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the basic principles of Soviet-American WARS AG. toca ig on zowski in a speech on national televi. economy, Mr. 0’
relations’ and putting “pressure on ber of the ‘Botta Csieniee Party sion, lent substance to increasing specu- His speech ca:
other states, particularly in Europe, to Politburo warned tonight that the Soviet | !ation here that Moscow might now turn | level meetings b
curtail their ties with the socialist coun. Union might cut back on shi a to economic sanctions, not military in- | relations. A Sov:
tries.” strategic ys mania te sami he tervention, in an effort to curb the liber- Deputy Prime
Mr. Gromyko did not mention the re. anise “ann Soviet"’ Any me! va alization drive spearheaded by the Soll- Baibakov, chai:.
cent and rapid buildup in Soviet $S-20 ne ned me Beevity in Poland darity trade union. Such a development | ning Commissio,
missiles, especially in Europe, the chief Pee. ture trade agrr
reason given by the North Aaa quests for more «
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ALBANY, Sept. 22 — The disputed
¥ | At one point,
rugby match between the Eastern various groups,
Rugby Union and the touring South Afri. nee
can Springboks team got under way Continwed on |
here tonight in heavy rain in a small :
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floodlighted stadium Surrounded by po.
lice officers and a thousand demonstra- eg ])
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and carrying soggy signs, the demon. US. Bisho;
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apartheid policy, shouted “Stop the States will assi
game, join the march” as they walked vestigation of s
behind a cordon of police officers and | guide church p!
marshals from their own group. When .
the game began at 6:40 P.M., 20 minutes Space Shu
ahead of schedule, fewer than 300 A spill of toxic
spectators were in the stadium to watch pd ne
the game. i
Authorities, meanwhile, searched for launching at lea
the origin of a bomb that damaged the | )~» about
Rugby Union's office in nearby Schenec. | Amann
tady early this morning. > pitted Books i
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discovered the car he was driving had / ‘
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j with illegal possessicti of a stolen auto” § :
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ba anproces in the meee? at Canal Vera. Michaelson, 34, af it Central’. Plane kills tee
whe + Lig iy Ave, was charged with illegal posses- “an piiog a8
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, Knickerbocker News the caller was — Young's case, said he expects to file a iat on the scene indicated at least 129
q | Very concise and had “good diction."” . bail application in county court soldiers were killed and another - 100 -
. ite said he did not remember the © Wednesday or Thursday. injured. All were believed Turkish, io
t caller's exact words, but this was his Because the application, will not be There were conflicting reports. on’:
e paraphrased recollection: - “. filed till then, Porco said it appeared whether the’casualties were the result :
Continued on Page@A — Young, one of the more vowal critics of of the plane having hit an amunition
, the game, will miss the demonstration dump or an explosion when the plane
, planned*for this evening. crashed, :
Spearman was also assigried a public Military sources said the pilot was
' defender, the court official said. Itwas practicing a diving run ‘over the bi-
not knownawhether Ms. Michelson and — vouac area and was unable to pull the .
Estis retainecl private attorneys. © «° plane out of its descent.,It was’ “Pot |
. , known if the pilot had ejected. - s
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| sponsored the Springboks’ tour,
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of America that, inside the stadium, —
' sportsmen are able to do what they
| want to do, and outside the stadium
+ protesters are able to do what they
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Part I / Wednesday, September 23, 1981 *
»»*ingboks Skunk Opponents in Court, on Field
Rugby Team Wins Right to Play and the Game, 41-0; Riot Fails to Materialize
By DOYLE McMANUS,
Times Staff Writer
ALBANY, N.Y.—South Africa’s
ational rugby team overcame Gov.
lugh L. Carey, an appeal to the
S. Supreme Court, a pre-dawn
splosion and—finally—an Ameri-
an amateur all-star squad Tuesday
9 win the second match of a con-
‘roversial U.S. tour.
The South Africans, known as the
Springboks, trounced the U.S. East-
ern Rugby Union's Colonials, 41-0,
in a match that was anti-climatic
ufter a seesaw struggle over wheth-
er the game would be played at all.
An estimated 1.500 demonstra-
tors, including folk singer Pete See-
ger, marched, chanted and sang ina
cold and driving rain outside Al-
bany's Bleecker Municipal Stadium
protesting the presence of the
Springboks, whom they accused of
representing South Africa’s racial
segi egation policy.
re man armed with a knife was
ia ed inside the stadium, Police
Cha Thomas Burke said. But there
was no violence outside, and the
chilling deluge gradually dispersed
the demonstrators with no help
from the police, who wore bive not
helmets and ringed the stadiuin.
No Sign of KKK
The marchers said they came
from groups ranging from local
churches and the National Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Col-
, ored People to the Communist
t Workers Party, an extremist faction
' that has occasionally turned other-;
wise peaceful demonstrations into
; bloody confrontations with police.
But there was no sign of the white
. supremacist Ku Klux Klan, which
. state officials warned might stage a
' counter-demonatration.
nt of
nion, which
Thomas Seifridge,
‘hailed the match as a victory of
politics. “I think it’s a
int to do,” he said. ;
Jelfridge’s offices in Schenecta-
dy, N.Y., only a few miles from Al-
‘ bany, were slightly damaged early
’ Tuesday by a bomb that exploded in
; anearby hallway closet.
o
'
‘
s The evening's horrendous
. weather’ did not deter the green-
_shirted Springboks, the red-jer-
+ seyed Colonials and 1,867 rugby afi-
tite tae eaeiaeeien eel
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No Boycott
of 84 Games,
Africans Say -
From a Times Staff Writer
BADEN-BADEN, West Germany
~The president of the Association
of African National Olympic Com-
mittees formally declared at the
World Olympic Congress here
Tuesday night that there will be no
boycott of the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympic Games because of the cur-
rent U.S. tour of a South African
rugby team.
The statement by Anani Matthia
of Togo, coming after a four-hour
meeting of the group's executive
council, confirmed reports Monday
that any move toward a boycott had
been squelched.
Matthia said the Africans were
“extremely happy to hear” leaders
of the International Olympic Com-
mittee and the U.S. Olympic Com-
mittee say Monday that they de-
plore the rugby tour and had sought
to block it.
“We recognize the efforts of men
of good will to combat racial discri-
mination,” he said. “The question of
a boycott does not arise.”
About a dozen African Olympic
representatives attended Tuesday's
meeting.
cionados from holding the match on
schedule.
“In England, we consider this
perfect rugby weather,” said a cor-
respondent of the British Broad-
casting Corp., who journeyed from
London to cover the Springboks’
tour,
The hundreds of other
on hand, who seemed lese cheerful ,
than the spectators, included a Jq-
panese television crew and at least
one South African reporter.
Outside the stadium's eight-foot
wrought-iron fence, the mood of
the demonstrators was dogged.
