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■ Watch the Angela Davis operation: It’s the biggest Communist propaganda blast in years. India: S. A. Dange, head of CP of India: “Angela Davis is an example of how ruthlessly the Nixon Administration has started a round of McCarthyite witch-hunts to smother all voices of protest.” Italy: Italian Communists are circulating petitions in factories, shops and schools demanding that the government formally oppose the imprisonment of Angela Davis. France: French crooner and Communist sympathizer Yves Montand and a host of other French actors cable Governor Rockefeller urging him to free Angela Davis. … In this country, Judge George Crockett of Detroit comes out in favor of Angela Davis. (In case you’ve forgotten, he’s the judge who released eight Negroes involved in the shooting and killing of a policeman following a meeting of Republic of New Africa in Detroit a year ago.) Singer Aretha Franklin announces she’s ready to go bail for Angela Davis “whether it’s $100,000 or $250,000. I’ve got the money. I got it from black people . . . and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.” . . . Meanwhile, back at San Rafael, California, the five remaining Superior Court judges say they will disqualify themselves from the Angela Davis trial. It was one of their colleagues who was killed in the courtroom kidnaping and shootout that resulted in Angela Davis’ arrest.

■ Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says he sees “no reason why [Sen. Harry] Byrd should not sit with the Democrats” in the 92nd Congress, in obvious rebuke to liberal Democrats headed by Fred Harris (Okla.) who have been making purge-Byrd sounds (Byrd ran as an independent this year). . . . Sen. Goodell now intimating he may switch parties. “A battle for the soul of the Republican Party is under way. I intend to remain a Republican as long as I can, consistent with my convictions.” . . . Sen. Wallace Bennett (R., Utah) succeeds retiring Sen. John J. Williams (Del.) as chairman of the Senate Republican Committee on Committees— which means he’s the man who passes out the committee assignments. Bennett is a conservative (ACA, 85 per cent; ADA, 6 per cent). . . . Republican National Committee in Washington so impressed by job that Agora Group did for James Buckley that it called in President Phil Nicolaides for consultation right after the election.

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■ Watch the Angela Davis operation: It’s the biggest Communist propaganda blast in years. India: S. A. Dange, head of CP of India: “Angela Davis is an example of how ruthlessly the Nixon Administration has started a round of McCarthyite witch-hunts to smother all voices of protest.” Italy: Italian Communists are circulating petitions in factories, shops and schools demanding that the government formally oppose the imprisonment of Angela Davis. France: French crooner and Communist sympathizer Yves Montand and a host of other French actors cable Governor Rockefeller urging him to free Angela Davis. … In this country, Judge George Crockett of Detroit comes out in favor of Angela Davis. (In case you’ve forgotten, he’s the judge who released eight Negroes involved in the shooting and killing of a policeman following a meeting of Republic of New Africa in Detroit a year ago.) Singer Aretha Franklin announces she’s ready to go bail for Angela Davis “whether it’s $100,000 or $250,000. I’ve got the money. I got it from black people . . . and I want to use it in ways that will help our people.” . . . Meanwhile, back at San Rafael, California, the five remaining Superior Court judges say they will disqualify themselves from the Angela Davis trial. It was one of their colleagues who was killed in the courtroom kidnaping and shootout that resulted in Angela Davis’ arrest.

■ Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield says he sees “no reason why [Sen. Harry] Byrd should not sit with the Democrats” in the 92nd Congress, in obvious rebuke to liberal Democrats headed by Fred Harris (Okla.) who have been making purge-Byrd sounds (Byrd ran as an independent this year). . . . Sen. Goodell now intimating he may switch parties. “A battle for the soul of the Republican Party is under way. I intend to remain a Republican as long as I can, consistent with my convictions.” . . . Sen. Wallace Bennett (R., Utah) succeeds retiring Sen. John J. Williams (Del.) as chairman of the Senate Republican Committee on Committees— which means he’s the man who passes out the committee assignments. Bennett is a conservative (ACA, 85 per cent; ADA, 6 per cent). . . . Republican National Committee in Washington so impressed by job that Agora Group did for James Buckley that it called in President Phil Nicolaides for consultation right after the election.