitation'.

He said he was giving the money to the Panthers to help "an organisation w hich I believe is making some im p o rta n t c o n trib u tio n s to changing society so th a t it serves the people".

That is, the amosite dust had clogged th e ir lungs up. In 277 cases the specific cause was pneumoconiosis.

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It is a w ell w orn, though, still valid argument th a t to pay decent wages to black w orkers in South A frica w ould underm ine the p ro fita b ility o f investment there. But if, in a d d itio n , companies had to provide healthy w orking conditions and adequate compensation fo r those w h o do fa ll ill, then the w hole o f South A frica's w hite-run m ining industry w ould collapse. PERFECT DRUG TESTS The head o f the Chelsea Pharmacy College, Professor A rn o ld Beckett, has perfected methods to detect up to 150 d iffe re n t drugs through urine samples. The system, called the Narcotics Id e n tific a tio n system (N IS), consists o f five bags marked A,B ,C ,D , and E. The m ixtu re o f certain drugs w ith certain acids or alkalis in the bags w ill determ ine w hether the sample does in fact have drugs in it.

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John Gabree, Carole Ramer and John G iorno (of dial-apoem). But you're part o f it t o o - all you have to do is a 25 m inute b it (or a five m inute talk show), put it dow n on a 7 inch reel at 7Vz ips, and mail it o ff to W PAX, PO Box 410, Cooper S ta tio n , New Y o rk C ity , 10003. If you d o n 't have the tape fa cilitie s, send them a note about w hat you w ant to do and th e y 'll schedule a tim e fo r you in th e ir New Y o rk studios, (though it's d o u b tfu l th e y 'll fo o t the b ill fo r the fare !)

GAS In 1930 the B ritish, and at th a t tim e speaking fo r A ustralia, were keen to agree at Geneva th a t the use o f Lachrym atory gases — tear gases — was prohibited in war. The British Government is now in ­ sisting th a t C.S. and o ther gases do not fall w ith in the Geneva protoco l, and as such are not p ro h ib ited in war, in fact the V ietnam war, in w hich A ustralia is actively involved. A war in w hich one A ustralian o fficer has already died during a gas attack.

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L IB E R A T IO N

Pushing fo r Pot

Hey! You o u t there in Radioland! Alw ays wanted to be a disc jockey? W ell, here it is!

San Francisco— A C alifornia com pany is m arketing a new brand o f c ig a re tte ro llin g papers called Acapulco Gold and w ill use the p ro fits fo r a n a tio n ­ w ide campaign to legalize marijuana; Dr. Michael A ld ric h , e d ito r o f THE M A R IJ U A N A R EV IE W , and a business partner, Blair Newman, w ill d istrib u te the papers through A m o rp h ia , Inc. — a n o n p ro fit 'Cannabis C o -o p e ra tiv e ' th a t hopes to capture at least ten percent o f the current cigarette-papers m arket and earn about $150,000 a year. P rofits w ill finance a p u b lic ity advertising campaign to persuade m iddle class Am erica th a t present p o t laws are unnecessary, unw orkable, socially harm ful and serve to aggravate the real problem o f opiate and am ph­

WPAX New Y o rk is looking fo r 25 m inute shows w ith c o u n try / ro c k / R& B, a little ta lk and lots o f love. The tapes w ill be played fo r servicemen - by Radio Hanoi - fo r fo u r hours a day; the aim is to give boys in there a little o f th a t downhome feeling and a little o f the news th a t the A rm y sees f i t not to p rin t. The tapes have also been offered to the V oice o f Am erica. Radio Free Europe, the Arm ed Forces N etw ork and foreign FM stations. So far, Hanoi has been the o nly one to accept. The hard-core sta ff o f Radio S tation WPAX is A bbie H offm an, Rennie Davis (who negotiated fo r WPAX airing w ith the N orth Vietnamese delegation in Paris),

etamine abuse. A m o rp h ia , Inc. has the earliest pending application to tradem ark the name Acapulco G old.

In the e xtra o rd in a ry events w hich lead up to the sacking o f John G ordon as Prim e M inister and the m ore recent squabble over J o lly J o h n ’s jo u rn a lis tic efforts the role of the press, p o litic a l w rite rs and press p ro p rie to rs has been clearly illustrated. The fu ll extent of the P acker Plot has yet to be detailed and m ore p a rtic u la rly there has been no exam ination of w h a t’s in it fo r Frank Packer. S ir Frank is the typ ica l tyrant of old — co n sid e rin g all his em ployees to be his personal vassals. The T e le ’s office in S ydney is a disgusting d in g y hole w ith to ile ts and general staff co n d itio n s kept at a d irty disgusting m inim um . The cam paign against G orton by the P acker Press started fa irly soon after G o rto n ’s election. Packer had always been a M cM ahon man p a rtic u la rly because of his d islike of the co u n try party econom ic policies. He believed the country party has vague so cia list leanings. Under G o rto n ’s reign he believed these were com ing to fru itio n in such things as the A u stralian W ool C om m ission. These beliefs represent the laissez fa ire ca p italism of the nineteenth century w h ich still ch aracterize so m any big businessm en as opposed to the leaders of the co rp o ra tio n s such as B.H.P. Therefore, nearly all governm ent econom ic in itia tive s are d e scribed as s o c ia lis tic and an encroachm ent on the individua l. There were m any other issues on w hich G orton ran foul of S ir Frank — the action to protect MLC from foreign take­ over, the do w n -p la yin g of the co m m unist bogey approach to the A.L.P. and states right. All these id e o lo g ica l co n sideratio ns are im portant in the m ind of a pow er-driven man such as S ir Frank. But was it enough to prom ote the vendetta that he conducte d? P acker has alw ays believed he is a man of im m ense power — a man w ho can go stra ig h t to the top of governm ent and get a hearing and usually action. G orton refused to be so blustered. It is understood that S ir Frank did not always get the interview s he asked fo r — he d id n ’t always get a sym ­ pathetic hearing. B illy M cM ahon is a to ta lly d iffe re n t person­ ality. A constant ditherer, as the last w eek or so has illu stra te d , B illy m akes incessant phone ca lls to leading party m em bers and business supporters such as S ir Frank w hen­ ever he is tryin g to make up his m ind. A part from being fla tte rin g to P acker it also means he know s w hat is going on and has plenty of o p p o rtu n itie s to exert pressure. In this latest governm ent rum pus, S ir Frank to o k the m ost unusual step of m aking a p u blic statem ent giving fu ll su p p o rt fo r B illy and te llin g him that he should sack J o lly John. In the long term S ir Frank’s statem ent could prove to be a m ajor in d iscre tio n . S acking G orton w ill now be said to have been done at the behest of Packer. The w hole P acker Plot th e o ry seems to be confirm ed. However, S ir Frank ap p a re n tly had som e­ th in g much m ore rew arding in m ind. O ver the past few m onths P acker has been attem pting to get B illy to cancel the th ird com m ercial te le visio n licenses in M elbourne and Sydney. It is understood that P acker and The Herald and Weekly Times have com bined to bring about the end of M e lb o u rn e ’s Channel O and S yd n e y’s Channel 10. They have got the co-

operation of Reg A nsett and the ow ners of Channel 10 by offering them a share in The Herald and P acker em pires resp ectively as w ell as som e fina ncia l enducem ent. The w hole fin an cial deal w ould be w o rth ­ less if the governm ent w ere not to perm an­ ently cancel the license and hence the pres­ sure on B illy McM ahon. This is not the first tim e that P acker and The Herald have attem pted to blo ck the th ird com m ercial licenses. They co nd ucte d a sus­ tained cam paign to stop M enzies in tro d u cin g it in the firs t place. But M enzies was con­ cerned at the way the new spaper co rp o ra ­ tions had com e to co m p le te ly dom inate all television th ro u g h o u t A ustralia. Hence the third licences w ere given to non-new spaper interests. N aturally the ca n ce lla tio n of the th ird licence w ould c om p lete ly a lter the e conom ics of the television in du stry in the p ro p rie to r’s favor. Instead of three sharing the advertising revenue it w ill be two. B efore going onto the role o f one Rupert M urdoch in this tale it is im p ortan t to set out exa ctly w hat w ay the new spaper pro prietors are able to exercise such influence in Can­ berra. The sim ple answ er is th at the new spapers have a big influence on general ele ctio ns because they are a m ajor fa c to r in the form a­ tion of p u b lic opinion. A lthough the news­ papers are of m ore im portance in opinion form ation than m ost academ ics w ould have it, nevertheless the evidence ce rta in ly rules out the p o s s ib ility of mass o pinion changes as the result of newspapers. Rather the answ er lies in an observation made by M ungo M acC ullum fo r the Sunday Review that nearly all p o litic ia n s are para­ noid. N early all are avid readers o f all the new spapers and take to heart any critic ism giving it an im portance w ell above any in flu ­ ence the c ritic is m has at least as fa r as public opinion. It is an interesting fa c t tha t the papers w hich have the m ost influence in liberal party and business c irc le s are usually s ig n ific a n t co n trib u to rs of funds. A nother im p o rtant fa cto r is that in the absence of o th er in d i­ cators of p u b lic o pinion the new sapers are a day to day guide w hich p o litic ia n s find hard to ignore. When Rupert M urdoch inherited his fa th e r’s new spapers in South A u stra lia over ten years ago he was considered to be the young radical. There w ere num erous rum ors around that young Rupert had been involved in the Labor Club at O xford Uni. His recent three week home v is it from B ritain to inspect his colo nia l em pire provided am ple evidence that Rupert is tryin g to em ulate his arch enem y S ir Frank. R upert ranted and raved through his various offices th ro u g h o u t A ustralia. On at least tw o o ccasions he raged through

