Cracks in the Coalition

SAN FRANCISCO STATE

The past few months have been dismal ones for California educators. Bands of militants roam across the numerous state college and university campuses, smashing, burning and beating. The homes of administrators and professors are shot up and firebombed. Threats of assassination become part of daily life. At San Francisco State radicals buy weapons with student funds. At the College of San Mateo they re-enact the Nazi Night of the Broken Glass. At Berkeley, where the Third World Liberation Front has called a student strike, Wheeler Hall, one of the most imposing buildings on campus, is gutted by a “mysterious” fire. And at UCLA, traditionally the most conservative of the California campuses, two black students are murdered by black members of a rival organization.

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John R. Coyne Jr.

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SAN FRANCISCO STATE

The past few months have been dismal ones for California educators. Bands of militants roam across the numerous state college and university campuses, smashing, burning and beating. The homes of administrators and professors are shot up and firebombed. Threats of assassination become part of daily life. At San Francisco State radicals buy weapons with student funds. At the College of San Mateo they re-enact the Nazi Night of the Broken Glass. At Berkeley, where the Third World Liberation Front has called a student strike, Wheeler Hall, one of the most imposing buildings on campus, is gutted by a “mysterious” fire. And at UCLA, traditionally the most conservative of the California campuses, two black students are murdered by black members of a rival organization.