“We are marching for human
brotherhood,” said Pear] Campbell,
71, an Albany teacher swathed in a
bright orange parka, who came with
other members of the United Meth-
odist Church.
“We may be wet, but we're dry
behind the ears,” she said, and
smiled a grandmotherly smile. “And
you can see that God is weeping
over this match.”
As a security measure, no tickets
to the match were on sale to the
public. Tickets were sold privately, ‘
in advance, to members of rugby
clubs.
Last week, Carey ordered the
match canceled because he said it
would create an “imminent danger
of riot.” But on Monday a federal
district court judge ruled that the
governor's action was unconstitu-
tional. Lawyers for the state ap-
pealed the ruling Tuesday to a
three-judge federal court of appeals
in Manhattan and then to U.S. Su-
preme Court Justice Thurgood Mar-
shall, but both agreed with the low-
er court judge that the match should
goon.
No One Hurt in Blast
Detectives investigating the ex-
plosion at the rugby union office
said it caused more damage to the
offices of an ice cream company
than to the rugby association. In-
vestigators said they believe the ex-
plosives were placed by someone
protesting the Springboks’ U.S,
tour. No one was injured,
Shards of glass littered the
sidewalk outside the building as po-
lice and officials of the Federal Di-
vision of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms sifted through debris
seeking clues.
A spokesman for the NAACP in
Albany said his organization “de-
plored” the bombing.
The explosion in Schenectady
heightened concern in Albany. Be-
fore the game was scheduled to be-
gin, police there arrested three men
and a woman in an apartment used
as the local headquarters of the
Communist Workers Party. The Al-
bany Police Department reported
that a loaded 38-caliber revolver
was found, along with a quantity of
Members of the all-star team
representing the Eastern Rugby
Union said they were surprised at
the volume of ts surrounding
the match but undeterred from
their intention to play.
“We would have played no mat-
ter what,” said George Betzler of
Valley Forge, Pa., the U.S. coach.
“The Springboks don't represent
the South African government.
They represent the South African
Rugby Union, When the Russians
come here to play hockey, do we
have to agree with all their policies
before we play?”
“! can sympathize with the de-
monstrators,” said James Fox, a |
estate broker from Boston who
forward “prop” on the Ame:
team. “I hope they do demons
and show the people of South A
how many
apartheid. They are getting
attention with the match go.
than they would have if it had
canceled, They have a rig
protest, but not to prevent.
don’t have the right to preve
match from going on.”
The Springboks, widely re;
‘ as the world’s best rugby
played an exhibition match la
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ment reported
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all-star team
stern Rugby
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iter ‘rom
Jjayed no mat-
‘ge Betzler of
TES eoach
monstrators,” said James Fox, a real
estate broker from Boston who is a
forward “prop” on the American
team. “I hope they do demonstrate
and show the people of South Africa
how many Americans are against
apartheid. They are getting more
attention with the match going on
than they would have if it had been
canceled. They have a right to
protest, but not to prevent. They
don't have the right to prevent the
match from going on.”
The Springboks, widely regarded
as the world's best rugby team,
played an exhibition match last Sat -
urday in Racine, Wis. A final match
is scheduled for this Saturday, but
both New York City and Rochester,
N.Y., have refused to host it. Self-
ridge said the Eastern Rugby Union
will announce a site for the game
“when it is appropriate.”
While players and police pre-
pared for the Albany match, in
Washington the House of Repre-
sentatives refused to go on record
against the Springboks’ tour. The
resolution won a slim majority on
the floor, 200 to 198, but fell far
short of the two-thirds vote needed
for passage.
In voting down the resolution,
some members said that although
they oppose the South African poli-
cy of apartheid, the resolution was
mistaken in its effort to mix politics
and sports.
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was driving the Toyota on U.S. 61
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Two jailed before rugby game say they’re ‘victims’
:* Ry JOHN RUNFOLA 4/0 0-7.
a Knickerbocker News Reporter
Tan Communist Workers Party members remain
( tediay an teu of $10,000 bail
wm Alboyy Cees
| aed
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taunt toe ta paweney Kah Ae
he aad Storer Ve a oH! Keodhiivn were ted in
have ard oe frat the Aihany County
Cavintteaise Tareas, weiter aiuietar tem Certo’ Our:
ty Judve Jasepn | i. for & faut hearing
Vera Michaelson. os of 400 Central Ave,, Albany,
charged with dloca! passesyion of fireworks and
marijuana, was released on her own recognizance
Spearman and Young, whom pelee identified as
members of the Communist Workers Party, were
arrested Tuesday on several charges.
Spearman was arrested by Albany police as he
reached under the scat of an auto in a parking lot
acrass from Ui Thruway House, where the South
Attorney Joseph Donnelly
Spearman was charged with illegal possescian af
a loaded Wcalber automatic handgun and POSSES
won i. 4 étolen gute
Youre was arrested when police, who tad
warch warratt and were looking for weapons
i Mis Michaelson’s apartment
Young, who said he was the owner ef ihe ear
Spearman was dris ing when arrested, was charged
with Hlegal possession of a gun, fireworks and
marijuana. Donnelly said Young was charged with
pessession of the gun because he owned tie auto
where it was discovered
A speed-loader, filled with 38-caliber ammunition
and used to rapidly reload handguns of the type
seized by police, was found in Young's possession
during the raid.
Donnelly asked Harris to set bail at $25,009 each
= © oe Pa)
because neither man has any ti¢s to Albany County.
Harris, however, set bail at $10,000.
Harris said be saw Young on television prior to his
arrest saying he would take any means available”
to stop the rughy pare free oecurring Voune ka
sya ney * 4 ¥ ee &h Aw i bi wt f «oe
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enahtion and orwe.of tac DAE POOP ata he
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cane from New York City to help orpanize
Tuesaday & POWs
Yourgt already was in jail when One ruchy game
took place under heavy police protection at
soany's Bleecker Stadnun
Anita Thayer, who represented Ms Michaelson,
Said her chent had worked for srx weeks t4 miuke
sure the planned protest was peaceful and had ne
idea Young and Spearman had a weapon.
“She has been accused of crimes of very little
significance,”” said Ms. Thayer of the defendant,
who is employed by the faster prancdnarent program
at ihe O.D. Heck Developrnent Center, Niskayuna.
a@t-
3
September 28, 198]
The tour of the South African Springbok Rugby Team has ended. There are those
who believe that the matter Is now closed. There was much more Involved than
@ purported athletic event. it appears that the stage is now set for a change
in diplomatic relations between the United States and South Africa. This must
be our major concern and every step must be taken and all forces marshalled
to prevent this shift.