offices of The Australian sw eeping decks clean of files and papers and generally cre a t­ ing havoc. Bruce Petty was once again warned that there was a lim it to the radical cartoons that Rupert could take. E ditor A drian Deam er was sacked as Rupert w afled on about the paper tu rn in g into a P.R. sheet fo r protestors. Anyw ay the paper was m uch too academ ic Rupert said, so C anberra co rrespond ent Ken Randall was q u ickly moved. R upert said The Australian had started all the fuss about the S pringboks so the e d ito ria l line on that q u ic k ly changed and w h a t’s m ore the unions are running the co u n try so the e d ito ria ls on Bob Hawke cam e th ic k and fast. In all this Rupert paid a visit to see Billy. A fte r tw o hours Rupert decided he did not like o ur new Prim e M inister. The m eeting was on a Friday. The fo llo w in g M onday new Can­ berra correspond ent Alan Ramsey w rote a th in k piece w ith a headline on it describing B illy as “ a nasty little tw e rp ” . W hether this hatred o f B illy is one of R upert’s quirks or w hether it has some other basis is hard to say. It is not unfair to point out that S ir Frank and Rupert have long been enem ies p a rtic u la rly as S ir Frank is jealous of R upert’s a b ility to make money. It is also of note that Rupert has only a m inor stake in the television field m uch to his chagrin. W hether S ir F rank’s efforts to get rid of the th ird tele­ vision station had anything to do w ith R upert’s attitude is hard to say. But R upert’s cam paign did not rest with ca llin g B illy names. In co n ju n ctio n w ith his great scoop w ith G orton doing it his way, The Australian has taken a glow ing approach to G orton and roundly condem ned Billy. G o rto n ’s jo u rn a lis tic efforts w ere in fa ct not made at the suggestion of Rupert. Rather G orton is understood to have firs t approached The Age and possibly the Sydney Morning Herald at the same time. W hen he got a knock back there the offer was made to M urdoch. The price is an agreem ent to pay G orton $1,000,000 fo r his eventual m em oirs, but no m oney has actu a lly changed hands fo r the articles them selves. A ustralian jo u rn a list Elizabeth Riddle was given the job of ghosting the series although she has w ritte n only sec­ tions in cluding the b rillia n t de scrip tio n of P acker’s Canberra w rite r Alan Reid. W hatever happens in the ensuing weeks, the episode has dem onstrated certain basic truths w hich have been fo r so long denied. It can never be denied that the mass media and p a rticu la rly the new spaper p roprietors are as im portant p o litic a l actors as the p o liticians them selves. S econdly it has dem onstrated cle a rly the real basis of pow er in the Liberal Party w ith its in cre d ib le intertw inem en t in the business w orld. BY THE HIGH TIM ES SPORTS COMPUTER

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These poems were collected by Bill Knox while serving as a medical officer in Viet Nam. Bill is now studying Asian Cultural Languages at A.C.T., having decided that army and medical life to be more myth than reality.

Battle

Strike

FLYING ‘EM HOME I used to live a life, a fighter pilot’s dream. Flying ’em south: That’s all I’d ever seen. Napalm and H —drags that’s all I’ve ever dropped; Then one day the Frag. Changad, my eyeballs popped.

Litter Mission; man that’s notforire:

I den’t want to go up there with that ZPU and 23; I den’t want no road cuts, I don’t want no guns; I just want to fly down south; barbing, having fun. In—flight refuelling, that’s too far to ga; I’ve got a rendezvous with a gunner: I know! Sick75Qs; that’s my calling card: Aid when I hit ’em, I hit ’emhard. “Cause nobody hears you crying, when you start to ay:

“Ch, my hangover, I’m feeling like I’ll die.” ‘That’s too bad bey, get out there and fly.”

But if I ever fly down south agpin, Everybody at Seventh will be rry friend; I don’t like those guns they’ve gat so many of: The hdl with war;

Let’s make love.

Starting in the morning sun, I'll be driving when the evening comes. Watching the Phantoms roll in. And I watch them pull back up again.

cab of my truck Sung to the Tune:

Dock of the Bay

Oh, I'm sitting in the cab of my truck Thinking life ain't a game. Sitting in the cab of my truck, filing my chains. ’z z r

left my home in Dong Hoi. Headed for the D M Z . had something to live for A people's hero I was going to be

------- /Well I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck Looking at a B52 raid. Sitting in the cab of my truck filing mv chains]

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I Well I'm sitting on this ridge so tight, 'Cause I think that Spectre is due back tonight; Tw o thousand bombs I've seen. T ryin ' to end this crazy scene.

Yes I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck. I'm just sitting in the cab of my truck watchin' the bombs fall like rain.

armed reconnaissance Suddenly your haul steps as you see die thing you dead: Triple A is coming up; it fills die sky ahead. You make a turn to left, and dial you break up hard and rkjht; Then you’re wingman’s in with CPU and it’s a pretty sigjit.

In the skies of South East Asia where the fighter pilots dwell There’s a rrission you will fly a lot; you gpt to know it well: They call it Armed Reconnaissance, you fly it fast and low, In (lie southern port of Package—O x that’s known as Tally—Hb. You’re briefed on the defenses all along the route you fly: You’re seared but still you’ve got to go, and so you take to die sky. You get pre-strike refuelling and you take it right on down; You cross the post at Butterfly and start to move around. You’re headed for that route 1A; the road looks clean and hire; But a truck is nighty lwd to see from one nile in die air. You know you’ve got to take it down and your heart is in your mouth; Now dead ahead’s die feny —dial’s die point you’ll turn luck soudi. And now we’re heading south again and really moving around To nuke a tougher tai^jet for die gunners on the ground And it’s dim you see the convoy sitting still beside die rood. Am up your switdies and prepare to durrp your load. Touch off after—burner and pop up into die sun; But keep die convoy in you' sight and start to moke you-run. Thai die gunners start to shoot again, you see die flak ahead. Then it’s 1ousting all around you and die sky is filled vvidi laid; You can’t go left, you can’t go right, die flak is all round. So keep die convoy in your sight, and keep on boring down, Aid pickle off your borrb laid, and dien pull and trust to luck lliat die Triple A will rriss you and your bonis will hit die trucks. But die flak is caring closer and ycur eyes are filled with tears, And before you readi die coast-line you have aged a hundred years. And suddenly you are out of it; die water is down below, Breathe easy now but don’t relax ’cause sure as hell you knovV ’Ihat tomorrow is another day and once again you’ll gp To die soudiem part of Package-Gie mid recce Tally-Ho.

Brazil: torture and assass ination Torture as a Political Weapon: In the case of torture of common criminals and suspects the aim is to extract a confession, even if false, but the torture of politjcal prisoners is more meticulous and the purpose in these cases is to procure authentic information about their organisations. During the four years of the government of General Ongania (1966 1970) more than 16,000 political prisoners passed through the jails or Argentina. Hundreds of these were tortured. With the appearance of guerillas the system was made more rigorous. Already in 1968 the Peronist guerillas captured at Tace Ralo were subject to prolonged sessions of beatings and the picana. All guerillas By ordering the burning of the instruments of torture, the Assembly of 1813 tried to break with one of the greatest iniquities of Spanish colonial­ ism, inherited from the Inquisition. Neverthe­ less, this act of such great importance was, with monstrous irony, very quickly, changed, given that since then, and especially in recent years, torture has been systematically applied to pol­ itical prisoners. In Argentina, as in Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, torture is simply a routine method of police invest­ igation. This abberant custom has penetrated into our environment to such an extent that police

reporters now utilise euphonisms such as "exhaust­ ive and able interrogation”, which do not quite succeed in concealing the truth. The essential reason for the use of torture in Argentina - which as we shall see later is often a crime in itself - is the existence of profound social inequalities; where there exists the exploi­ tation of man by man there co-exists repression . detained in Argentina are tortured to the limit of their endurance. In April 1969, a guerilla, Carlos Caride engaged in a shootout with the Federal Police and Killed one of their men. A dozen police beat him up and later he suffered four hours of the picana. When sometime later a guerilla of the FAL, Juan Carlos Cibelli, was arrested, the procedure had become so routine that all the papers of the country published without comment a photo of Cibelli in which he appeared with his face swollen and an eye completely closed as a result of blows. At the beginning of 1970 the Police were near to desperation over their lack of information about the guerillas. When in the month of March a stroke of luck permitted them to capture two guerillas of the FAL a terrible fury was launched against them. Aleiandre Baidu died very shortly afterwards on the table of the torture chamber, and Carlos Della Nave was punished to the limit of human

