Chapter 35 Picky Brain-1

When the United States entered the 1970s, the rock-jazz generation was already in its fifties or approaching their fifties.This is the age when people start to discover that the world they love is crumbling.This year the impression is especially strong, as there seem to be so many reasons to feel wronged, including inflation, pollution, crime, war, the stock market, estrangement between young and old, immorality, riots , drugs with side effects, heavy traffic, abusive posters and graphics on cars, socially unfavorable strikes, racism and the emerging phenomenon of plane hijacking.Everything that used to be no longer works. "Not only is there no God," said Woody Allen, "you're not going anywhere to find a plumber for the weekend."

Barely three weeks into 1970, a U.S. Navy ship sailed for what was to come.The warship broke anchor in high winds, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened a 375-foot gap.To the superstitious, the new 70s may seem inauspicious to begin with. Elsewhere, nature also seems to have a deliberately hostile mood.Following a 200-day drought, southern California has been hit by its worst wildfires on record.Apparently spontaneous, these fires have consumed more than half a million acres—an area nearly the size of the state of Rhode Island.In an 85-year-old apartment building in Minneapolis, an unknown fire killed 11 people.Natural disasters occur all over the world: four people died in a cyclone in Venice, 200,000 in a tsunami in East Pakistan, and tens of thousands in earthquakes in Peru, Turkey, and Iran.God may be angry at the ungodliness of people like Woody Allen, or at being disrespectful like some haughty college student who wears a badge that reads: "God isn't dead—he's just Don't want to mind your own business."

Religion is certainly no longer the rock of stability it once was.Those Christians who don't see God as old-fashioned were shocked by the words of the new Mormon Church president, who said, "Why is it that some people are born black and have all kinds of disadvantages, while others are born white and have all kinds of disadvantages?" great advantage, which makes sense. Negroes are clearly getting what they deserve.” Episcopal churchgoers expressed concern about abandoning the King James Version of the Bible, which had been in use for three and a half centuries, and replacing it with the The New English Bible was disturbed.Even worse, from God's point of view, is the growth of anti-Christian influences - the worship of strange totems and even Satan himself.

According to reliable sources, Americans support 10,000 full-time and 175,000 part-time astrologers.Computers are used to make horoscopes for ten dollars a piece, the owner of a New York barbershop employs an astrologer as a staff member, a department store offers telephone fortune-telling services for a fee of 50 yuan a year, and a total circulation of three Three hundred newspapers with tens of millions of copies have permanent astrology columns.The reading club sends fortune-telling pictures to members as gifts.The University of South Carolina has 250 students enrolled in witchcraft courses.The ad in the magazine asks: "Are you bored because you're a layman to witchcraft? Then take part in witchcraft yourself. Attend our diploma-granting witchcraft classes and learn the ancient secrets, including spiritualism." spells, spells, visions, procreation, and esoteric rites." Mrs. Sybil Lick, a Houston witch, had a jackdaw named "Fiery" Jackson perched on her shoulder with which she could Fascinating, she estimates that "there are about eight million official witches in the world. I mean real witches, not Hollywood-style women who hold open conventions. I personally know of about four hundred official witches in the United States." Witch groups. Unofficial ones, I'm afraid there are tens of thousands."

If it is said that Tianfu has not received the respect it deserves, the same is true of the officials on the ground.In a Berkeley People's Park riot in which one person was killed and 105 injured, the federal indictment charged not the rioters but ten aides and two former aides to the county marshal accused of assault Human rights of demonstrators. (“No level of government has ever encountered anything more depressing than this,” the county sheriff said in a tantrum.) The Panthers literally killed with impunity.Juries or appeals courts in San Francisco, New Haven, and New York declined to accept murder charges against them; in addition, a federal special grand jury in Chicago criticized the police for a manhunt that killed two Black Panthers. The deaths of Red Hampton and Mark Clark.Even the American Indians, who had been at the bottom of society since the founding of the country, were eager to try.The Senate didn't return the entire country to them, but it did pass a bill returning Blue Lake, New Mexico and the 48,000 acres surrounding it to the Puebloan tribe.

It was also a difficult time for American generals, and not just in Vietnam.The Russians arrested two American generals for violating Soviet airspace.A general who commanded the European rotation was stripped of his rank for misconduct by his subordinates, and Benjamin Davis Jr., who retired with the rank of lieutenant general — the highest rank among blacks — resigned as head of the Cleveland Social Security Administration position because, he said, the city's black mayor "supported and encouraged the enemies of law enforcement."Anyone who wears a military uniform is likely to be scolded by anti-authority people, yet President Nixon gave his White House guard a particularly intrusive attire.Impressed by the fancy uniforms of the Romanian guards, he commissioned a Washington tailor, Jimmy Mascaro, to design a new ornate uniform for the guards of the Administration Building.The joke turned out to be a waste of 16,000 yuan—a white double-breasted jacket with gold trim, brass buttons with the presidential seal inlaid, and a fictional small European kingdom in a Ruritanian operetta. —Translator's black plastic hat.One of the guards muttered that if he had to wear such a uniform, he'd need a brass drum to match it.Says one designer: "This is not the time for the White House to do something like Gilbert and Sullivan, the two collaborators who wrote operetta in late nineteenth-century England—the translator." Mascaro said: "To make people It is impossible to please everyone." But he did not satisfy anyone, not even the President; the coat was used, but the hat was quietly put away.