We now have substantial evidence that proves that the entire tour of the rugby
team was paid for by the South African government. We can also establish that
the entire Project was orchestrated by the same South African government. There
are American citizens who received substantial amounts of money to front for the
South African government. They were lobbyists and their mission was to create
a Public groundswell] for closer relations with South Africa. Our task is to
get al! of this information into the public Spotlight. The proper forum is the
Subcommittee on Africa of the House of Representatives of the United States
Congress. The Subcommittee has a legal obligation to closely examine any
shifts in the foreign policy of this country. The Subcommittee has the resources
and the subpoena power to examine key participants in the travesty. | have
been in touch with the staff of the Subcommittee and have discussed all of the
and act Promptly.
You can piay a major role in Prevailing upon the Subcommittee on Africa to move
churches, fraternities, sororities, Prince Hall Masons, Orders of the Eastern Star,
Elks and other Organizations to immediately send telegrams to Congressman Howard
Wolpe, Chairman of the committee, calling for an immediate investigation and also
if you are part of a national organization, please contact your national office
and urge it to ask chapters, lodges or churches throughout the country to fol low
the sare course of action. It would also help if individual members send
Na
said
telegrams. The main thrust is that we want Congress to know that thousands
of churches and other organizations are concerned and want immediate action.
We want Congress to know that the millions of Black people you represent are
watching closely.
The names and addresses of the people to contact are listed below. We would
appreciate a copy of your telegram in order to take them to Washington when
we meet with the Subcommittee. Thank you for your interest, concern and help.
Sincerely,
Or. Paul 8. Zuber
Professor of Law, Urban Affairs
Director, Center for Urban-Environmental Studies
PO TOY Ww uy bai ae ase
XN PBZ:jr
Hon. Shirley Chisholm
Member
House of Representatives
2182 Rayburn Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
Hon. Howard Wolpe
Chairman, Subcommittee on Africa
Committee on Foreign Affairs
1118 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20215
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ers Party chief Michael R. Young told a
; Teporter sat is the victim: of “political
' charges” w “show how far the U.S.
_ government will goto try to protect its. 2
foreign policy.”
™men and one woman arrested on the
.eve of the Springboks rugby game and a
’ simultaneous protest demonstration in
. Albany last Tuesday, said “people from
all walks of life’ joined in an “effective
. challenge’’ to the South African team’s
* Deciorig Soutls Africa’ 5 sovebelaaes
“is a “racist, brutal regime,” Young
~~ assailed the U.S. government and the
’ administration of President Ronald
- Reagan for “a whole trend” designed to
“thwart resistance ... similar to the
‘Vietnam days when they got the
— to. beat. up - Semenstrer
EAN 2S
re “We are “not intimidated me tascist
~~ factions," declared Young, adding that.
' “tne and my friends were singled out”’
- for political reasons.
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Greenberg
later: Sommnented, ee
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never seen a : Shares for ans ‘posses-
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political under the penal law."
Greenberg said a .38-caliber revolver —
was found in a car registered to Young, »
and was loaded with five rounds of .
ammunition with hollow heads (caus- ;
ing'a shot to spread upon impact). .
Additionally, Greenberg said that, }
found in Young's belongings in an ~
apartment where he was staying were a
speed loader, containing five more '
rounds, and an additional 35 rounds, all
» for’ a .38-caliber revolver.
Young also faces erieiiuane and. i
fireworks possession charges. 3
Jailed since his arrest Monday night,
Young was rejeased after he was
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VERA “MIKE” MICHELSON NzEDS AND DESERVES YOUR SUPPORT : "Mike", a long-time
local activist who has worked with many Of us in our struggles against
racism, corporate irresponsibility, nuclear power, militarism, sexism, and
for union rights, was arrested on Sept. 22, 1981 for her involvement in
the anti-apartheid movement. A dedicated worker for peace and justice,
she has over the years helped us with “our" causes. Now "Mike" needs our
help, and we, the Coalition Against Apartheid Defense Fund, ask you to
Support her.
THE GROWTH OF THE COALITION AGAIN APARTHEID: In the weeks before Albany's
infamous rugby game, the Coa 10n Against Apartheid grew rapidly and
became a visible, strong, multi-racial, and united voice calling for a
stop to the South African rugby tour. By mid-Sept., over 50 local organi-
zations (churches, civil rights groups, unions, etc.) and New York-based
SART had joined the Coalition and had directed their energy toward a
spirited, peaceful, and legal protest against apartheid and racism. The
Oalition was so successful that the media predicted over 10,000 protestors
would appear on Sept. 22nd.
THE ESTABLISHME RESPOND LTH VIOLENCE-BAITING: As the Coalition grew,
the Establishment responded with a Campaign of violence-baiting meant to
scare Off Coalition support. The city cancelled all police leaves, ordered
that National Guard help might be requested. The state announced its fear
of clashes between out-of-town groups and ensuing uncontrollable violence,
while Governor Carey tried to cancel the game in the interest of “public
safety". The media enlivened its coverage of the up-coming game with
footage of anti-apartheid violence in New Zealand. Protesting apartheid
was equated with fomenting violence.
THE STAGE IS SE OR POLICE SURVEILLANCE AND ATTACK: This violence-baiting
set the stage for police surveillance and eventual attack upon the Coaliton
and the wider community. Like Other Coalition leaders, "Mike* was under
Close police surveillance in the days leading up to the rugby game and
protest. The police doubtless knew that her apartment was a major distri-
bution center for Coalition leaflets, that Coalition committees often met
there, that she had extensive lists of Coalition members' names and phone
numbers, and that her phone was used as a major communication link between
the Coalition and SART and amo Coalition committees and members.
(OVER)
PO serene ane
POLIT R s When the police burst, with shotguns drawn,
nto e's” a ment a 120 AM on Sept. 22nd, we Suspect they were not
center of Coalition activities, and an excuse to neutralize the organizing
efforts of “Mike” and the two other activists who were staying in her
apartment. The police arrested “Mike” for violation Possession of less
than an ounce of marijuana and of eight miniature firecrackers, charges
comparable to minor speeding tickets. However, the police confiscated
from her apartment all of her keys, her personal telephone books, her
telephone bill listing recent long-distance calls, her lists of Coalition
members and their telephone numbers, and extensive name and phone lists
for other organizations in which she was active.
protected e Const gehts of
it trampled on those Of "Mike". After the political search of her apart-
ment and her political arrest, “Mike” was not read her rights, was hand-
cuffed to a table while being booked, was refused a phone call for 7 hours,
was refused bail for violation charges, was kept in lock-up and isolated
from the rest of the prison population for 31 hours, was confined in jail
until Sept. 24th, two days after the rugby game and protest.
the movement for peace and justice grow, rather than dwindle in the face of
intimidating threats and acts of police harassment.