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endurance. In order to publicize these events which up till that time had remained a secret, the FAL kidnapped the Paraguayan diplomat, Waldeinar Sancliez. Ongania declined to neg­ otiate but had to show Delia Nave to the public. He was exhibited on television in very bad shape and medical examination revealed plainly that he had been tortured. Systematic Torture: Among the places which have merited popular reputations as torture chambers are the H’Q’ of the ex ‘Coordinacion Federal’ at 1400 Calle Moreno and the Regional Units of Greater Buenos Aires, among them, those in San Martin, Lanus, Avellaneda, Moron, San Justo. These five branches depend on the Provincial police who work very closely with the Federal police. In those cases which re­ quire prolonged treatement, the prisoners are taken, conveniently handcuffed and blindfolded, to supposed weekend houses in the country, rented for the purpose, or to sordid, apparently abandoned shacks. In some police vehicles there are battery operated picanas. The Police consult with their own doctors as to the cardiac resistance of the prisoners. With sadistic predeliction, the torturers apply the picana to the erogenous zones, lips, ears, anus, testicles, penis, breasts and vagina, reinforcing the effect by first moisten­ ing the body of their victim. The marks which this instrument leave on the body disappear within a week, and in order that medical witnesses cannot prove that torture has been applied the police, and some judges, prolong the detention of prisoners, incommunicade. to the legal limit of eight days. With these methods the Argentine police boast that they solve 80% of the crimes com­ mitted in the country. Neverthless, when the cases arrive in court only 10CA result in con­ victions. The Militarists in power demonstrate more understanding than the judges and allow the police to have charge of the examination for trial, so that a confession extracted under torture is now converted into legal proof. The number of convictions has increased, but few jurists are bold enough to deny that the police examination and the detention incommunicado for 8 days constitutes the legalisation of the use of torture. Assasination Squads: In Argentina in the last decade there have functioned various ‘Squadrons ol Death , similar to those in Brazil. They are called ‘Investigation Brigades’ and are situated in the most densely populated zones of the workingclass areas around Buenos Aires: Quilmes,

Avellaneda, Lanus, San Juste, San Martin, Martinez, and belong to the police of Buenos Aires Province which with 28,000 men has become the greatest repressive force in the country, surpassing the Federal Police, whose Brigade of Robbery and Theft (Brigada de Robos y Hurtos) on certain occasions also acts as a Squadron of Death. The Brazillian Squadrons of Death more clandestinely, and their members act outside of their official working hours and outside of their official capacities, to liquidate drug trafficers, thieves, and murderers without trial and outside the control of the courts. The procedure in Argentina is carried out in ordinary working hours by police personnel who openly identify themselves as such.

and are rewarded and promoted for their executions. Judicial sources in the Province of Buenos Aires estimate that between 1960 and 1970 the police were involved in 1O0O shootings. The procedure is simple. In their period­ ical sweeps of the working class districts and “villas miserias” of greater Buenos Aires, the police detain hundreds of suspects whose antecedents are checked at Head Quarters. If any of these detainees have lengthy records they run the risk of being taken by the Brigades and shot. Later the Courts and the newspapers are told that a dangerous criminal has attached the police who were obliged to return the fire. In recent times some police have become so

impatient that they have been known to exe­ cute up to four presumed criminals in a single “tiroteo” (shootout). One such as this occurred in May 1970 at a police station at Ramos Mejia, commanded by Saul Alonso. The procedure has become so scandalous that simply by reading the newspaper report it is possible to tell whether there has been a bona fide gun battle or an execution. The modus operandi of the assasination squads has three unmistakable characteristics. 1. The incident takes place in the early hours of the morning between midnight and 6am. 2. The ‘gun battle’ takes place in open country. 3. There are no wounded, and no survivors, and needless to say, no witnesses. For every policeman killed in Buenos Aires Province 10'criminals die. The estimate of the Buenos Aires police is much more modest: 2 to 1. In the rest of the country, and in the rest of the world, they maintain a proportion of one to one, the difference consisting of men previously captured and disarmed. The assisination squads liquidate anually hundreds, and not all are criminals. In one of the many cases which have occured two humble workers were killed while sleeping during siesta. In another case 3 bodies were delivered to the Coroner with the arms extended forwards, the hands together; they had been shot with their hands tied and the onset of rig9r mortis had not permitted them to be located in a less revealing position. The deaths of children, nevertheless, can be charged to the police too. On 26th January 1968, a police patrol in search of a fugitive, fired their submachine guns at two boys of 15 and 16 and left them badly wounded. The boys, Seijo and Fontan died. The police recovered their freedom 41 days later, and denied the charges against them. One of the three police involved was Ediz Araujo, who participated in 1962 in the kidnapping, torture and murder of Felipe Vallese, in spite of the fact that in 1968 he had not been auth­ orised by his superiors to be on active duty. The Political Brigades: With the accentuation of worker and student opposition to the military regime, and with the upsurge of urban guerilla?, the type of violence usually applied to. criminal delinquents was transferred to political militants. It is difficult neverthless to find judges who will condone political assasinations, so the methods had to change. As a matter of fact, the judges them­ selves were the first victims of the clandestine groups formed within the police organisations,

especially within the ‘Coordinacion Federal’, COie'HawlaO themselves “Loss Halcones” The Hand of the CIA In All This? Alfa 66 is a group of exiled Cubans formed to harass Fidel Castro from Miami. MANO was created by the present President of Guatemala, Col. Carlos Arana Ossorio, who directed the anti-guerilla campaigns. Organisations using the same names have appeared in the Dominican Republic where President Bosch announced in August 1970 that MANO had planned his assasination; and in Bolivia where Alfa 66 had made 100 attacks up till October. The suspicion that both these organisations are supported by the CIA of North America has been-repeatedly expressed. Their presence amongthe police of Argentina cannot be discounted. The relationship between the Argentine and the North American police organisations is a close one. A great number of Latin American police officials nave graduated from the Interamerican Police Academy in Washington, and from other schools in the United States, and many of these graduates are Argentines. One of these graduates is the Second in Command of the Federal Police of Argentina, Inspector General Nevarra. At times North American police are sent as instructors to Argentina. Among them there has been the Chief of Police of San Francisco, Thomas Cahill, and the Chief of Police of Missouri Edmund Hochaday, who in 1969 ran various courses in Buenos Aires over a period of several months. Whatever may be the relationship, there is no doubt that the “Hawks” are Argentinians, and* are connected with the highest echelons of the police and the armed forces. The parallel power which they exercise has been the cause of disputes. In September 1970 a sensational purge decapitated the staff of the Federal Police, and about 30 of the highest officers passed into retirement at the advice o f the armed forces. Among these functionaries fallen into disgrace was Inspector General Alejandro Roque Virasoro who directed a great part of the political investigations in the last stages of the government of Ongania and witnessed the torture of many political prisoners. In spite of this, he affirmed that torture was one of the elements in the resources available to police investigators. The dominant position that Virasoro held in the Argentine police has been occupied by InspectorMajor Alfredo Benigno Castre, director of the ‘Orden Politice Social’, an ultra-gorilla organisation in the Brazillian style. Translated from the Journal “AMERICA LATINA” published in Buenos Aires Issue of May 1971, Year 4, Number II

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Wigoder Q.C. ( handled Rudi Dutshke and others). He seemed enthusiastic, b u t an hour later called back and pulled o u t. He fe lt the defendants w ould make a circus o f the tria l. He was assured this w o u ld n 't be so, b u t rang back in fifte e n m inutes and pulled o u t com pletely. So the defendants made another i appeal fo r an adjournm ent, w ith no luck. So this meant they had no Q .C . and o nly fo u r days before the tria l. Things did w o rk o u t, but as Richard Neville said at the tim e, "T h is has th ro w n the defence strategy in to absolute chaos." The firs t day was fa irly uneventful, apart fro m the Friends o f OZ procession, w ith Honey Bunch K am inski, tw e n ty fo o t tall in paper mache leading. C ontrary to reports in the national press, n o t one H ippie

was barefooted. In c o u rt the defendants challenged 26 ju ro rs and ended up w ith 8 middle-aged men, 3 middle-aged w om en, and one young guy who looked tired b u t p o te n tia lly sym ­ pathetic. He called him self an anarchist and refused to swear on the Bible. Judge Argyle offered to step dow n in view o f the fa ct th a t he m ight be unsym pathic. In reply to his o ffe r Neville said, " In view o f the alternative, I have no o b je c tio n .". The Old Bailey co u rt is so small th a t tw o hundred people could not get in. In fa ct th e y were threatened w ith arrest on o b stru ctio n . One policeman said, "We can't have you hippies going in and o u t like that. It spoils the d ig n ity o f our c o u rtro o m ."

In this trial, as with most of the Judge A rgyle dismissed Richard alternative trials, the bad guys were Neville's eloquent explanations at their best while the good guys got the worst. Here are some of the more o f the p o litica l question by saying interesting and odd moments: "M r. Neville must have meant th a t the tria l this year coincided w ith V ivian Berger and his m other were last year's p o litica l elections.'' pulled fro m the co u rtro o m by more then 6 policemen. Denis Felix was accused o f giving the com m unist armload sign by V ivian's m other (national President the judge when in fa ct it was the p o w e r - to - th e people sign. o f the Council o f C ivil Liberties in England) was called a liar by Judge A rgyle, w ho also called V ivian a police inform er. m et the editors. "We were to ld it was basically our e d itio n , w hich we could edit. The defendants w ould o n ly assist in the p ro d u c tio n ."

So the tria l progressed. Detective Inspector L u ff (the arresting o ffic e r) was hard at w o rk . When a new witness was introduced he w ould ofte n leave the co u rt and return laden w ith publications w ritte n by the witness; these were referred to in cross exam­ ina tion. L u ff was said to have a m ountain o f John Lennon's w orks ready, fo llo w in g rum ours th a t he was to be called as a defence witness.