New York gravediggers went on strike in January.Air traffic controllers went on strike in April.Passengers complained that planes were grounded, but they were probably blessed; heavier-than-air air transport wasn't the most reliable in 1970.Air hijacking still hasn't stopped.An Arizona man named Barkley had a new trick.Armed with a pistol, a razor and a can of petrol, he boarded a TWA plane and announced his demand for $100 million.After a shootout, the man was arrested, but the driver suffered stomach injuries.Boeing's $21 million gargantuan 747 jet initially failed to take off on time, six hours behind schedule.Even Apollo 13, headed for the moon, broke down 200,000 miles from Earth, and the three astronauts on board had to turn back.

Ironically, one of the most successful voyages of 1970 was the Papyrus Helios 2 ship, which traveled 3,200 miles of ocean.The ship was built and piloted by Norwegian explorer Saul Heyerdahl, who wanted to prove that ancient Egyptians may have sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.Helios 2 has at least reached its destination, Barbados, and as far as it is concerned, it is not making money, nor are many for-profit transportation industries, including most prominently, the largest rail transportation line in the United States.Pennsylvania Central Railroad is one of many U.S. companies struggling to balance their books, heading into bankruptcy court with $2.6 billion in debt.The same goes for film companies; the five major film studios in Hollywood are heavily indebted, totaling more than $100 million. The great boom of the 1960s seemed to have come to an end as the decade came to an end, as evidenced best by Wall Street, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearly hit the 1,000 mark in December 1968 , but fell to 631 on May 27.

During the Johnson era of bullish stock prices, the corridors of the New York Stock Exchange were filled with eager onlookers. After the long crash in May 1970, it was deserted there.New York, now dubbed the "Happy City" by the city's vitriolic citizens, has become less popular with tourists.Crime is common on the streets, along with other dangers.The city raised the towing fee for illegal parking from 25 yuan to 50 yuan on June 1.On this day, a mother from Springfield, Massachusetts, took her children to New York to watch a movie.When she emerged from the cinema, the car was gone and she owed the council $50 and a fine.The movie they were watching was called "The Redneck," and it was about the perils of being a guest in Manhattan.

In 1970, when most studios in California were dying, a director named Russ Meyer made his twenty-first feature in a row.He knew from the beginning that the box office value of the film was bound to be high.None of the films before it lost money or made less than six figures.One of his films, "Vixen", cost 72,000 yuan to make, but earned more than 6 million yuan."I don't play tricks on the audience," Meyer said. "Within 15 seconds of my film -- the first 15 seconds -- you know what you're going to see." Watching what the film industry calls "sex movies," or what people generally refer to as pornography.The sale of pornography has become a big business in the United States, earning more than 500 million yuan a year, and this market seems to be never-ending.

Pornography comes in all kinds of packaging.Movie theaters on the main streets of the city show X-rated films. For information about film ratings, see Chapter 32 of this book. —Translator's films; the biggest blockbusters of 1970 included Sexual Freedom in Denmark, Naughty Girls ("to overshadow Curiosity and Jealousy"-New York Daily News), and Len Font's "What would you say to a naked lady?" The film runs continuously all day and all night, netting the theater seven thousand dollars a week.There are 200 "adult bookstores" in Manhattan. Those "adult bookstores" that are located between Seventh and Eighth Avenues are open 24 hours a day. Like supermarkets displaying goods, the shelves are hung with classified billboards— - Heterosexual, homosexual (male), bestiality, hardcore, lesbian, incest, oral and tongue sex.The projectors on the side of the road show pornographic films that cost 20 cents and 50 cents. Pictures of "Eight Beautiful Postures" cost two yuan each."Laugh It Out," featuring nine nude actresses, was called "the most blunt and nonchalant gay documentary ever seen in an age of increasingly artistic tolerance" by Associated Press drama critic William Glover. Films such as "The Boys in the Band" and "Foz," in which a redneck