BEST ITE SUCCESSFUL PROPEST, THE ESTABLISHMENT MISSTON WAS ACCOMPLISHED,
fhe Coa on's Sept. nd protest agains apartheid and racism was, as it
has always said it would be, a huge, legal and peaceful success. Millions
of Americans were educated about the meaning of apartheid, and millions
Came to understand the meaning of the South African rugby tour by seeing
the Springboks jeered at every stop, forced to play secret games, and
welcomed home to South Africa as heroes and ambassadors of apartheid. Yet
despite the Coalition's Success, the Establishment mission was, we fear,
accomplished. "Mike", the other two activists arrested with her, and her
apartment were paralyzed; information was gathered on a broad spectrum of
local activists; and peace and justice activism was equated with violence.
"M LKE”~AND THE REST OF US: SAME PLIGHT, SAME FI uf: As the Reagan years
roll on and the pressures » FBI, and police to
monitor, smear, and disrupt peace and justice movements as happened in the
1960s, the Establishment's harassment of all of us will doubtless intensify.
To help defend "Mike" now is to defend our future and our fight for a
better society. Defend "Mike"? Defend Yourself!
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was identified as a member of the Comrnu-
mst Workers Party “contained not ane
nod af truth,”
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Preddeat Chara Satterfield called pahicne
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police took hic: teary Minbers and
names of protest oro yo i the paid
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what the dactiniecie was
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arrant charges untrue
included on the inventory, Dale said, “J
dant think anyone can answer that i don't
want to diseuss anything else in regards to
that warrant '
The inventory, signed by Detective John
Tapchiek, states, “| Swear that the follow-
Me iS a true and detailed inventory of all
Property taken by me on the search warrant
filed herewith ”
Neither Dita neg Albany County District
Morey Sol Greenberg would ms wer
QUueStiOns about what documentation may
PUNT ES corroborate the Statements actritia.
ed te Sottertida in the arrest war. twin
men’ were asked if pollee followed ihe
Ben pr aehioe of recording Satterfield 8
or if Satterfield signed an
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affidiaen atps ‘ina te her reasons for s: king
press Protection
Pressed shout the existence of a tape
recerding of the call, Dale replied, i'll find
Out if there was one) after her ¢ Vichel-
son's! tase is taken care of “
Greenberg said he believed that Satter.
field talked to Deputy Police Chief Jon Reid
fo ask for protection, and indicated there
Was ho affidavit of her statement Green-
bers: declined to comment about the exist:
ence of a tape recording.
The warrant was based mostly on infor:
Matern from the unidentified informant,
Sattertield’s <tatement accounted for about
0 percent of the warrant
Also arrested in the raid were Youn, 28, a
Communist Worker Party member,
Charied with possessing marijuana, fire.
Works and a gun, and Aaron Espis of
Semervidie, Mass, , charged with possessing
fireworks and Marijuana,
The warrant neted that another Commu-
mst Worker Party member, John Spear-
Man Was arrested the evening before the
had asd charged with unlawful Possegsion
of a gun and passexsion of stolen property.
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October 20, #1
Albany £ ‘ent. Press
Angry Local CAA Activist Speaks Out
by Lisa Mirubelia
’ Neacly a mouth after her arrest
on the nrorning of the South Africa-
Eastern Kugby Union mgby game,
Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA)
activist Vira Michelson is still
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“ft consider (the arrest) a frame-
ur of the Coalition aad myself,”
‘she said in a recent interview,
‘ Michelson
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| ahgry and very upset that “police -
can take whatever they want in a
: search.” According to. Michelson,
“The police clearly acted in an il- |
fashion and considcred ©
legal
themscives above the law.”’
Michelson explained sie: felt,
“Anytime people rally in a racial
feel .
threatened and try to ‘weaken any’
struggle the authorities
strong Organization of the people,”
‘She feels the police as well as other
auinorities and the media, were guil-
ty of violence-baiting the September >
22 Rally Against Apartheid before -
it was held, “The CAA was on the
romp trying to answer to
aca of violence that were un-
rans Micheison suid,
a
Michelson is scheduled to appear”.
in court on October 29 for a Sup . ’
pression Hearing, where Thayer
sail she will attempt to “quash the —
search warrant,”
The Alvatiy CAA has set up ae
Defense Fund for Michelson.
Michelson was chara with
possession of marijuana and
firecrackers, A controversy ‘per-
vades not only the search warrant
that led to her arrest but also the
- police handling of the matter,
Michelson has been active in the -
Albany community for some 12 to_
i$ years. Among the issues she has
worked on are welfare righis and
anti-dvaft, anti-war,
alsis been involved in organizations
~ Such as youth groups, an anti-Klan
. fetwork and her own labor union. .
Throughout her career as an ac-
livist, Michelson said, she has seen
“racism and classism as primary
contradictions’ in’ the: United
Siates."* She feels that until recently
racism has
issue, “*This is the first time in a
long time that people of different
+. political perspectives have come
together to organize against
racism,"! Michelson said,
One of Michelson's concerns, at
- this poimt is the continuance of a
strong force against racem in
Albany, and around the world. She
said she sees the CAA as “‘a strony,
- multi-racial organization that learn-
_ ed to work together very quickly in
and U.S. -
hands off Iran campaiyns. She has
been a background ~
a very positive way, and will con-
_ tinue to struggle against racism.”
Micheison feels that the fact that
the rugby game was played shows — ‘
how important it is for the govern-_
ment 10 protect U.S, financial in-
terests in South Africa. She said,
“they would protect the South
African racist at all costs (to protect
financial interests).""
| Michelson’s aitorney Anita—
Thayer is now questioning the
validity of the search warrant,
which Michelson called “a total
police department fantasy,”” Two
of the sources quoted in the search
warramt have stated that the infor-
mation in the warrant pertaining to
them is false, Other information is
aitribuied to a confidential infor-
mant who, Thayer noted, may not
have had first hand information. .
Thayer is also planning to file a
complaint with the Albany police
about the way the arrest was hanudl-
ed. At the time of the arrest, police
confiscated from Michelson's
apartment two persona! phone
books, a recent. phane bill, com-
munity address lists and a list of
members of the CAA,
Captain John Dale, spokesperson —
for the Albany police, sald that
* Ke
’ ?
"4
Activist Vere Michelion
"] consider the arrest a frame-up”
some of the items seized by police
. were not incladed in the sworn in-
ventory filed with the search wer-
rant, He had no further comment
on the search warrant,
Michelson said that she was not
allowed to make a phore call until
*
after her arraignment, seven hours
after her arrest. And she said she
wat bekd without bail for 48 hours
for less then misdeicancr charges.
She fects both of these are in vivia-
‘thon of her civil rights.
Michelson's reaction to the way
she fécis the police treated her was
in some ways positive, “It just
makes you sironger, and clarifies
things for you politically,’ she
remarked of the incident.