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Questions were asked on: drugs, other more 'honest' magazines, conspiracy to c o rru p t, R upert Bear, sex education, lesbians, covers and so on. On M onday, Ju ly 5 th , Michael Schofield was called fo r the defence, and was the firs t witness to become angry and agressive under cross exam ination. He accused Leary (the prosecutor) o f analysing and m agnifying seperate details in a way no o rdin ary person w ou ld . Asked about the R upert Bear cartoon, Schofield said it w ould have no effe ct at all. It was n o t about a human situatio n , b u t ju st about a bear. He to ld Leary he w asn't an expert on Bears. His closing rem ark to the prosecution on the subject o f OZ 28 was, " I t does prom ote change. This is w h a t people are frightened o f. " V ivian Berger(the school boy w ho helped w rite OZ 28) was called as a prosecution witness. He to ld the co u rt th a t in A p ril last year, when he was 14, he had answered an advertisement in OZ asking young people to p u t fow ard ideas fo r an issue. He and 20 other young kids

involvem ent in OZ 28. In fa ct, one day it was 4 times. He said he had o n ly been searched once before his involvem ent w ith OZ. Friends o f Oz, w ith ex-M elbourne scene mover Stan D em idjuk, also made a w o rth y apprearance at the tria l. Doing great p u b lic ity things firs t to launch it suitably and then to keep it there before the public. Thousands o f little Honey Bunch Kam insky (the girl w ith the bare breasts and imposing phsique) stickers fo r sticking dow n around to w n . Large size posters, special T-shirts featurning some o f the court-room characters, three under aged virgins, a pregnant elephant and inspector L u ff all selling at $1.25 a longsleeved piece.

T w o interesting little pieces from one o f the Friends o f OZ W H A T THE PAPERS SAY Up till recently we had greeted the harassment o f OZ w ith o n ly sporadic bursts o f seriousness, as had many o f our friends. It was in stin ctively assumed th a t we could u ltim a te ly establish in co u rt th a t OZ did n o t deprave and c o rru p t â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even if it meant redefining the w hole concept o f obscenity. N otw ithstanding the perpetual ransacking o f our offices, we were aware th a t in less enlightened com m unities we w ould have been autom atically ja ile d . But it has fin a lly dawned upon us th a t the authorities in this co u n try take our publishing venture more seriously than we do. We discovered th a t the police had been w atching our houses fo r some tim e and they v irtu a lly adm itted to tapping our phones and keeping dossiers on triv ia l little know n facts o f our personal lives. So w h ile the fearful significance o f the OZ persecution has become belatedly

apparent to ourselves, many people are still more amused than amazed. The pickaxing o f this magazine is nothing less than po litica l censorship. OZ has relentlessly prom oted some elements o f the new culture — dope, rock 'n ' roll and fucking in the streets; it is the only magazine in this co u n try to consistently and constructively analyse the tension between the freak/ drop-o ut com m u nity flip p a ncy, guiltless sex and the permanent strike o f dropping o u t as part o f an emerging new c o m m u n ity, b u t p a in fu lly acknowledge the lim ita tio n s o f leeching on the present society and becoming stooges o f its consumer ju n k y is m . We appreciate th a t OZ antics are often adventuristic, escapist, dile tta n tish , narcissistic and juvenile; bu t we are congentially incapable o f facing a solemn fun free fu tu re , c u ttin g cane beneath some spartan banner o f liberation; we w ant only to play w ith our toys, not own them , and we are fum b ling towards a solution o f living and w o rking collectively — n o t fo r p ro fit w hich there a in 't — b u t because we love w hat we do and believe naively in a jo y fu l to m o rro w o f spiritual, em otional

and intellectual coitus non interruptus. FROM PRESENTING THE OZ T R IA L Taking in to account the fact th a t High C o u rt Judges get a basic $20,000 per annum, police salaries, paper w o rk , ju ry tim e and expenses, prosecuting counsel costs etc. the bringing o f these cases is a very expensive under taking. W hy, one wonders, should the English taxpayer have this enormous am ount o f money spent on his behalf to bring to law a few assorted publishers, w riters, cartoonists w ho have little to do w ith his life. The answer is that the police/gov­ ernment is in fact carrying on a political battle with the 'alternative society'. There is no other reason w h y the police, should repeatedly harrass OZ, IT , FRIENDS etc. The police have 'visited' Oz about 10 tim es, w anting specimen copies, on tw o occasions taking everything (d istrib u tio n files, accounts ledgers, thousands o f back issues o f Oz, personal letters

and papers, subscription lists) on one occasion removed even the filin g cabinet. They have also made frequent visits to the editors' homes and required them to spend tim e going to Scotland Y ard. This kind o f special atte ntion fro m the forces o f law and order is a serious infringem ent o f civil lib e rty. The police fla tte r the editors o f OZ by th in k in g th a t th e ir a b ility to influence the way people th in k and act is far greater themselves w ould consider. What is com pletely misunderstood is th a t the 'underground' exists, because there is an alternative lifestyle in this c o u n try. And because there is an alternative it is quite normal fo r it to produce its own literature, looniness, music and newspapers. N othing is going to be stopped by police rushing a around fu ll o f personal hatreds in the name o f 'the British P ublic'. A ll they do is spread the w ord faster. The police are the Underground's advertising agency.

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A GROUCHO MARX INTERVIEW INK: You're a hero for a generation that’s seen your films only in revival. GROUCHO: A couple of generations. GROUCHO: Duck Soup, Night at the Opera and Day at the Races. Some o f them were terrible. To us not to the audience. The kids, today .... I get more fan mail now than I aid when I was at the height of my career. INK: Why do you think kids love your movies so much? A lot of other old films, nobody wants to look at anymore. GROUCHO: They’re not about anything, most of them. I thought ours were generally about something. INK: What were they about? GROUCHO: They were attacking the contemporary establishment of those days. We did a picture called Duck Soup which was about monarchy. We aid a funny picture about a school and we certainly satirized the opera in America. So I think our pictures were about something. Whereas in most cases, Harold Lloyd, Keaton and those fellows - they weren’t about anything, they were just trying to be funny. We were trying to be funny, but we didn’t

know that we were satirizing- the current conditions. It came as a great surprise to us. INK: How do you feel about the establishment now? GROUCHO: I think it’s hopeless. This whole gang in Washington, at least half of them are thieves - 1 don’t think there’s any question about that. Every day you read about it. Look at the tolerance that Johnson gave to Bobby Baker, who’s now in gaol. This goes on all the time. The only honest senator I ever knew was a fellow named Williams, from Delaware. INK: John Bell Williams. GROUCHO: iji him and told him now much I admired his integrity, and that there should be more people like him. He finally quit. Not from the correspondence - 1 think he had had it. But he was an honest man. Look at the Speaker of the House, McCormack..... he stole everything before he left. And they gave him a bonus besides, because he didn’t steal enough. INK: Do yo any hope for Nixon? GROUCHO: No, I think the only hope this country has is Nixon’s assassination.

INK: But then we’ve got to deal with Agnew. GROUCHO: Well, I mean it would be near the end of the term. Agnew won’t run again. 1 don’t think. But I think' Muskie is a good man. The trouble is when you run for important office, you have to promise so much and you have obligated yourself so much. INK: How involved were you in the writing of the pictures': GROUCHO: I’ve always been a writer. I wrote five boolks. One is in the Congressional Library in Washington: “The Groucho Letters” . INK: Do you think there’ll ever be a second volume of that? GROUCHO: I don’t know. The cast I had in those days was pretty good: T.S. Eliot, Thurber, rred Allen. I spoke at T.S. Eliot’s funeral, you know. His wife asked me to. A very dull blonde middleage woman. INK: That seems to be true of a lot of very talented men - their wives seem to fade into the back­ ground. GROUCHO: Because, as a rule, a young fellow marries a girl to go to Ded with her. This is the normal procedure. I did that three times, with very beauti-

INK: What about compan­ ionship? GROUCHO: For that you need a different kind of girl you don’t necessarily need a girl with big tits. You need a girl that normally you wouldn t marry, or you wouldn’t try to lay. But if a fellow gets both, he’s a very fortunate man. If he gets a woman that he enjoys sitting with and talking to, and she understands what he’s saying lie’s a lucky fellow. You see, I don’t believe there’s such a thing as love. I believe two people can like each other and I think that’s much more important than love. Love just means going to bed and fucking. INK: I was curious how you see the films now, in retrospect. GROUCHO: A scene that I like is the scene in Animal Crackers where a painting had been stolen and Chico and [pulled up a couple of chairs and said, ‘Let’s see if we can figure this thing out, where the painting is.’ He said, ‘How are you gonna ao that? We have no house.’ I said, ‘We’ll build a house. This’ll be my room, and this’... be the maid’s room’. And he said, ‘You mean I’d have to go through the maid’s room in order to get to your room?’ It was kind of a Lewis Carroll scene. We had a fellow named Morrie Ryskind, who had a Lewis Carroll quality about him. He could take lunacy and build it up. (The waiter arrives with a large menu, hand-lettered on a large square of cardboard which he props up next to the table.)_______________________

INK: Did you write most of Animal Crackers? GROUCHO: No, we had Kaufman and Ryskind. I added stuff to it, but every first-class comedian is supposed to be able to do that. Otherwise you’re just a schlump you’re not a comedian, (to an iNKman) Are you a girl? INK: Am I a girl? GROUCHO: Yeah, a girl. INK: No, I’m not a girl. GROUCHO: I thought it was about time we settled that. INK: Are you taking about my hair? GROUCHO: No, it was the Moustache. Will you pass the pumpernickel, please? INK: Why can’t they make funny movies anymore?^ What did you have that they don’t have? GROUCHO: Well, to begin with we had talent. Then we had very good writers. And we spent a Vear on each picture. Elliott Gould has just made four ictures in five months. How can ley be any good? Especially since it’s just two people in bed fucking. It takes more than that.