enjoys fucking a sow, caused widespread outrage in New York.But there's a huge market beyond Broadway.A bachelor in the country can buy yellow LPs and talk to relieve his loneliness.In the corner grocery store, as Professor Morse Peckham of the University of South Carolina puts it, customers can now "buy obscenity for a fraction of the price that not so long ago could have been bought for much money." The change has caused confusion among Americans over the age of thirty.In their childhood, it was forbidden to say "ass" in the presence of the opposite sex.The rock 'n' roll generation remembers the uproar when the Hayes Film Censorship allowed Clark Gable to say, "Frankly, honey, I don't give a shit."Now Jack Valentine ranks movies that use language like "horse dung balls" and "piss on you" as family-friendly.Part of the laissez-faire that film studios are now doing can be traced back to the Supreme Court's 1957 decision in the Roth v. United States case, which held that so-called obscenity must be provocative, contrary to the general norms of society, and "nothing at all." The value of social education".Another part of the social ethos is due to the new contraceptive pills and greatly relaxed abortion laws, so that women no longer have to worry about getting pregnant.William Glover once said that a large part of this is caused by this era, rooted in the revolution of sexual life and the atmosphere of the era where women's panties are getting shorter and shorter, with no bottom and bottom.Sexual curiosity seems insatiable. The sexual sense of the word "disorderly conduct" has now almost disappeared from the language, because few people are sexually disciplined anymore.A Pennsylvania state legislator who opposed abortion laws was exposed as a hypocrite when a young woman came forward and told a news reporter that the state legislator had been her lover and that he had paid for her abortion.There was a time in the past when things like this were kept secret by the woman. All these things are very harmful to the children, who are exposed to them, who date earlier than their parents, and reach maturity earlier than their parents.The most frequently suggested remedy is sex education in schools.A Gallup poll found that 71% of the nation approves of this approach, and 55% approve of having classes explaining birth control.Groups in favor of teaching sex knowledge include the American Medical Association, the National Education Society, the Sex Education Association, and the American Council on Sex Knowledge and Education.Dr. Mary Calderon, executive chairman of the American Council on Sex Knowledge and Sex Education, said that sex knowledge "should not be explained as human behavior but as human instinct." The American Council on Sexuality Knowledge and Education does not publish any materials, it only provides expert advice to schools.This is completely muddied by the minority who are able to express their opinions, who are furious when they hear that male and female reproductive issues will be discussed in classrooms.Billy James Haggis's Christian Reformation movement, which spearheaded the far right's assault on sex education, asked, "Is school an appropriate place to teach about sexual intercourse?" The Board of Education called it "an obscene assistant to enlightened education."The education departments of Oklahoma, California, and Utah also refused to show some healthy films because they had been approved by the American Council on Sex Knowledge and Education. The Anti-Sex Education Coalition also includes the Restoration of Decent Living Movement led by the Birch Association, Parents United for Responsible Education, Mothers for Moral Stability, Positive Sex, Parents Against Sex Education, and Against the Unconstitutional Sex Education Parents Organization. "I doubt that one in a thousand parents heard the term sex education a year ago," says a director of the Birch Society. "Now they have, and they're not happy with what they heard." One group accuses school of planning to "reveal full details of sexual intercourse and masturbation to children"; a school in Parsippany, New Jersey, is called a "college brothel"; a leader of Parents Against Unconstitutional Sex Education accuses the school "undermining what should be taught in the family".An eighth-grade math teacher was jailed for distributing obscene material; the superintendent of a California school was fired.The far right in Racing, Wisconsin, accused sex education of being a Communist plot to harm the morals of schoolchildren, and it won.One of the