However, she said she is very
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A University employee charged
yesterday that police in Albany, N.Y.,
prevented him from attending a
demonstration last Tuesday against the
controversial South African rugby team,
the Springboks, because he had helped
organize the protes
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AARON A, ESTIS °80
Crimson/Hisham Youssef
Estis Case
Lawyers for a University
ied tiene aecenliiusiilone
ter Terms
Aaron A. Estis ‘80, a com puter
programmer in the registrar’s office and a
Black Students Association activist as an
undergraduate, said he and three other
demonstration organizers were arrested
and held without bail hours before the
demonstration for “political” reasons.
The four protest leaders were charged
by Albany police with possession of
marijuana and possession of
firecrackers—both misdemeanors under
New York law. A police spokesman
yesterday denied Estis’ allegations.
Estis remained in jail six days until his
attorney convinced a local judge Monday
to set bail at $250, which Estis promptly
paid. The other three leaders-—two of
whom were arrested with Estis in an
Albany apartment at 3:30 a.m. the day of
the ‘demonstration—have also been
released. t
Charging that local police and Federal
Bureau of Investigation officials im-
prisoned the four organizers to insure that
the protest would be “peaceful,” Estis said
that the police “denied us of our rights of
freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful
assembly,”
emplovee
arrested two weeks ago shortly before the
i start of an anti-apartheid demonstration
. P al he had helped organize agreed yesterday to
\ adjourn preliminary hearings until
“ % tomorrow.
The two-day delay will allow district
programmer in the registrar's
e
‘| attorneys in Albany, N.Y., to investigate
whether Aaron A. Estis "80. a computer
office. was
aware of the presence of marijuana and
fireworks in an apartment he was sleeping
in when he was arrested September 22. He
was charged with possessing
items. violations carrying
sentences of 15 days.
those two
maximum
Estis has charged thai police arrested
him at 3:30 a.m. solely to prevent him
from attending a demonstration he had
helped organize against an appearance of
the South African rugby
Springboks, that afternoon,
team, the
John Dorfman, the district attorney who
is prosecuting Estis, said last night that if
his investigation today reveals
found the drugs and fireworks
that police
in “a place
where the average person woukin’t find
them,"' Estis’ case might be dismissed.
But if police say the items were in “plain
view"’ during the arrest, Estis could be
found guilty under New York statutes that
require defendants to “know of and
possess"’ such items, Dorfman said.
Estis, who returned to Cambridge last
night. said police have shown him the
recovered marijuana and fireworks and
have indicated they found it “in closed
containers,"" which he said proves he had
not seen the items in the apartment.
“adjournment in contem
dismissal’ ruling.
platied of.
Estis. who had charged last week that
police confiscated his lists
of people
sympathetic to the demonstration, said
some of his
Albany officers have returned
pi
will
Tad meet M.W,
Pat tfam,
6 Divinity Ave, Room 304.
If he is acquitted of the marijuana and
fireworks charges at an October 6 hearing,
Estis said he will “definitely” sue the
police on motions of false arrest and false
imprisonment.
Estis said police found marijuana and
eight firecrackers in the apartment, which
belonged to a co-organizer, but he said
that the items did not belong to him. Estis
added that he believes the police planned
the early-morning raid to prevent the
leaders from attending the S p.m.
demonstration.
Captain John Dale, a spokesman for the
Albany police, said yesterday that Estis
“may have been just a victim by being in
the apartment” at the time of the raid, but
he denied Estis’ charges that the
organizers were “preventatively detained."
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“We don’t detain anyone—he was |
arrested and charged,” Dale said. He said
police were led to the apartment because
another occupant had been arrested with a
.38 caliber revolver the night before and
that everyone in the apartment during the
raid was routinely charged with the alleged
violation.
Detective John Tanchak, one of “ten or
so” officers whom Estis said “busted down
the door” to the apartment, said yesterday
that “I don’t recall” the Estis case, He
declined to comment further,
Early estimates that the anti- Springbok
demonstration would draw 10,000 to
15,000 protesters “really frightened"
police, Estis said. Newspaper stories prior
to the demonstration had reported that
members of the Communist Workers
Party (CWP) would attend.
The four leaders who were arrested “all
tended to be radical types” and “ac-
tivists,”” Estis said, adding that one of the
organizers arrested with him works for the
CWP. The police “were scared of what
could happen if you have radical
leadership at an action that brings
together a lot of people who are mad about ,
a particular thing,” Estis said.
Inclement weather and rumors that the
Springboks would not compete in Albany
against a United States all-star squad
reduced protest attendance to
about 2,000, Estis said,
Estis also charged the police with taking
keys, notes, phone lists, and papers
relating to the demonstration from the
apartment after the raid, saying he
suspects thé documents are under scrutiny
now “in Washington D.C., or New York
or somewhere,”
Dale denied the charge, saying there
was “apparently a burglary” several days
after the raid. —~P.A.E.
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SPRINGBOKS HOUNDE
By WILLIAM I. ROBINSON
The Springboks brought a
message home ‘last week when they
returned to South Africa: most of the U.S.
people do not want anything to do with
apartheid. The same message rang clear
in Washington.
The 3-gaime tour by the Springboks,
rugby team, .
ignited an unprecedented groundswell of -
anti-apartheid sentiment in this country, |
aimed principally at the Reagen admin-
istration’s pro apartheid Southern Afri- >
South Africa's national
ca policy.
The pressure of the protests also
contributed to the public eruption of
apparently long-standing tensions within
the Eastern Rugby Union (ERU) admini- -
stration over its handling of the tour and
new charges that it accepted South
African money in connection with the
tour.
The Springboks were forced to play
their final game in complete secrecy Sept.
25 on a farmer's abandoned polo-field in
Glenville, N.Y. ERU president and tour
organizer fom Seliridge admitted lying to
the press about the date ‘‘for security
reasons.’’ But he did not explain why he
failed to tell other high level ERU
officials, pro-tour rugby fans who flew in
from the West Coast for the match, and
the J-member South African press
contingent, who all missed the game.
Although the racist team was met by
protesters at literally every place it
showed its face in this country, the Stop
Apartheid Rugby Your (SART) coalition
chose not to have a presence at the JFK
airport in New York City when the team
departed Sept. 28 because of the tense
atmosphere at the airport.
“They departed unc'er the protection of
at least 150 riot-clad American police-
men, but in the absence of the American
people who choose te isolate them now
that they are leaving,’ SART spokesman
Richard Lapchick told the Guardian,
“H is no small irony that American
policemen were used and
Aeneas
clear .
taxpayer .
“vicits> apron tO protect the representa-
tives of the most repressive police state in
the world teday."’
As the team departed, a Springboks
manager described the players as ‘‘fed
up’’ with protesters and ready to go
home. One South African correspondent
called the tour “the most humiliating tour
in the history of South African sport.”’
Opposition to the tour brought together
& broad range of civil rights, religious,
sports and left forces in the SART
coalition. Games scheduled for New York
City; Rochester, N.¥., and Chicago were
all blocked. The only game not played in
secrecy was met in Albany, N.Y. by a
protest of 3000 people.