GROUCHO: It’s kind of an LSD effect I guess. INK: That wasn’t exactly what I meant. 1 wondered whether, in 1935, the names of Cocteau or Jarry would have meant anything to you? GROUCHO: At that time, all I was reading was the New York Journal with editorials by William Rankolph Hearst. INK: So you say you weren’t influenced by the classic surrealists. GROUCHO: I had never heard of them in those days. I was too busy making a living in vaudeville. INK: Then you weren’t at all interested in art? GROUCHO: Not at all. Not in the pictures nor on the stage. I think I was a natural comedian, and I enjoyed doing that.

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INK: Many people who look at your films now see elements of surrealism and dada in them.

GROUCHO: No. I still feel the same way. I think we were very lucky that, with a limited amount of talent, we fooled the public successfully for many years.

Revolutionary violence

“ D on’t be tric k e d by talk. A rm yourselves and shoot to liv e .” “The fifth communication from the Weatherman Underground,” signed by Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jones and Bill Ayers and received the YIP office in New York on October 6 1970. Stanley Bond: No, / d on ’t th in k I’m g u ilty of any crim e. I p re se n te d a fo rm a l de claration of war, along w ith several o th er people. It was sent to the S ecretary of Defense of the U nited States. Question: Do you have any rea ction to the charges that are c u rre n tly against you? Bond: M urde r and a ll of that? Question: Yes. Bond: Well, you know, I do n ’t fe e l that an act of w ar is m urder. From the P hoenix (Boston underground weekly) Oct. 6. It is tim e that the no longer new New Left take a serious look at w here it is going and w hat it is becom ing. There is m uch th at must be said to the establishm ent c ritic s of m ove­ m ent viole nce — and in a m om ent I w ill sum m arize part of it— but that is not my m ajor concern here. My concern is w ith us. On Sunday, S eptem ber 20, the N ational G uard A rm o ry in N ew buryport, Mass., was robbed. Guns, hundreds of rounds of am m unition, fie ld telephones, other m ilita ry gea r and se cre t fe d e ra l and state papers were taken . . . The fo llo w in g W ednesday, a wom an and two men ro b b e d a Boston-area bank o f $26,000. An enthusia stic p ig was k ille d tryin g to stop them . . . A lo t is up in the a ir a bout the w hole affair, b u t it c le a rly is a m a jo r advance fo r the re vo lu tio n among w hites; bank rip -o ff fo r the m ovem ent, taking w hat was w anted from the arm ory and trash­ in g the rest, k illin g the p ig . . . It’s in creas­

in g ly necessary that p o litic a l ideas come cle a r with actions so that actions can be both good arm ed propaganda and m ilita ry successes. (O cto b e r 9-16 Tribe) There are serious argum ents that can be made fo r the uses of revolutiona ry violence, but this a rticle reads like an e d ito ria l from the New Y ork D aily News. The heroes and villia n s are reversed but the hysteria and mob psychology are the same. The crude celebration of the death of a fellow human being is the opposite of the feelings of com ­ passion and human s o lid a rity that charac­ terize all true revolutionaries including the Vietnamese. There is not even an expression of sadness fo r the p lig h t of the three cap­ tured men, who are back in prison after a few short m onths of liberty. One hopes that if the students em barked on the course a ttributed to them, they did so on the basis of a more careful appraisal of its p o litical and m ilita ry effects. In a serious revolutiona ry struggle, selfdeception is suicide. It can also lead to the wasted sa crifice of allies and com rades. Nothing is ever certain in history but every serious revolutiona ry has a re sp o n sib ility not to engage in self-in d u lg e n t rhetoric. Loss of realism is as harm ful as loss of hum anity. In fa c t the tw o go hand in hand. An abstract w orld of revolutionary rh e to ric and delusions of im m inent victo ry replaces the real w orld of human beings and actual po litica l forces. Being placed on the Ten M ost W anted List of the F.B.I. becom es sure proof of political relevance, although bank robbers and bom bthrow ers have always been put on such a list, even when there was no sig n ifica n t p o litical struggle in the country. The same w eek that the Tribe exulted in the Boston action as a m ajor advance for

the revolution am ong w hites, the T ribe ’s Berkeley rival, the Barb hailed fo u r West Coast bom bings in to ta lly u n re a listic term s: BOMBS AW AY Thursday was bom b day on the P acific Coast, as fo u r eggs were p u t in the d ino sau r’s nest. A t the U niversity of W ashington, the Navy ROTC b u ild in g had its w indow s blow n out. A t Santa Barbara, A N ational G uard arm ory was d estroyed . . . M eanw hile on the U.C. cam pus, B e rke le y’s p ig s fo u nd and d is­ arm ed a bom b p la n te d in w hat is d e scrib e d as the “ C entre fo r the S tudy o f Law ” . . . D on't know how m any m ore eggs there are, bu t we do know that the s u p p ly of dinosaurs is d w in d lin g fast. W hat do they mean when they say th a t the supply of dinosaurs is d w ind ling fast? Do they really th in k that capita lism is about to run out of b uild in g s and the money to replace them? There is nothing sacred about b u ild ing s or property, and there are ce rta in ly tim es when the destru ction of a hated sym bol of m ilitarism or oppression can quicke n the s p irit and even educate the public. But are we now on a cam paign to blow up c a p ita l­ ism, b u ild in g by b u ild in g , in a contest of w ealth and purely physical pow er? Has this replaced the goal of underm ining capitalism by destroying its a b ility to com m and the loyalty and labour of its subje cts? O c­ casional d e struction of prop erty can be useful if it has p u b lic su p p o rt and sym pathy, but constant rep etitio n leads to operation of the law of d im inishing returns. Recently som eone blew up the head­ quarters of the A m e rica n Nazi Party in New Y ork — under the N azi-like illu sion that you can destroy an idea by burning a book or an office. R ightists have fire-b om b ed a num ber of m ovem ent headquarters in the last few years. As sections of the m ovem ent begin to ape these ta c tic s of the Right, it becom es easier fo r the p olice and the federal govern­ ment to foster the p u b lic illusion that they are above the battle, p ro te ctin g rival groups of extrem ists from one anothe r and fa ith ­ fu lly serving p u b lic safety and w elfare. The W eatherpeople have been rem arkably scrupulo us and successful in avoiding hum an injuries or death (except to them selves). But if the te rro ris t bom b becom es the p u b lic sym bol of the m ovem ent, the governm ent is not beyond planting a few ca ta stro p h ic bom bs of its own, in the m ovem ent’s name. A lready it has falsely accused the B lack Panthers of planning to blow up crow ded departm ent stores in New Y ork. This is an obvious attem pt to ra ilro a d leading Panthers to prison and at the same tim e to underm ine pu b lic sym pathy and support. Now, unlike the Panthers, sections o f the w hite m ove­ ment are into fa irly extensive bom bing. If this should begin to gain m ore p u b lic sup po rt

than it loses (in itself highly unlikely), the governm ent can q u ickly turn the tide by arranging to have a few bom bs explode in a crow ded store or a ghetto street. Ladislaw Dobor, leader of the P opular R evolutionary Vanguard in Brazil, explained recently from his cu rre n t exile in A lgeria why the B razilian m ovem ent does not use bom bs: We do n o t use form s of violence that can be tw isted by the governm ent. If the people h e a rd that we use bom bs, the governm ent w o u ld do e xa ctly w hat the U.S. does in Viet­ nam , and w hat the French d id here in A lgeria. They w o u ld p u t a few bom bs in a m ovie-house on a S aturday afternoon, when it is fu ll o f ch ild re n . A nd then we w o u ld have the entire po p u la tio n ru n n in g a fte r us in the streets. Ram parts, Oct. 1970. A lready the governm ent and the media are doing th e ir utm ost to confuse the p u b lic by speaking as if the problem of violence in our society was created by the m ovem ent rather than by the system and the governm ent. That is one reason m ovem ent m ilitants som etim es find it hard to speak plainly against the ta ctica l violence of th e ir com rades. They do not w ant to encourage this disto rtio n by p o liticia n s and com m entators. Let us be very clear about the real sources of contem pora ry violence. All the violence of the A m erican a n ti-im p e ria list m ovem ent in the last five years has not equalled the deaths of black ch ild re n in the last five m onths from rat bites. C ollege presidents and clergym en whose in stitu tio n s thrive fin a n cia lly from real estate holding s in black slum s condem n student violence and call fo r q u ick punishm ent of the guilty. T oday’s paper reports that the M etro­ politan Life Insurance Com pany, a staunch opponent of revolutiona ry violence, has been refusing fo r three years to pay a black w om an the nineteen hundred dollars due her on the life insurance po licy of her son. Her son was a “ young bla ck shot and killed by police as he ran from a looted sto re ” during the 1967 bla ck re b e llio n -p o lice ven­ detta in N ew ark, N.J. (New Y ork Times Oct. 11, 1970). For the firs t tim e in many years, the United States has a sm all but sig n ifica n t under­ ground. The initial sense of com m unity in any underground can be intense and rew arding — a beautiful s o lid a rity of people who have b urnt th e ir bridges behind them and jo in tly com m itted th e ir lives to the revolution. C learly both the W eatherpeople and the non­ vio le n t underground of M ary Moylan, Dan B errigan and dozens of others re fle ct a com ­ radeship beyond individua lism that is rare in t h is . society. But to the extent that a m achism o con ce n tra tio n on destructive revenge, and one-upping the pigs crow ds out other ta ctics, the love and tru st w ill becom e clannish and ingrow n. Dan B errigan was strong because he destroyed d ra ft files