more absurd battles was fought in San Francisco over an innocuous book called "Conversations of a Doctor with Children Aged Five to Eight."The far right in the area reproduced the book's illustration of one toad lying on the other's back in a leaflet distributed.The original explanation in the book is that a female toad is carrying her young toad on her back.But the leaflet changed it to "coitus toads", thus depriving sex education of many supporters. At the height of the debate, sex education has sparked squabbles in 27 states. At the end of 1970, reason prevailed, and sex education was added to the school, but the schoolchildren were all baffled, and they didn't know what the hell was going on.Then, just when school superintendents and school boards thought they could turn their attention to other issues, their sex education programs came under attack from an entirely different direction—the women's liberation movement.One of the credos held by liberated women is that all differences between men and women, except those of the flesh, are taught, not born.They believe that women's desire to be mothers and to develop domestic skills are all trained, and they see public primary and secondary schools as the main training grounds.Demanding revisions to textbooks and a change in teachers' attitudes, they fought their opponents.The struggle that would become a major issue in the 1970s was sure to be protracted. When Robin Morgan - previously known only as the TV actress on "I Remember Mom" ​​- stepped into the 1968 "Miss America" ​​beauty pageant with a long line of striking bras, thousands Millions of Americans learned that there was a new feminist movement.She told astonished reporters that she was the founder of the International Women's Hell Conspiracy Terrorist Organization from the identity. On August 26, 1970, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote. ——On the 50th anniversary of the passage of the translator, feminist activists went to the shopping districts of major cities to hold demonstrations.Throughout the year, liberated women demonstrated that they were as familiar with the power of propaganda as members of other protest movements.One of them yelled at a construction worker, "Take it off!" When she was asked if she was referring to the worker's hard hat, she said, "No, it was his penis." Lan's woman fought in court for ten years to be a day laborer digging ditches, and finally won.Marlene Dixon writes: "At all stages and groups, various institutions and institutions have played a more or less important role in the oppression of women; the solidarity of women of different classes depends on our understanding of the common oppression Understood.” Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—John D., the “founder” of the Standard Oil empire, Rockefeller Sr. -- the translator's great-granddaughter -- denounces romantic love between a man and a woman as "counter-revolutionary." Edgar Berman, a physician who was very active in Democratic Party politics, said, "I've had enough about Women's Lib." Patsy Mink, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, immediately accused Berman of being a woman Discriminators, with "the most despicable prejudices against women".As the year wore on, the fire in the speech grew.Margaret Mead said: "Women's Liberation must be especially vigilant against the danger of causing men to kill women. You have practically driven them mad." As women marched in New York, a man bystander shouted at them: "You These pigs can’t get men!” At this time, there was a man in a bra standing beside him, silent.Hugh Hefner said in a memo to his staff: "These women are our natural enemies. It is time to fight them. The kind they advocated against Playboy magazine." Romantic society of young men and women is determined to oppose it to the end." Some women's words sound as boring as Hugh Hefner's.They spent a lot of energy debating whether they should be called Mrs., Miss, or Ms, and asked to change the chairman (chairman) to chairperson because the second half of the chairman is "man", so they advocated changing it to "person", which has no gender distinction. people". – Translator, and attacking the National Airlines ad for pretty waitresses saying, "My name is Doris, please come on my plane and let's fly together." But the deeper questions they ask are by no means trivial .Twenty-three million American women are working full-time at this time; another eight million are working part-time.Four out of ten married women are employed, and twelve million of them