Just before the last game was played in
Glenville, a bomb ripped through the
headquarters of the Evansville Rugby
Club in Indiana, causing at feast $50,000
in damage. fhe rugby club had earlier
voted to play the Springboks in a game
that failed (o materialize after sponta.
neous local protests developed. The
incident followed by four days the
bombing of the ERU headquarters in
Schenectady, N.Y.
In Racine, Wis., where the Springboks
EM OUT OF
— played their first game at a city facility
after secretly slipping out of Chicago at
Javn to avoid protesters, some 400
cuiraged focal residents called a town
meeting last week (o protest the match.
They are demanding that the local club be
bauned from ever playmg in the city
again.
Yensions are high within the ERU,
meanwhile, following the revelation that .
ed a
350.000 ‘‘gift’’ from the South African
EPU' president Selfridge
Rueby Board wiihout informing other
union officials. This latest “‘gift’’ brings
to $75,000 the total known payoff from
South Africa to the rugby union, The ERU
first invited the Springboks last Decem-
ber after accepting a $25,000 donation
from a well-known white South African
conduit of secret government funds.
_ David Chambers, president of the
national umbrella U.S.A. Rugby Pootball
Union, has issued public criticisms of
Setiridge’s handling of the tour, both in
regard io the secret Glenville, N.Y.,
game, and the $50,000 ‘‘gift.”’ Of the
“gift,” an embarrassed Chambers said
that “he did not know about it and our
intention is to pay it back.”’
The anti-tour campaign fused together
anti-apartheid coalitions in a number of
cities, which are now planning for more
long-term solidarity work with the
liberation struggles of South Africa and
Namibia, In Albany, for instance, the
Capital District Committee Against Ap-
artheid, which united virtually every
progressive organization in the region, is
scheduling further planning meetings.
From the beginning SART has been
consistently violence-baited and red-
baited, while every effort was made by
the state to defuse protests, In one
incident, four people active in organizing
for the Albany demonstration were
arrested the night before the match.
Three of those arrests came at 3:30 am
when a score of police burst into the
Albany apartment of Vera Michaelson
with pistols drawn and shotguns pointed
Bein
at the terrified occupants.
All four were held without bail for 7?
hours and denied their constitutional
Tights. Michaelson and another face
trumped-up “possession of fireworks’
charges for 8 Vourth-of-July-type fire-
_ erackets the police dug out of her closet
while ransacking the apartment.
While the other two were charged with
iflegal possession of a weapon, SART .
believes the arrests were an act of
itical repression by the state aimed at —
ntimidating demonstration organizers,
“At a time when the proponents of the
Springboks team are crying so loudly
about ‘First Amendmeni rights,’ we find
it extremely hypocritical that the four
_activists should be held in what amounts
o preventive detention,”” SART spokes-
man Ron Ashford told the Guardian.
In another incident, protesters who
believed the Springboks to be leaving
from New York on the night of Sept. 26
clashed with police at JFK airport. SART,
which had committed itse!! to peaceful
and nonvivleai protest, did not sponsor or
_ participate in the action, in which some
25 people were injured. At the same time,
SART spokesman Ron Ashford put the
incident in context when he told the
Guardian, ‘‘Wherever these representa-
tives of apartheid have gone, they have
brought with them the climate of violence
that permeates their own country,”
Summing up the SART organizing,
Lapchick said: ‘‘Our campaign to stop the
apartheid rugby tour has been a-
tremendous success. After chasing the
Springboks and their U.S. sponsors from
city to city, we forced the frightened and
embarrassed ERU underground, expos-
ing their corruption and internal divi-
sions."’
“The anti-apartheid message was
spread to millions of Americans. The fact
that tens of thousands of people were
ready to protest wherever they played is
testimony to the American people's
rejection of the Keagan administration's
reactionary Southern Africa policy."'
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Por Immediate Release, ‘Por Further Information,
October 7, 1981
Contact: Willian Robinson
(212)962-1210 - Days
(212) 220-4182 - Evenings
Statement By William Robinson on the Albany Police Dapartment
September 21 Application for a Search Warrent Por the Apartment
of Vera Michaelson
The text of the Albany Police Department a
warrent filed on Monday, Septenber 21 for the
Michaelson came to my athantis
have learned that the Albany P
allegations about me a: aonta
one shred of truth..
The warrent application st
p
pplication for a search
apartment of Vera
1 today. It was truely shocking to
Oolice Department would make such
ined in the warrent that entail not
-" The text also g2es on to stat
terfield called the Albany police
"indicated" that myself and
another had disrupted Protest planiing meetings and had <hraatenea
the life of Ms. Satterfield.
The facts are, despite this very libelous report, that I did
not accompany Mr. Spearman to Albany but came fromm N,Y, on my own
on the evening of Sunday, September 29. I mat Mr. Spearinan for the
first time on September 2]. I am not now nor have I ever been a
CWP party member. And ior only was I not armed (I never held a gun
in my life), but I did not engage or intend to engage in any dis-~
Yuptions of the ragby match or violence against the Albany police,
much less even idscuss or coisidar such actions. And the national
Stop Apartheid Rugby Tour (SART) coalition, which 1 represented in
Albany, has been consistentc in its policy of stricktly peaceful
and nonviolent protest. As for Ms. Satterfield, she has dascribed
the baseless allegations attributed to her in the warrent a3 "an
absolute lie, "
The question raised now i
why such blatant fabricatio
Dapartment? Despite its con
m regard to the warrent application is:
AS on the part of the Albany Police
sistent commitment to peaceful and
nonviolent protest, SART was continuously violence-baitead by the
Eastern Rugby Union, mayors of various Northeastern Cities, federal
agencies, Governor Carey, and also the Albany’ Police Denvartmnent.
One can only conclude that the Albany Police Departmant was so
committed to sabotaging the organizing for the protests against the
racist Springsox« team and neutralizing the organizers that they
had *o resort to vicious lies and givil rights violations against
protest organizers.
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Anti-apartheid activists
framed up in Albany
By Michael Kozak
ALBANY — Four radical activists
are fighting frame-up police charges
that grew out of a protest here against
the presence of South Africa’s rugby
- team in the United States.
On the eve of the national anti-apar-
theid demonstration held in Albany
September 22, police arrested Vera Mi-
chelson of Albany, Aaron Estis of Mas-
sachusetts, Michael Young of New York
City, and John Spearman of Kansas.
Michelson and Estis were charged
with possession of fireworks and mari-
juana. Spearman and Young were ar-
raigned on a weapons charge.
Cops entered Michelson’s apartment,
kept her on the floor with a sawed-off
shotgun to her head, took a mailing list
of the Coalition Against Apartheid
(CAA), and left the door unlocked when
they left with the arrested activists.