and c o rp o ra tio n records th at had “ no right to e x is t” , denied the rig h t of the state to punish him, and at the sam e tim e understood that the stru g g le was not p rim a rily m ilitary. He held sem inars and press interview s, to o k the risk of m aking a few b rie f but effective p u b lic appearances, challeng ed the apath e tic and the lagging but did not condem n them out of hand. The true test of the W eatherpeople w ill be not how m any b u ild in g s they can destroy but w he the r or not they can in terre la te c o n s tru c tiv e ly w ith a m u lti­ dim ensional overgroun d m ovem ent. A pred o m in a ntly v io le n t underground faces trem endous problem s of e litism and paranoia. These are problem s that plague the m ovem ent generally but can easily get out of hand in groups like R evolution ary A ctio n, East or W eatherm an. S ecrecy and suspiciousn ess p rogressively replace open­ ness and trust, even w ith in the narrow c irc le of com rades. Anyone who leaves the group becom es a w eak p o in t in the n etw ork of defense. Yet it is only natural th a t some w ill be turned off by the crescendo of vio le nce and by the accidents. A c cid e n ts may vary from those tha t in ju re m em bers of the group, as when three W eatherpeo ple blew them ­ selves up last year in New York, to those in w hich ja n ito rs , late w orkers (such as the research assistant in M adison) o r passersby are m utilated or killed. O thers w ill w a nt to leave the gro u p because in the norm al fashion of hum an beings they have shifted th e ir personal or p o litic a l loyalties and form ed other alliances. The history o f all p o litica l m ovem ents, like the history of churches and every o the r in stitu tio n , is a histo ry of such splits. They becom e e sp eci­ ally d estructive w hen the gro up looks upon itself as the lea dership of a v io le n t revolu­ tion. “ A lthough he still meets w ith us, is he still one of us?” “ Now tha t she has left, w ill she blab to her man or her new com ra d e s? ” “ W ould the new s p lin te r gro up like to get rid of us so th at it can pose as the revolu­ tio n a ry v a n g u a rd ? ” “ Som eone m ust have tipped off the pigs; we w ere lu cky to get out alive; w ho was it? ” That these suspicions are not rootless is in dica ted by the fa c t that the po lice a p pa re n tly broke the Boston case through the de fectio n of one of the five students, w ho p ro m p tly put the m ajor blam e on the others. As governm ent preca utio n s and punitive violence grow , and as s uspicion and d istru st batten w ith in the group, there is a tra g ic tendency fo r a m ovem ent of v io le n t revo lu­ tionists to turn th e ir h o s tility and th e ir w eapons against th e ir re vo lu tio n a ry rivals and against those vic tim s of the system w ho lag behind the vanguard. Some of the same psych olo g ica l pressures operate as in the conventional m ilitary, w here those w ho have b u ilt th e ir w hole lives on tra in in g and

w eaponry fo r c o n flic t are frustrated by peace and long fo r the glo rio u s fu lfilm e n t of war. As the vio le n t undergro und enters a period w hen it becom es increasingly costly o r d iffi­ c u lt to bring down the enemy, it becom es less and less selective in its ch oice of enem ies. One is under pressure to fu lfil the m om ents of suspense and preparatio n, to ju s tify the danger and the truncated exist­ ence. The idea th a t yo u ’re e ith e r part of the solution or part of the problem g radually becom es ju s tific a tio n fo r turning one’s wrath against those w ho do not move fast enough or d o n ’t em brace the p a rtic u la r ta ctics of one’s own group. Those w ho are not w ith us are against us. There is no room fo r alliances and co a litio n s and a positive relationship w ith the public, such as ch aracterize a genuine p e o p le ’s lib e ra tio n movement. A lready, the new mood on the Left, every­ one w ho dots his re volutiona ry “ i ” s d iffe re n tly than we do or experim ents w ith d ifferent ta ctics than ours is assailed as a racist or a pig. We d o n ’t like th e ir line; then we w ill shut down th e ir pu b lica tio n , rip off th e ir equipm ent or a ttack th e ir sp e a ke r’s platform . He wears a uniform or w orks in a c a p ita lis t in stitu tio n ; then he is a pig: “ Off the P ig !” A num ber of underground papers p rin t the latest body counts of dead “ p ig s ” . One w eek S piro A gnew and som e of the underground press gave the same list of casualties (persons and building s), w ord fo r w ord. Each was using the list as the heart of a narrow em otional appeal to the people to choose his side. For­ tunately some people s till join the m ovem ent because they are opposed to the intensity and violence of the governm ent and the in stitu ­ tions of capitalism , not because they have an orgasm every tim e they read about the k ill­ ing o f a p o litic a l enem y or a dupe of the system. W hat frig h te n s me about our m ovem ent, if it has becom e so b lood-thirsty, already is that the Old Left in Russia had a fa r less calloused attitude tow ards the T sa r’s armed guards and police forces. The Bolsheviks and other revolutionaries fo u g h t them b itte rly on occasion, but they also fra te rn ize d with them and popagandized them. The glorious O ctober Revolution was aided and made less of a blood bath in the early m onths by the refusal of many of the T sarist defense forces to fire on the peasants and w orkers. Many of them w ent over to the revolutionary side. Yet g radually the sectarianism and violence of the Bolsheviks becam e so great that the firs t W orkers R epublic becam e soiled and corrupted by the se cre t police, the fac­ tional assassinations and blood purges, the torture, the slave labour cam ps of Stalinism . There w ere many co n trib u tin g causes fo r this d e te rioratio n that we cannot analyze here— including im m ense pressures and ruthless attacks by the im perialists and later by the

fascists. But if the basic hum anism of our m ovem ent cannot survive the firs t tim id governm ental repressions of the New Left and the firs t heady m ovem ent attacks on “ p ig ” forces, the futu re is bleak indeed. Fortunately those w ho sh riek m ost h yste rica lly fo r “ p ig ” blood or try to tu rn every c o n fro n ta tio n into a m ilita ry en co u n te r are the sm all fra c tio n of the m ovem ent— and the country. But in too many cases the ta c tic a l alternatives are being fa lse ly presented as ele cto ra l p o litic s or im m ediate g u e rilla w arfare, as w o rkin g “ w ith ­ in ” the system o r b low ing it up b u ild in g by b uildin g . It is not s u rp ris in g that e stab lish ­ m ent p o litic ia n s w ant to lim it a perplexed and d isillu s io n e d po pu la tion to these tw o alte rn a­ tives. But it is tra g ic fo r m em bers of the m ovem ent to c o n clu d e th a t these are the choices. The m ovem ent is not advanced e ith er q u a n tita tiv e ly or q u a lita tiv e ly by such se n ti­ m ents or by the action s th at flo w from them . Far from help in g create a sea in w hich the g u e rrilla s can operate, they dry up w hatever sea was be ginn ing to form to sh elte r m ove­ ment a ctivists and o the r vic tim s of repression. And if the advocates of arm ed revolution have already so badly lost sight of th e ir goals, w hat w ill rem ain of those goals after the chaos and destructivene ss of prolonge d c iv il w ar under c o n d itio n s of m odern te chn o lo gy? Those w ho co n s c ie n tio u s ly believe in the necessity o f arm ed stru g g le in this co un try should not ca rry a gun in such an army. But I am not the best person to give such advice because I do not believe that arm ed revolt in A m erica w ill lead to libe ra tion . Even the phrase ‘arm ed s tru g g le ’ is an o u t­ dated term from a previous te c h n o lo g ic a l age. It is not s u rp risin g that Mr. Nixon uses obsolete w ords to fo s te r an im age of him self as the cleanest living, fastest draw ing sheriff in the W est. In his case they cam ouflage a reality o f B-52 bom bers, napalm , frag m e n­ tation bom bs, chem ical w arfare, arm ed h eli­ co p te r gunships, fre e -fire zones, etc. A re volu tion a ry m ovem ent cannot afford such dishonesty. It cannot afford to th in k that when it is c a llin g fo r arm ed civil w ar in the United States today it is talking about shooting it out w ith rifles from darkened rooftops, sup­ ported perhaps by show ers of rocks, bottles and paving stones from an enthusiastic populace. Once the c o n flic t becom es a serious m ilita ry contest, in a cco rd w ith the e xhorta tio n s of the super-le ft, such illusions w ill q u ic k ly disa pp e a r— but we cannot afford to be educated at such a price. Now is the tim e to appraise the consequences of a ction s and attitud es that are being held up as effective m ethods of intensifying the struggle. Now is the tim e to exp lore and exp e rim e n t w ith a lterna tive form s th at have some hope of leading to lib e ra tio n rather than w anton d e stru ctio n and c o lle c tiv e suicide.