have children under the age of 18 at home.On the surface, this may seem like a challenge to a male-dominated job market, but the nature of jobs and the size of their wages still reflect a society in which men, rather than women, are the breadwinners.Men still occupy the highest paying occupations and still take home more money.Only 7.6% of the 300,000 doctors in the United States, only 1% of surgeons, and 90% of telephone operators and stenographers are women.For the same job, men can earn five yuan, but women generally only earn three yuan. Life magazine found that a woman needs a bachelor's degree to earn as much as a man who drops out by eighth grade.A typical male salesperson's salary is 8549, and a typical female salesperson's salary is 3460. By 1970, the Women's Liberation Movement's arguments for equality in employment and education were supported by many men.Demands for free abortions and free day care for children are more debated.The male population appears to be split evenly in favor of and against the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, the Equal Rights Amendment, which is proposed to guarantee women full equality before the law.And in just two years, the Senate will pass the Equal Rights Amendment and send it to the state legislatures.According to this amendment, women do not need to change their surnames after marriage; they have an equal right to say where they should live; He could not sue his wife for abandoning him.On the other hand, if the marriage breaks down, the wife may have to pay maintenance.Laws that protect women from danger and overwork at work, and from certain forms of sexual abuse (with the exception of rape) would be nullified.In addition, women may be drafted into the army and ordered to fight. An Equal Rights Amendment contributor to the Yale Law Journal argued:  …The effectiveness of the modern military depends more on equipment and training than on individual strength.Women are as physically capable as men of many of the tasks called combat, such as piloting airplanes and participating in naval operations.... There is no reason to suppose that women cannot be as serious and well-trained as men in critical situations. I can't say that there are many housewives who want to be machine gunners or Browning automatic riflemen, or are willing to be compared with Elizabeth Hoisin, the women's army captain who became the first female general in the United States in June 1970 Treat it the same way.Nonetheless, millions of American women—especially young women—have been transformed by the movement.There was a new valor in them, a bold defiance of those who manipulated them for their own gain, from what Women's Wear Daily readers called "the knee skirts" and what others across the country called half-lengths. This can be seen in the disaster befell the new style of skirts.Almost a quarter of a century ago, independent women attempted to lead a revolt against the "new style" of long skirts, signing manifestos, organizing "just above the knee" clubs, and demonstrating against trendy women's clothing stores Pages 421-423. — translator.At that time they were a total failure.Women's fashion houses are now making longer skirts again.James Galanos: "Length is the way to go." Adele Simpson: "Goodbye, thighs." Leo Narducci: "Women are definitely ready to change their styles now." They all I am convinced that women will be overwhelmed and rush to buy the clothes they supply. The earliest voices of resistance came from Los Angeles, where Julie Huntner, the president of something called Women's Femininity and Financial Rights, told a reporter: "We must not let them blindfold us and Covering our legs. I know some women who would wear a tin box as long as Galanos are trendy. I think it’s kind of pathological, and all we’re asking for is choice.” Members of the Girls Against Maxi Skirts marched with placards that read “The market must keep supplying miniskirts” and “Thighs! Thighs! Thighs”! Some of them believed that the midi skirts were a conspiracy against the Women’s Liberation Movement, Clothing designers sought to isolate feminists by restoring femininity; others accused older women of desensitized thighs for wanting to cover up the legs of 28-year-old girls.Social historian Gilman Ostrandall attributes the skirt to the decline in the stock market, saying it is sure to stay in fashion: "Middle-aged people who prefer long skirts, in times of depression and recession, decide to The standards of society. Young people who like short skirts set the standards in boom times.” By