The arrests were part of a well-orches-
trated campaign of violence-baiting and
intimidation by New York Governor
Hugh Carey and other state officials to
deflect attention from the hated, racist
South African regime. They hoped in-
stead to turn people against the anti-
apartheid movement and scare poten-
tial protesters away from Albany.
During the demonstration, cops and
sheriffs deputies, equipped with new
helmets and extra-long clubs, marched
in military formation around the protes-
ters. They paraded between picket cap-
tains and marchers, as if hoping to pro-
voke an incident. Some demonstrators
were stopped by cops and asked their
names and where they were from.
The violence-baiting campaign, wide-
ly publicized in the media in the area,
started with Governor Carey’s state-
ment that the state police said members
of both the Ku Klux Klan and the Com-
munist Workers Party (CWP) were com-
ing to Albany.
The media quickly raised images of
fear and violence, portraying Albany as
ae al
a potential Greensboro, North Carolina
(where the Klan murdered five CWP
members in 1979). TV coverage focused
on things like emergency units being set
up in area hospitals to handle victims of
violence.
The day of the demonstration, there
was widespread coverage of the arrests,
focusing on Young and Spearman’s
CWP membership and a bomb explosion
at the Eastern Rugby Union offices in
Schenectady. For all their sources and
informants, police still claim to have no
leads on the bombing.
The basis for the search warrant un-
der which Michelson, Estis, and Young
were arrested is alleged to be an un-
named informant who claimed armed
protesters were coming to Albany. Aliso,
the police claimed they received a phone
call from a Coalition Against Apartheid
spokesperson, in which the latter
claimed members of the coalition were
planning disruption activities. Use of
unnamed, faceless informants has been
a favorite police tactic to substantiate
otherwise meritless allegations.
The Albany-based coalition, which or-
ganized the September 22 protest, an-
nounced at a news conference that the
coalition deplores the victimization and
has set up a defense fund. A defense
committee has been formed in Albany to
publicize the case, gather endorsements
from area ofganizations, and raise funds
for legal expenses.
For more information contact: CAA
Legal Defense Fund, P.O. Box 3002,
Pine Hills Station, Albany, N.Y. 12203.
New York, N.Y. 10014
GAZETTE PHONE 374-414]
Kunstler Takes
‘Albany 9 Case
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ing the eg DOKS visit,
By PHIL BLANCHARD y Hewes ew York City men, Mi-
- Gazette Reporter chael Fitzpatrick, 31: Shaue
hearer, 21; Kenneth Williams,
and Frank Trowbridge, 21,
were arrested in the parking lot
of a fast-food restaurant near
Bleecker Stadium as they
changed their clothes during a
downpour. The four face weap-
ons charges. Police said they
had tear gas, clubs, hunting
knives and metal pipes when ar-
rested.
The ninth referred to
in the coalition’s name is Boji
ordan, a native South African
who was in town to drum up
Support for the anti-apartheid
cause. He was arrested the
weekend before the game at the
Albany bus terminal on a disor-
derly conduct charge, but re-
ceived an adjournment in
contemplation of dismissal in
ips J Police Court. Jordan
had claimed he was being
harassed by youths in the bus
Station.
Bernard Bryan, who is the at-
torney of record for Young, said
yesterday he was unaware of
the coalition's formation. He
said he hadn't yet discussed his
client's case with Kunstler,
whose office announced last
week that it was taking on the
cases of Young, Spearman, and
the four men arrested at the
Burger King.
Anita Thayer, the attorney
for Michaelson, said she was un-
aware of the new coalition’s
lans. Her client, along with
Stis, is scheduled to appear
next in Police Court next Tues-
day for a Suppression hearing,
at which evidence taken from
her apartment the morning of «
Sept. 22 will be challenged,
ALBANY - William
Kunstler, the lawyer who built a
reputation on his defense of left-
wing causes, is scheduled to ap-
~~ an Albany today on joerg
of nine persons arrested during |.
the September visit of the Sou
African Springboks rugby
team.
oo he om
which announced erg
ty
offices of the Communist Work-
ers Party, gets its name from
the number of persons arrested
on a variet charges before
and during the Springboks’ Sept.
22 appearance at Bleecker Sta-
um.
di
Two local attorneys repre-
senting two of the defendants
said yesterday they were un-
aware of the coalition’s forma-
tion and did not know what
Kunstler might have to say
today.
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It had been reviously an-
nounced that Kunstler’s firm
would represent Michael
Young, 28, of Brooklyn; and
John Spearman, 31, of
Lawrence, Kan. The men are
| charged with unlawful
sion of a firearm, the most seri-
ous charges lodged against any
of those arrested on pringbok-
related charges.
Spearman was arrested the
evening before the § ay, ond
ery lice said, on the bany
te University campus across
rasningion Avenue from the
which the South Afri-
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iliary of the Fuller Road Fire
will hold its annual
dinner for 25-year members at 6
tonight at the fire house on Cen-
tral Avenue. June Hines heads
the next morning, police
raided the Centra] Avenue
seersenent of Vera Michaelson,
» and arrested Young on the
weapons charge. He allegedly
had a “speed . gun
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State University of New York at Albany
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Search Warrant Challenged
by Lisa Mirabella
A controversy has arisen concer-
ning the validity of the search war-
rant that allowed Albany police to
raid the apartment of Althany Coali-
tion Against Apartheid (CAA) ac-
tivist Vera Michelson on the morn-
ing of the South Africa-ERU rugby”
game,
Two of the sources quoted in the
“search Warrant have publicly stated
that the information attributed to
them is fake. Other information
/¢ was credited to a confidential infor-
thant. Michelson’s attorney, Anita
Thayer, noted that the search war-
rant docs not say if the information
is first hand or not, :
Michelson and two others were
arrested following the raid at 3 a.m.
on September 22. Michelson was
charged with possession of mari-
juana and firecrackers. She was
held without bail until Friday,
September 25, eee
Thayer plans to make pre-trial mo-.
gions. stating there was insufficient
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mformation in the search warrant,
and that some of the information in
the search warrant was perjured.
Clara Satterfield, President of
the Albany NAACP and a leader of
the Albany Coalition Against Apar-
theid said. last week that the state-
mem atiributed to her in the search
warram is an “absolute lic.’’ The
warrant claimed she phoned Aibany
potice on the night before the rugby
game- because she felt her fife had
been” threateried by Communist
Workers Party (CWP) members,
Michael Young and William Robin.
son, who were working with CAA.
Satterfield said she called the
police to alert them to possible
violence at the Rally, but not
because she felt her life was
threatened.
Robinson said he is not a member
of the CWP, and never carried a
handgun or threatened to be
violent.
Thayer said she hopes to get an
affidavit from Satterficid to use in
her defense of Vera Michelson.
Al the time of Michelson’s arrest,
police confiscated two personal
phone books, a recent telephone
bill, community mailing lists, and a
list of members of the CAA.