A POSSIBLE WAY OUT OF THE DILEMMA: FORCE W ITHOUT VIOLENCE "W e have never used our guns to go into the w hite co m m u n ity to shoot up w hite people. We only defend ourselves.” Bobby Seale The fa c t that the Panthers have done so is no excuse fo r the c o u rt fram eups and organized m urders by p o lice departm ents and federal agents all over the country. I th in k that ta ctica l argum ent can now be made as to w hether asserting that rig h t has a ctu a lly proved an effective m ethod of selfdefense fo r the Panthers. But cle a rly that is a m atter fo r the Panthers and o ther groups to decide fo r them selves. There m ust be no question about our sup p o rt and so lid a rity. As an ally of sorts, w ho has never had to suffer w hat bla ck people suffer, I m ust say that one of the saddest m om ents of my life was when, on the day Fred Ham pton and M ark C lark w ere ruthlessly m urdered by the Illin o is police, an Illin o is B lack Panther said: “ Now can you see w hy everyone has to have guns to p ro te ct them selves from the p ig s.” All I could th in k was that guns had not saved Fred or M ark anym ore than nonviolence had saved M artin Luther King, Jr. In fact, the presence of guns provided the pretext and intended cover-up fo r the m urders. F ortunately the truth of w hat happened has since been p u b lic ly revealed. (“ The S tory of the M urder of Fred H am pton” by John K ifner [w hich The N ew York Sunday Times refused to prin t] reprinted from S canlan’s M onthly by the C om m ittee to Defend the Panthers.) S econdly, I am w illin g fo r the sake of the present discussion to leave open the question of w hether or not there are tim es when it is pro d u ctive fo r some groups to use the gun as a ca re fu lly co n tro lle d supplem ent to other m ethods of struggle. My concern is to argue that the prim ary context of the struggle in this co u n try at this tim e should be 1) to b u ild new in s titu tio n s of co m m u n ity p a rtic ip a tio n and d e m o cra tic co n tro l, in the service of the p e o p le ; and 2) to a tta ck and paralyze old in stitu tio n s and p o w e r centers through a d is­ c ip lin e d ta ctic of fo rce w ith o u t violence. The m ethods of a tta ck include strikes, non­ cooperatio n, stra te g ic o ccupatio ns of b u ild ­ ings, roads, a irp o rts etc., and other acts of no n -violen t d isru p tio n of “ business as usual.” In a revolutiona ry situation, such actions can culm inate in a general strike and a total breakdow n of old in stitu tio n s and re la tio n ­ ships. An exam ple of one type of m eaningful attack is the recent o ccu p a tio n of Lincoln H ospital in New Y ork by m em bers of the Puerto Rican C om m unity in w hich it is located. Here the b u ild in g of new form s and the a tta ckin g of old in stitu tio n s came to gethe r in a creative exam ple of the m ovem ent fo r re vo lu tio n a ry change at its best. For present

purposes it is enough to p o int o u t a co u p le of basic facts. First, the o c cu pa tio n grew o u t of a strong org a n izin g cam paign th a t raised the level of p o litic a l consciousness of com m unity residents. They cam e to realize th a t there was no valid reason fo r Linco ln H ospital to continue as an e litis t in stitu tio n aloof from the desperate m edical needs of the com ­ m unity. They discovered that they c o uld take d ire c t action to a ccom p lish th is purpose. The actual o c cu pa tio n was sparked by a p a rtic u ­ larly offensive case of hospital neg le ct that led to the death of a P uerto Rican ch ild . The persons w ho crow ded into the hospital and refused to leave dem anded not o nly an a ccou n tin g by the hospital but steps to bring the in stitu tio n under com m un ity con tro l. Demands included the se tting up of grievance com m ittees and a co m p la in t ta b le in the hospital, w ith com m u nity p a rtic ip a tio n . They also called fo r street c lin ic s and d o o r-to -d o o r preventive m edical m easures. The o c c u p a ­ tio n took place under the leadership of a broad c o a litio n of co ncerned fo rc e s — the Bronx c ha pte r of the Y oung Lords Party, Think L inco ln (a com m unity organizatio n), Health R evolutionary U nity M ovem ent (a cityw ide o rganizatio n of P uerto Rican and black hospital w orkers) and a num ber of New Left doctors at the hospital (who w ere associated w ith the M edical C om m ittee fo r Human Rights and H ealth-Pac). O ther young d o cto rs w ho th in k that m edicine exists to serve the people rather than to sw ell the egos and pocketbooks of health p rofessiona ls have since joined the Lin coln staff. S econdly, when the p olice eventua lly attacked ba rricades tha t had been set up in the o ccu p ied b u ild ing , the o ccu p ie rs had the good sense to avoid a shoot-out. T he ir pur­ pose was fa r too serious to indulge anyone’s sense of m achism o or u ltra le ftism . To have had guns and to have used them w ould have confused the issues and interfe re d w ith co n­ tinued co m m u nity and p u b lic support. Force, yes— the o c cup atio n of the bu ild in g , the erection of barricades, a subsequent ta ke ­ over of a p ortable X-ray un it to take it to the streets w here the people were. But selfindulge n t tra shin g of the hospital o r o ffin g of pigs, no. So strong was the co m m un ity sup­ port, th a t all charges against the invaders w ere dropped. Like everything else th a t anyone does, this con tin u in g e xpe rim en t in com m unity action and c o ntro l has not accom plish ed instant revolution. Preventive m edicine, itself, re­ quires not only the a v a ila b ility of d o cto rs and m edical tests to detect lead-poiso ning, TB and other slum diseases, but new ancl better housing, new w o rkin g co n ditio n s, access to proper food, effective garbage rem oval, co m ­ m unity co n tro l of p o lice so that they w ill p ro­ te c t people instead of property. But a com ­ m unity that gets itse lf to g ethe r on com m unity

co n tro l of one area o f its life sets an exam ple and creates dynam ics that can extend to other areas as w ell. Lessons learned from the co n frontatio n o f Lincoln hospital and the con tin u in g attem pts to fo rce local in stitutions to serve the needs of the people can be ex­ tended to other com m unities all over the country. In addition, such a ctivitie s train and prepare a netw ork of p o litic a lly conscious, se lf-re lia n t groups to take part in nationally coordinate d a ctivitie s fo r national objectives. The m ovem ent was weakened last spring by a lack of experienced revolutiona ry cadres on the cam pus and among those w ho had recently left the cam pus. SDS had dissolved into several e litis t sects, isolated from the students and isolated from reality. The W eather-people had left a heritage of con­ fusion and dismay, from th e ir O ctober Days of Rage. In May, they were busy b u ild in g bomb fa cto rie s instead of relating to the upsurge of p opular revolt. They had lost fa ith in the pow er o f the people and had turned instead to the pow er of bombs. On the o ther hand, the fa ilu re of the New Mode to take a clear lead in the developm ent of m assive m ilitant actions had created a ta c tic a l vacuum in w hich the only alternatives seem ed to be adventu ristic violence or the old tired games o f reform p o litics and mass rallies. The W eatherpeople have indicated that they learned som ething from fin d in g them ­ selves isolated and im potent, as a result of th e ir narrow p reoccupa tion w ith violence. The questions are: did they learn enough, and w hat have the rest of us learned? W ill we move beyond p e titio n in g the governm ent, w ith o u t succum bing, in our turn, to m achism o attitudes and actions that isolate us from the bulk o f the A m erican people? We need to undertake actions that w ill, at one and the same tim e, reflect and deepen our basic hum anism , broaden our base and intensify the conflict. BY D A V E D E L L IN G E R . Reprinted fro m Liberation Magazine and London OZ

The beautiful woman has adorned the pages of magazines from the beginning of the printed word. In expensive clothing to nothing she’s been used like thickly coated butter as a tasty morsel for the visual medium. As a practical lesson in Women Liberation, High Times has decided to decorate its center spread with a beautiful man. Raise your eyes women;gawk, perve or be repulsed. Get to know the 7000 types of male rib cages, buttocks types, shoulder widths, leg shapes and genital size. Get an idea of ‘the body of your dreams’. Women, as he is digging yours you should be digging his.

D O U G AN D ER S MALE OF THE MONTH

Doug is a member o f T fib e , a living theatre group th a t really live theatre. Tribe all live in a large airy mansion in Toorak where it is hard to tell where rehearsals and and live begins. Doug founded this group in Melbourne after having a similar thing in Brisbane. He is a dedicated actor b u t feels there is more to it than dress rehearsals. It is not unusual to arrive at the Tribe house to fin d a room fu ll o f people half tranced involved in a h u m ility exercise. Many o f the Tribe rehearsals revolve around m agnifying and experiencing the humanness we all take so much fo r gran ted . Doug w ill select a to p ic such as hate and each person w ill respond, b u t n o t in d ivid u a lly as playing a ro ll, b u t in his reactions during whatever normal conversation he is carrying on w ith another person. Doug, though the founder, refuses the leading ro ll. A ll members o f trib e are equal in a u th o rity . Suggestions fo r the future and ideas on the present can soar form as man as twelve mouths. Y et this w ould be one o f the o n ly large democracies whose decision making doesn't dw indle in to p e tty personality interjections and flagrant com ­ m unication breakdowns.

T ribe certainly have a lo t to say. But as a male pin-up we th in k Doug speaks fo r him self.