the winter of this year, the stock market had recovered, and the fashion industry's enthusiasm for skirts had declined sharply. A survey by The New York Times found that while a handful of stores confidently expressed confidence in the slightly elongated style ("Now it's time! Everyone loves it, loves it, and buys it!"), most Admits the style has been a fiasco: "The stores that said they were buying a lot of skirts last fall are now saying they don't. Outdated." It is true that there are too many skirts just below the knee.But fashion designers have specified a specific length for semi-length skirts, which is 44 to 45 inches from the shoulder to the hem, which for most women will reach the calf. The New York Times found that this size accounted for only 20 percent of dresses sold, and by the end of the year only 5 percent of women were wearing them.The other ones were either taken back and shortened, or left in the closet. The hapless retailer said the style was a "big failure" or a "total failure."One said it "really hurt the fashion industry and was not popular with anyone at all"; another told a female reporter, "Our customers don't want this style...we've never been able to sell it." Yet However, the attempt to popularize the calf-length style on a large scale has caused an unexpected fashion change. “Semi-length skirts,” said the New York Times, “virtually wiped out the dress ensemble for women . Underwear and trousers, their daughter wore very short shorts, still showing her knees.Bergdorf Goodman called these shorts "cool pants." "Women's Clothing Daily" has a better understanding of the mood of new women, calling this kind of shorts "hot pants", and the name became popular. The climate of violence that afflicted the Johnson administration continued, if anything, with a more sinister nature under the Nixon administration.Minority ghettos in metropolises remain relatively quiet, but there are still activities of murder and arson secretly in black districts in small cities.Six black people were shot dead in Augusta, Georgia.A teenage boy was stabbed to death during a race incident in Oklahoma City.A bomb was dropped on a church in Kasich, Mississippi that was used for human rights campaign meetings.East Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Highland Park, MI, Michigan City, IN, New Bedford, MA, Asbury Park, NJ, South Melbourne, FL, Aliquipa, PA, North Carolina Riots broke out in Oxford, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Lutz River, Michigan, Caro, Illinois, and the small towns of Perry, Macon, and Athens, Georgia. In New York, bombing threats amount to a thousand a month.During the 15-month period, there were actually 368 explosions in the city, including one explosion in the men's toilet on the second floor of the police station.Police Chief Howard Leary told a Senate subcommittee that he could not guarantee the safety of those coming to his stations.There are times when it seems almost as though hunting season has been declared and the woods are open to open shooting at the American police.The FBI reported 35,202 attacks on police officers in 1970—nearly four times as many as in 1960—and 15 officers were killed in nine months of the year, most of them Killed by ambushes. The Little Rock Police Chief said that assaults on officers had become "literally a daily occurrence ."We're dealing with a bunch of psychos -- a bunch of psychopaths," said Philadelphia Police Chief Frank Rizzo. Omaha's policing leader believes that "the problems that police departments across the country are experiencing are all evidence of a conspiracy." activity, timing is also a sign. We are putting together all the intelligence we have and looking to prove that there is a conspiracy." He failed to do this, and most of the law enforcement officers thought it was unlikely—"We The attacks are considered to be separate and separate incidents," Leary said.But there is general agreement that when the regime is under widespread attack, the police are inevitably targeted.According to Quinn Tamm of the International Association of Chiefs of Police: "As radical groups encourage their members to 'kill those pigs,' attacks on police officers intensify...that blue uniform makes the wearer became the most conspicuous representative of the existing power system." Hostility to the existing order is the reason for these bombings.In some cases, those who carried out the bombings blatantly boasted about their actions.When explosions damaged International Business Machines, General Telephone Electronics, and Pegasus Oil in Manhattan, a group calling itself Revolutionary Force Nine admitted they had set the explosives and accused the companies of relying on the Vietnam War to Make a fortune.There are also some bombing cases, because the terrorists are not familiar with the technology, and they even blow up themselves.Within a month of IBM, General Telephone, and Pegasus being bombed, a private bomb factory blew up in an apartment building on New York's Lower East Side, killing one revolutionary and hurting another. seriously injured.In Baltimore, followers of Rapp Brown, two black fighters, died when a bomb exploded prematurely in their car. On March 6, Greenwich Village was shaken by one of the most sensational bombing disasters of 1970, killing three young nihilists and implicating the names of several wealthy families. Kathryn Pratt Wilkerson, a recent Swarthmore Women's University graduate, and Diana Orton and Kathy Bodine, Bryn Mawr Women's University alumni, all She's a female member of the weatherman faction.Diana is the daughter of an ultra-conservative, very respectable Illinois multi-millionaire. A century ago, King Edward VII, who was only Prince of Wales at that time, visited this unusual family mansion.Casey is the niece of I.F. Stone.Her father, Leonard Bodine, was a well-known lawyer whose clients included such figures as Paul Robertson, Judith Coplan, and Julian Bond; Alsberg's defense attorney.Kathryn's father owned a string of radio stations.This month he is on vacation in the Caribbean with his second wife.When he was away, Kathleen entertained Diana and Kathy at the Wilkerson family's elegant $100,000 townhouse at 18 West 11th Street in Manhattan, along with a Columbia College Student for a Democratic Society Society chapter activist Ted Gold and another young man—whose name and identity remain a mystery. It was a clear, sunny day in New York at noon on that unfortunate day, with a hint of impending spring in the air.The house next door that belonged to actor Dustin Hoffman was empty. The 18th seemed quiet, but the young revolutionaries in the room were busy.Two popular slogans of the Weatherman faction at the time were, "If you don't believe in guns and violence, you're not a revolutionist" and "Take the war home."On Monday, one of the young men, dressed as a priest, drove to New Hampshire to buy two boxes of explosives.现在地下室里的临时车间到处放置着57只梯恩梯棒，另外还有摩擦带、屋顶用钉、定时装置、门铃金属线、30条爆炸引线，以及准备装炸药用的一节节铅管。 可能永远不会有人能够确切知道事情是怎么发生的，肯定有某一个人闯了祸，引起了全部的爆炸。这人可能是黛安娜；她的肢体全部四分五裂了——她的头、双手和一只脚都被炸掉了，她的躯干被屋顶用钉扎得尽是窟窿。戈尔德和那个身份未查明的青年也死了。第一次爆炸冲穿了霍夫曼房屋起居室的墙，把对街的许多玻璃窗都震碎了，并使相隔16座门的一个厨房都受到震动。接着，煤气总管着火了，又引起两次爆炸，楼板开始坍塌。 房子里剩下惊呆了和流着血的凯思琳和凯西，一个全裸着，一个还穿着一点衣服。两名警察和一个退休的消防队员(约翰·尼亚里在《生活》杂志上挖苦地写道：“这两个姑娘原会叫他们'猪'的。”)前来救出了她们，一个邻居让她们使用了她家的淋浴设备，并借给她们衣服穿。然后她们就不知去向了。最初消防队认为煤气漏气是这次灾害的起因。后来他们发现了炸药和爆炸雷管，以及成堆的争取民主社会大学生协会的宣传小册子。这一来，他们就急于要讯问那两个幸存者。纽约当局得知凯西和凯思琳于去年10月里在芝加哥参加“气象员狂怒日”活动已受到控告，后来是被保释出来的。3月16日她们没有出庭接受审判，于是联邦调查局也参加了对她们的搜捕。她们家里人说两个姑娘曾捎信回来说她们还活着，但没有谈任何其他情况。 在美国的另一边，加利福尼亚州自曼森屠杀案以来所发生的最厉害的大规模凶杀案，被归咎于激进派政治与巫术的离奇的结合。县执法官的助手们在一次例行的巡逻中，看见蒙特雷湾上眼外科医生维克托·奥塔的价值25万元的房屋冒着火焰。他们叫来了消防队，消防队员到奥塔的游泳池去找水，却在那里发现了外科医生、他的妻子、他们的两个儿子和医生的秘书的尸体。他们都被用艳丽的围巾捆着，用枪从脑后射杀。警察在这位外科医生的汽车挡风玻璃的刮水器下发现了一张草草书写的字条：“自本日起，不论何人……凡是滥用自然环境或加以破坏的人，均将受到处死的惩罚……我和我的同志们，自本日起将战斗至死或至不再有不维护这个星球上的自然生物的任何事物和任何人时为止。物质至上主义必须死亡，不然人类就将灭绝。”签名是塔罗特算命纸牌上的词儿：“持杖骑士、持杯骑士、持符骑士、持剑骑士。”签名者被发现是居住在半英里外的一个破棚子里的一个留着胡子的青年约翰·弗雷泽。弗雷泽的律师说，他的当事人在一次汽车事故中撞伤了头，那以后就“完全变了”。 这一年在加利福尼亚州最出名的革命行动鼓吹者是一位黝黑的26岁的黑人美女安吉拉·戴维斯。安吉拉是黑人中产阶段家庭的女儿，她曾经是伯明翰的一个女童子军，一直到1963年9月该地一教堂被炸以致她的四个黑人女友都被炸死以前，她看来对社会并无不满。在布兰代斯大学她被选进了大学优秀生联谊会，热心钻研马克思和赫伯特·马尔库塞的作品，接着在巴黎大学和德国当研究生，后来到加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校成了马尔库塞的门徒。在这里她参加了黑豹党和共产党。在一次演讲中她对大学班的学生说：“政府必须推翻。”在另一次演说中她又说：“革命现在必须全力处理具体问题，不能空喊革命口号，而是要解决真正的根本性问题。”她参加了冲进圣迭戈校园一座大楼的行动，并因拒绝离开一个警察局而被捕。 她在加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校任助教教哲学的时候，里根州长的校董会按照校董会禁止共产党员担任教职员的决议，于1970年4月议决将她解雇。但因加利福尼亚州和美国联邦最高法院都认为不能仅以共产党员为理由解雇教授，不容在州立大学教学，校董会于是把辞退她的理由改为不能胜任。学生和加州大学洛杉矶分校教职员大多数都站在安吉拉一边。她的教授同事们做出决议，对她的解职表示了“我们的震惊，我们的沮丧，我们的愤慨”。他们决定抗拒校董会，仍把她留在教职员中，这一问题一直尚未解决，而另一个新问题的出现却使她的问题完全改变性质了。 作为一个参加战斗的黑人，安吉拉也曾参加要求释放“索尔达德兄弟”的鼓动活动——这三个黑人囚犯实际彼此并没有任何亲属关系，他们被控于1月16日在索尔达德监狱杀害了一个白人看守。三人中最有趣的是27岁的乔治·杰克逊，他因1961年一件加油站的抢劫案而正在服五年至无期的徒刑。作为《索尔达德兄弟》(杰克逊的狱中书信集)一书的作者，这年秋天他将成为全国最有名的囚犯。书中最动人的信件的一部分是写给安吉拉的，她是这年5月在萨利纳斯法庭上一次审讯中首次见到他的。在她自己给杰克逊的信中以及在一本日记中，她表明她“不由自主地”爱上了杰克逊。她自称她是杰克逊的“终身的妻子”，并说将把自己一生献给营救他的事业。她还说，她将不惜采取一切可能采取的办法。这段话后来引起了人们很大的兴趣。 8月的第一个星期里，人们常看到安吉拉同乔纳森·杰克逊——乔治的17岁的弟弟——在一起。属于她所有的三支枪到了乔纳森手中，另外还有她于8月5日买下的一支12号锯短的猎枪。那一天是星期三。星期四她同乔纳森开着他前一天租来的一辆嫩黄色的小型密闭式福特牌有挡板的运货汽车到处活动。星期五这辆货车停在距旧金山西北13英里的圣拉斐尔法院外面的停车处。