Photos:

Alan Robertson

THE GOVERNMENT GONE UNDERGROUND

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Secondly help doesn’t just end at the cheque book. If you want to sell your film to commercial outlets they encourage it and lend a hand. They also have representatives which take these films overseas and throughout Australia in order to sell them. The Fund has had one festival so far this year with help from the Melbourne Film Festival and hopes for this type of festival throughout Australia every year. Naturally as with most plans initiating them takes longer than thinking of them. A festival may not reach your

Rather than being simply a glossy promise the Fund does, to date, seem to be fulfilling film makers needs. First off they do grant

town for some time. Also all films sponsored by the Fund can be lodged at the Vincent Library for distribution, or hire. Leave it to say maybe the Australian Commercial Film Industry is still a little less than a dream as a national past-time but the underground film industry has a tentative foot-hold on growth. Hitch your wagon to an Australian Experimental Film and Television Fund Grant. Some great stuff has come from others that did! The good part of our story ends here. Now on to the ever present bummer. Your chances of ever seeing these films sponsered by the Fund or others of a like nature are minute! Most theatres refuse to pay for their shorts thus use those sweet sticky films done by advertising agencies about the best place for a holiday or Queens­ land’s dairy produce or New Zealand, the unexplored island. Also the heavies in the film distribution scene don’t see any value in this type of film at all. So we, the public, are left with the ultimate irony. Australia would be one of the only countries with a government body providing money and finance to the underground film, yet this government good turn turns out to be no big deal. What good is even a million dollars sunk into great movies when their future les in filling shelves of a library? To free these movies three solutions come to mind. 1. Film lovers in diverse areas should align themselves with the Fund and show this type of movie in their city or surburb as an alternative to the flagrant mind inhibiters shown in every other theatre. Overseas experimental movies are available as well. Hiring a hall doesn’t cost too much if it is the right one. The ‘art film’ theatre has proved very successful overseas. 2. Write letters to all your local theatres demanding the abolition of the brain insulting shorts on New Zealand and Queensland, they alternate every week, and insist they show at least one short of experimental nature and send them the Vincent Library address. (C/O Australian Film Institute, 53 Cardigan Street, Carlton Victoria 3053.) 3. Hire them yourselves and show them in your clubs, parties, homes etc.

Here is a list of titles and directors whose films were shown at the Experimental Film and Television Fund Festival. Three of these are reviewed in depth later. Remember there are approximately 110 films which are being kept from you. Free These Films. GAGE THE SKY AND THE IGLOO Denis Oram John Lord AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AFTER IMAGE Bruce Petty Anthony Airey HOMESDALE THE MACHINE GUN Peter Weir Michael Thornhill ANYHOW JAM ON HIS FACE Murray Williams Peter Kingston THE SAMARITAN KIND A CITY’S CHILD Anthony Kovacs Brian Kavanagh TO NOFREITI POSSUM Sandra and Yoram Gross E. George Schwarz BAYSIDE AMUSEMENTS NONE AS YET Bill Clements Terry Martin WILLY WILLY PRUDENCE: AGE 19 Gregory J. Ropert Geoff Burton “ OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE” Kit Guyatt, Chris McCullogh, Ian Dunlop, Brian Hannant, Arch Nicholson, Malcolm Smith, Dick Brennan, Douglas White TELELOGIC TELECAST FROM SPACESHIP EARTH: ON BOARD WITH BUCKMINSTER FULLER Michael Glasheen

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WILLY-WILLY AUSTRALIA 1971 DIRECTOR: GREGORY J. ROPERT 23 MINUTES A whole film shot through a in this spotlessly romantic tall densely vasoline coated lense. grass euphoria. End of Film. First an old man (Chips Rafferty no less) fascinated by an image And this entire mental Morris tripping, falling, falling, falling, Dance to the worst Johhny falling. Cut to a young boy in Farnham type music imaginable. pink overalls drifting through a field of long hazy grass to suddenly happen upon a brand new 1971 Carrosel. Amazed he trudges to his spinning fantasy AUSTRALIAN HISTORY land. Several playful, wierd AUSTRALIA 1971 hours later a misty lady appears DIRECTOR: BRUCE PETTY 18 MINUTES on this empty field with this merry-go-round. This film was: ‘A compressed history of Australia, narrated Together they play spinning with satirical overtones to cat and mouse on the bedaza series of cartoons with zeling spotless , organ music limited animation’. spewing horse and cart whirler. The animation was adequate. The dialogue was brilliant. Jumping off, they crusade thr­ Petty’s historical account ough this absolutely natural is subjective extrordinaire. psychedelic field, her always Examples (though not one slow motion leap ahead of verbatim): 1) The Mr. Pink. Mesmeristically she Australian culture and its disappears. Cut back to the traditions became threatened old man, bleeding, reaching, when the Americans discoved advertising. 2) When the touching his imaginary tractor

Australian began exploring the great outback and found nothing but Aborigines and a 200 million year old culture so began the literary era of the great Australian Nothingness. 3) The first to arrive on Aussie soil: the respectable government official and the lowly hardened criminal. Slowly through the evolvement of Australian history these rolls changed. Almost educational and certainly enjoyable. TELELOGIC TELECAST FROM SPACESHIP EARTH; ON BOARD WITH BUCKMINSTER FULLER Australia 1970 Director: Michael Gasheen 28 Minutes Fuller and psychedelic tech­ nological camera techniques run neck and neck in this film. Inadvertently this is a blessing. Fuller has so much to say he has had to devise his own voc­ abulary. With so much visual going on one needn’t feel guilty about not understanding a word of what he said. Technically a brilliant use of the video. Each shot into explaining with ‘key’ images what Fuller was expounding. Seeing how Fuller never says anything ordinary, these shots were dazzling and optically astounding. A batch of oranges slowly drifted together in three dimensions against the softest of blue background; the earth spins it’s very fabric to cloudy oblivion all with the spliced video negative image of Fuller speaking monatoneously away about the universe and its energy expending systems: synergy enthrophy, etc. The film approximated a happening in total involvement.

ALBIE THOMS YOU SEE IT, YOU SEE IT NOT: the Australian Cinema Something that isn’t in the history books at school: the Australian Cinema. Few people know it has a history, least of all one that could be written about. But it’s now all down on paper in a book by John Baxter, The Australian Cinema, pub­ lished by Angus & Robert­ son in Sydney and selling for $1.80. Up till the publication of this book there were only rumors of a form er film industry, with some short film clips anthologised in two fascinating documen­ taries: Tony Buckley’s For­ gotten Cinema (1967), and Alan Anderson’s The Pic­ tures That Moved (1968). Now, possibly as a result of those films, a series of early Australian talkies is being shown on national televi­ sion. A significant part of our cultural history is thus being fed back into our contemporary culture, and the ramifications in terms of interest in indigenous film productions should lead to renewed feature activity in an industry that was almost eliminated by American and British take-overs in the early thirties. The film situation hasn’t changed much since that time, with most cinemas still monopolised by Hoyts and Greater Union. But Aus­ tralian production com­

panies, resurgent as the re suit of the expanded market created by local television and the protectionist laws that banned im port of foreign-produced tv com­ mercials, are returning to feature film production. These features are not re­ lated directly to Australian audiences, as overseas con­ trol of cinemas ensures that returns from Australian cinema screenings will not cover production expendi­ ture. So they are being made for the international television market which consumes feature films at an accelerated rate not pos­ sible in cinemas. The immediate future of the Australian film industry seems to lie in these lowbudget quickies, CQ-produced with American money and imported stars, direc­ tors and production super­ visors. Film unionists are happy for the increase in work available for Aus­ tralian technicians and actors. But Australian directors and writers are unhappy at being ignored in favor of imported per­ sonnel, and have mostly responded by going over­ seas. Which leaves us with an Australian cinema that doesn’t relate to our own community, made by visi­ tors with little comprehen­ sion of our complex socio­ cultural environment, for an international market starved

of genuine information about our country. The Australian government has made some small attempts to combat this without re­ sorting to the rigid protec­ tionist policy that led to the flourishing and imaginative tv advertising industry. Its Commonwealth Film Unit has entered a new phase in which it is making dramatic films that explore wide areas of Australian con­ sciousness sadly neglected by the profit-motivated film industry. And its Australian Council for the Arts is sub­ sidising exploratory activi­ ties which might lead to genuinely creative film in Australia and the develop­ ment of film as an art form before it is made redundant in the immediate electronic video future. John Baxter’s book out­ lines the history of Aus­ tralian cinema in simple terms riddled with value judgements that reveal a predilection for the massmarket esthetic developed and propagated by Holly­ wood. Its illustrations give an insight into some of the styles and genres of Aus­ tralian cinema, though as documentation it is severely limited by minimal details of the films mentioned, and lacks sufficient informa­ tion or documentation of anything other than who directed the movies, their stars, and brief outlines of their stories.

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THE WORLD OF GEORGE FORMBY GEORGE FORMBY DECCA I’m very dubious about committing this review to paper. Fm sure there must be something, very psychological about my appreciation of George Formby, English music hall entertainer of the 30's. Perhaps Fm perverse. Often when Fve got a set of friends relaxed and dazed listening to records, I get this evil desire to ‘hit’ them L A FLU TE IIMDIEIMIME with Our George and while LOS C A L C H A K IS they reel back with com­ pulsion or, at best, amusement, V O LU M E 2 BAR C LAY there am I actually enjoying him. Like reading Silver Surfer comics, or watching Of late, the music world has WC Fields movies. Or old woken up to the sound of the South American flute. This Elvis. Absolute corn. By album is the second in a series the earfuls. So hilarious of three by Los Calchakis and in their unreality. there are a couple of other series George is the suburban done by other musicians. As yet, simpleton who can never make and as usual, to get a copy it with chicks, spends a lot you’ll have to place your import order as up till six months ago of his time daydreaming no record shop, much less a about how it would be or record company had ever heard about the things he lacks. of this sound. Appearently, ‘ Why don’t women like me?” Festival have one volume under is one of his. He also their wingspends a lot of time in It seems the sudden awareness envious peeking. No Jagger of this thousand year old “Midnight Rambler” this. sound is accredited to Simon and Garfunkel. Their number I “discovered’ George for one seller a few months back, myself when I was handed a El Condor Pasa, was a direct “Best Of” album to review

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