几分钟之后，身材细长、精神紧张的乔纳森，穿着一件雨衣，手提着一只小包，走进了一间审判室。 当时在证人席上的是鲁切尔·马吉，一个监禁在圣昆廷监狱的囚犯，他是在为被控刺杀一个看守的同狱囚犯詹姆斯·麦克莱恩的案子作证。另一个黑人同狱犯人，威廉·克里斯马斯，正等待传唤。马吉、麦克莱因、克里斯马斯都是体格强壮的年轻人，其中坐在辩护律师桌旁的麦克莱因是在圣昆廷谁都知道的一个善于闹事和煽动的黑豹党人。高级法院的哈罗德·哈利法官主持审判。代理地方检察官是加里·托马斯，他的妻子是法官的侄女。法院里有一个陪审团，但年轻的杰克逊是惟一的旁听者。这案件很单调乏味。 当乔纳森拉开提包上的拉链，取出安吉拉的一支左轮手枪，并从雨衣下亮出一支30毫米口径的卡宾枪时，法庭上马上变得活跃起来了。“你们瞧瞧!”他喊叫着。“我手里是自动武器。谁也不许动!”他命令没有带武器的法警解开麦克莱恩、马吉、克里斯马斯的手铐，他又分给三个解脱了手铐的犯人每人一支枪。他把猎枪给了麦克莱恩，麦克莱恩把枪带套在法官的脖子上，所以枪口离哈利的下巴只有几英寸。其他的犯人把托巴斯和三个女陪审员用钢琴弦捆绑在一起。麦克莱恩命令法官打电话给执法官办公室，指示他让同狱犯安全退出。“我现在在审判室里，”哈利对着法官席上的电话机里说，“这里有几个带枪的犯人。”麦克莱恩把电话机抢过来，对着里面大声喊叫：“你得把你们那些猪调开去，我们要离开这里，把他们全叫走!” 黑人赶着那群人质往前走，到离大厅约五十英尺的记者室前停了下来，但是门是锁着的。当他们沿着走廊走下去时，麦克莱恩叫道：“我们要索尔达德兄弟在今天12点30分之前得到释放!”在停车处他们把五个人质推进福特运货汽车。麦克莱恩斜身坐到驾驶盘前去，乔纳森把钥匙交给他，马吉接过了看守法官的任务，然后他们向约二百码外的美国第101号公路驶去。瞧着他们的是躲在别的车辆和房屋后面的数百名司法人员。忽然，一个圣昆廷看守飞快冲到有挡板的运货汽车前面，大声叫道：“停下来!” 紧接着是一片疯狂景象，车内外子弹横飞。这当中，货车后部发出了猎枪的轰鸣声。法官也就立即了结了，他的下颚和一部分面孔被炸掉了。托马斯脊骨上中了一枪，此后从腰部以下将终身瘫痪。一个陪审团员的臂膀受了伤。马吉胸部中了枪，但是仍然活着。麦克莱恩、克里斯马斯和乔纳森·杰克逊都死了。 三小时之后，安吉拉·戴维斯在旧金山航空站购买了一张飞机票，就此销声匿迹。 根据加利福尼亚州的法律，在凶杀案之前，任何人给杀人者以支持的，同样犯杀人罪，于是对她发出了逮捕状。黑豹党领袖休伊·牛顿说，他相信法庭射击事件是安吉拉筹划的，为她感到骄傲，并且希望其他的人学习她的“英勇榜样”。一个为黑豹党人辩护的白人律师查尔斯·加里大声喊叫：“愿安吉拉·戴维斯发挥更大的力量!愿她平安长寿。”实际上安吉拉逍遥法外只两个多月。联邦调查局的特工人员于10月13日在曼哈顿逮捕了她，那时她同一个有钱的黑人小戴维·鲁道夫·波恩德克斯特一起登记住在一所霍华德·约翰逊汽车旅馆里。波因德克斯特被控藏匿逃犯，安吉拉被引渡关进了圣拉斐尔的一所监狱，距离乔治·杰克逊在圣昆廷监狱的牢房不到五英里。 差不多一年之后，于1971年一个酷热的8月，杰克逊见了他的律师斯蒂芬·米切尔·宾厄姆。宾厄姆是白人，耶鲁大学毕业，是曾经担任过康涅狄格州州长和美国参议员的海勒姆·宾厄姆的孙子。监狱里的官员后来确信，一直热心于少数民族事业的年轻的宾厄姆这一天负有私运违禁品进监狱的任务。他带着未经看守检查的两只小包：一个装得很满的牛皮纸信封和一只小型手提式录音机。在他同杰克逊进行了一小时会谈离去之后，一个看守注意到这个在押犯的非洲型的发式有点异样。当他问到此事时，这个黑人拉下假发，从中取出了一支小型自动手枪。 接着是一片恐怖和死亡的场面。按照杰克逊的命令，27个囚犯，包括正在逐渐恢复健康的鲁切尔·马吉，被释放了。然后三个白人看守和两个受优待的白人犯人被杀死，其中两人是在脑后开枪打死的，其他几个人被一把钝剃刀割断了喉咙。死尸像血染的地毯堆放在杰克逊单人牢房的一个墙角里。这时圣昆廷监狱的警报器已经在刺耳地尖叫着。杰克逊一手仍然握着手枪，他突然夺门而出，全速奔跑过一片空旷的场院约75英尺，才被瞭望塔上的射手开枪打死。 斯蒂芬·宾厄姆被控谋杀看守和受优待的罪犯——县里的检察官说：“除了利用与宾厄姆会见的机会外，杰克逊是无法弄到那把杀人的手枪的。”但是他毫未留下踪迹，就此不见了。第二年，当局说他可能已经死了；可能那些好斗的黑人在利用过他之后，就把他弄死了。司法人员对于8月21日的凶杀事件感到愤恨。黑人活动分子也义愤填膺，杰克逊在他们心目中成了一位烈士。他的遗体给穿上了黑豹党人的制服——黑皮夹克、黑贝雷帽、黑衬衫——埋葬在乔纳森的墓旁。朱利安·邦德谈到他被“暗杀”，谈到“他不断进攻一个在精神或肉体上都无法战胜他的那一邪恶制度使他终于遭到了这个意料之中的结果”。加利福尼亚州议会众议员威利·布朗说：“一般人都认为这是对他执行死刑，认为说杰克逊头发里藏着枪是荒谬可笑的。”安吉拉·戴维斯则在文章中说到“失去了不可弥补的爱情”。 1972年暮春对安吉拉的审判是国际上一项大事。她那优美的侧面形态、高颧骨和非洲式发型——她在逃亡时曾经剪掉头发，但是后来又已长出来——曾出现在世界各处的招贴画上。战斗性的标语把她叫做“政治犯”，要求“释放安吉拉”!检察当局声称，该案与政治和种族问题全然无关，纯属刑事案件，并拿出了201件物证和95个证人的证词。有三个人证明她在那次企图逃跑事件发生的前一天曾伴同乔纳森到过法院对过的加油站，还有其他一些人证明前三天每天都有人看到她同他在一起。 被告辩护律师提出12个证人的证词(安吉拉自己决定不作证)，并且嘲笑那种认为“一位出色的大学教授”会卷入这种轻率的阴谋的想法。她的律师们说，她与乔纳森在一起的时间并不像某些人说的那么经常。他们不否认安吉拉是把猎枪交给了他，但他只能用这枪来保卫索尔达德兄弟辩护委员会的总部。其他的枪安吉拉都放在她家里的枪架上，是备格瓦拉-卢蒙巴俱乐部的成员练习打靶用的。乔纳森在法院惨案发生之前六天曾到她家看她，可能是那时他把枪偷走了。 被告方面作总结发言的律师说，现在要定她的罪的仅有的证据只是“安吉拉同乔纳森·杰克逊关系密切，使用的是她的枪支，她曾表示要求释放索尔达德兄弟，她曾表示过自己对乔治·杰克逊的爱情，以及她于8月7日没有让当局找到她”。这位律师断言，在座的陪审员，如果他是黑人，如果他发现自己所有的四支枪曾被用于法院的企图逃跑事件，那他们也是会逃亡的。“我对你们说，如果你们通过一个黑人的眼睛来看这形势，你们就不会奇怪她为什么逃掉了。你们只会奇怪她为什么会让自己被人抓住。” 陪审团经过了13个小时的审议之后，裁决她无罪。安吉拉对陪审团背过脸去，她离开审判室，到外面去向她的崇拜者讲话。一个记者问她是否认为她受到了公平的审判。She said no. “宣判无罪本身，”她说，“就说明不曾有公平审判，因为如真公平就根本不应当有什么审判。”在她出发进行胜利的全国旅行的时候，她告诉她的拥护者，“从今以后，我们必须尽一切努力解放我国和全世界的每一个政治犯和每一个受压迫的人。” 索尔达德屠杀案引起了一连串连锁反应，最后以安吉拉的大出风头而告终，在此四个星期之后，芝加哥的另一件异乎寻常的审判也宣告结束了。这次审判开庭时有八个被告：他们是易皮士杰里·鲁宾和阿比·霍夫曼；把反战运动示威者带到芝加哥来的全国运动委员会的三位领导人：伦尼·戴维斯、戴维·德林杰和争取民主社会大学生协会的托姆·海登；黑豹党人博比·西尔；还有李·韦纳和约翰·弗罗因斯。在他们被捕之前，这些被告有些人彼此并不认识，并且事实上控诉他们的主要罪状不是搞阴谋，而是指控他们各自进入伊利诺伊州来煽动暴乱——“怀着某种思想跨过了州界。”首席辩护律师维廉·孔斯特勒说。他们的另一位律师伦纳德·魏因格拉斯把法院援用的法令——作为1968年公民权利法案的附加条款而通过的——叫做“政府可以对没有明显犯法行为的人进行处分的惟一的联邦法律”。他们是第一批以这条法律为据遭到控告的被告，虽然这个事实和其他许多事实在诉讼程序越来越胡闹的情况中早被人忘掉了。 孔斯特勒由于认为朱利叶斯·霍夫曼法官向陪审团宣读控告书的口气不当而提议宣告审讯无效，这样他就在审讯的第一天为这次审讯定下了调子。这位律师说：“阁下让人听起来好像奥森·韦尔斯在朗诵《独立宣言》。” “还从来没有人拿我同奥森·韦尔斯这位伟大的演员相比过，”法官说，“但是我拒绝接受你的提议。” 总共说来，被告律师前后提出了二十多次审讯无效的动议，而这次审讯所以如此骚乱，在很大程度上，是由以孔斯特勒、魏因格拉斯和他们的主雇为一方，同霍夫曼法官和州律师等为另一方之间的巨大分歧引起的。美联社芝加哥分社的理查德·西科恩写道：“这次审讯，表现了两代人之间、不同的意识形态之间和不同的生活方式之间的冲突。”霍夫曼法官穿了一件坎肩；阿比·霍夫曼挂着博爱珠项圈，穿着麂皮衣裤，而在一次群起哄笑的审讯中，他和鲁宾两人又都穿上了法官的长袍出庭。鲁宾和霍夫曼都留着胡须。被告们和他们的几位律师都留着长发，对此，头发理得十分整洁的两位检察官托马斯·福伦和理查德·舒尔茨还特别挖苦地提到了这一点。 在艾伦·金斯伯格为被告方面作证时，有一次他表演了他于1968年如何用长达十秒钟的一声“啊—喔姆!”使反战的芝加哥示威者静下来的情况。孔斯特勒抗议法官不应发笑，法官阁下又对此否认。他说：“我只是不懂他叫的是什么语言。”金斯伯格解释说：“这是梵语。”法官说：“这是一种我不懂的语言。”记录说明法庭方面不懂的事很多，但是霍夫曼对于在他的法庭内应当遵守礼仪可是一点不含糊的。自从他于74年前在芝加哥一个卑贱的居民区出生以来，他已习惯于要到他面前来的人尊敬他，但现在这芝加哥八被告和他们的辩护律师都没有给予他这种尊敬。在一次开庭前的预审中就出现了最初征兆，预告将会发生什么情况。孔斯特勒和魏因格拉斯要求询问陪审团候选人对抗议示威、美国贫民窟和越南战争的看法如何。霍夫曼法官拒绝了他们的要求，他说他们甚至也不能询问未来的陪审团员对嬉皮士和易皮士有什么看法。被告方面紧接着的另一个要求是，推迟审讯，等到西尔的律师查尔斯·加里手术后康复再举行。这项要求霍夫曼也拒绝了，他接着拒绝西尔要求自己对法庭讲话的权利，但告诉西尔，他将允许孔斯特勒代表他讲话，这样一来，法庭上的一片混乱就开始了。 西尔说：“我只能认为这位法官是一个铁杆种族主义者。”矮个子的法官跳了起来。“你听到他说的话吗·”他难以置信地问一个办事员。这个黑豹党领导人当时和以后一而再地受到警告，扰乱审讯的行为将“在未来某一时候要予以适当的处理”。西尔回嘴说：“你能对我使出三百年来你们没有对黑人使用过的什么新招儿呢·”审讯进行到第八周时，法官对西尔的许多带火气的话进行反击：“注意，年轻人，你如果继续如此——”西尔回答：“注意，老头子，你如果一再剥夺我的宪法权利，你就将被暴露在全世界面前——”霍夫曼说：“西尔先生，你是愿意住口呢，还是要我叫法警——”西尔说：“我要对此事进行争辩，好让你对事实有所了解。”