Last week, Captain John Dale,.
spokesperson for the Albany police,
admitied some of the items seived
were not included in the ewérn in-
ventory filed with the search war-
ramt after ii. had been executed.
Dale could not be reached this week
for further comment on the search
warrant.
Other members of the Coalition
arrested with Michelson are
Michacl Young, a leader of the
CWP from Brooklyn, and Aaron
Espis from Massachusetts. Both
were charged with possession of
marijuana and firecrackers. Young
also faves the felony charge of
possession of a handgun,
John Spearman of New York Ci-
ty’ Was -arresied on Manday
September 21, on the SUNY
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CAA Activist Vera Michetson *
Her attorney plans to dispute the warrant ata pre-irial hearing
Albany campus for possession of an
unauthorized handgun, Charges
against him for possession of a
stolen car were dropped when il was
learned that the varbelonged to
Young.
Spearman will be represented by
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William Kunstler, a leading vivil
rights lawyer. Kunstler is known for
his defense in the Chicago Seven
case of 1970. Also aiding Spear-
man's defense will be Vernon
Mason, a leader of the National
Conference of Black Lawyers.
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Rugby protest figure challenges search warrant
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By Nancy Connell Bu
Stal? Writer
A civil rights and labor activist
before the South African Springbok
played in’ Albany last month entered a challenge in
Albany Police Court Tuesday to the search warrant
' used to raid her apartment.
The papers, filed on behalf of defendant Vera
“Michelson, include affidavits from persons who
helped organize the protest against the controversial
game. Protesters organized against the game be-
cause of the South African government's policy of
ty hl
apartheid, or strict racial segregation.
But notably absent among the court papers was
any statement from Clara Satterfield, of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People. The search warrant used in the raid states
Satterfield told police the night before the game that
she feared violence against herself from certain
members of the protest movement.
When the contents of the warrant became public,
Satterfield denied she approached police for protec-
tion from protesters, saying she called police for
a against those on the other side of the rugby
ssue.
Satterfield said Tuesday she was “investigating
legal action on that (the warrant) myself. | really
don’t have anything to say about it.”
In the papers, Albany attorney Anita Thayer asked
for a supression of the search warrant and items
taken in the search, which included fireworks and
small amounts of marijuana, as well as'40 rounds of
ammunition and a speed loader for a .38 caliber
handgun.
The fireworks and marijuana are evidence for the
charges against Michelson of possession of fireworks
and possession of marijuana.
“If the search is no good, my client can’t be held,”
Thayer said to explain the motions.
Police Court Justice Thomas W. Keegan scheduled
'@ suppression hearing for Oct. 29 to give the Albany
County District Attorney's office time to respend to
Thayer's motions.
The motions also request the identity of the
informant who allegedly gave police evidence
leading to the search of Michelson’s 400 Central Ave.
apartment, and ask for access to tape recordings
which may exist of telephone calis between Satter-
field and the Albany police.
Finally, the papers maintain that the search
warrant is invalid because: “perjured statements
cannot establish probable cause.” In explanation, the
papers state that Police Detective John Tanchak
Swore to the contents of the warrant, but that
Statements in the warrant attributed to Satterfield
were incorrect.
The papers include an affidavit from Peter
Thierjung, identified as a 28-year-old machine
operator from Schenectady, who states that he was in
the same room with Satterfield when she called
police the night before the game.
“Although | cannot remember every simple detail,
the College
I am certain that Satterfield .. . did not talk about
any threats on her life during this phone call,”
Theirjung states, terming the information his “best
recollection” rather than a verbatim recall of a
conversation.
a member of the Communist
arrested in the raid and charged with criminal
possession of a weapon on the basis of iterns found in
the apartment. A third defendant, Aaron Estes, was
All three cases are still pending.
The papers maintain that certain items taken from
Michelson's apartment, and later returned, were not
included on the sworn statement filed by police
cataloging what was netted in the search.
An affidavit by Frank T. Fitzgerald, a professor at
of St. Rose, states that keys, telephone
books, a telephone bill and news clippings were taken
from Michelson's apartment and not returned to her.
Other items, including a clipboard with names of
persons protesting the rugby game and various
committee assignments and meetings, news clip-
pings and various other papers were returned on Oct.
1, the affidayit states. However, none of the items
named in’ Fitzgerald's affidavit were included on
Tanchak's sworn Sfatement listing the items taken,
the affidavit states.
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Papers filed Tuesday by attorney
Anita Thayer contend much of the
information police submitted to obtain
a search
perjurious, overly broad and insuffi-
' Client to get a warrant. te
Keegan set Oct. 29 for a preliminary
hearing on the validity of the search
warrant, is
. Police entered Ms. Michelson’s
. apartment at 400 Central Ave., Albany,
at 3 am. Sept. 22 — the day South
_ Africa's rugby team played in Albany
. >» based on a search warrant Keegan
had signed the previous Gay. The
warrant staied Ms. Michelson’s apart-
ment was being used as a base for
activities to disrupt the rugby game.
The raid resulted in the arrest of Ms.
Michelson and Aaron Espis, 22, of
Somerville, Mass., on charges of pos-
Session of marijuana and fireworks.
At the request of Espis’ attcrney,
Lewis Oliver, Keegan set Nov. 19 for a
jury trial on the charges against Espis.
[Also arrested in the raid was Michael
-¥bung. 28, a Communist Party worker
“from New York City who was in Albany
2 marghy @ demonstration against the
: African Springboks rugby game.
3 Police confiscated .38-caliber arnmu-
Uition they said they found: amid
. Young's possessions in Ms. Michelson's
apartment. Young was also charged
“With ion of a handgun police
-Said they discovered in his car.
*s Ms. Thayer asked in her brief to have
Albany police identify the unnamed
Lz)
Clera Satterfield, president of the
Albany branch of the National Associa-
_ tion for the Advancement of Colored
* People. 4
In obtaining the search warrant,
. Albany police claimed ~. based on
‘information obtained from an “undis-
Co ws
warrant was inaccurate, ~
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before og
,Propert
disrupt the rugby
Spearman was arrested the night
raid and charged with
of a handgun and stolen
ing.
The warrant also claimed Ms. Satter-
field asked police for protection from
Young and William Robinson, a. 24
year-old Brooklyn man who was active
in the anti-apartheid Protest during the
Springbok stay in Albany.
Ms. Satterfield has
nied making the
amatory ef my character,
ude they were stated with the
purpose of discouraging me from fur.
ther political activity and speech.”
Police claimed Robi;
a member of the Co
& past acquaintance
Robinson denied al! the
Thierjung,
Coalition
claims he heard the
Springboks. .
Ms. Thayer argued in her court
Papers the Search warrant did not not
Ms. Thayer said police took newspa-
per articles, a list of names of coalition
members and their committee assign.
tents and plans for the anti-apartheid
demonstrat:on heid at Swinburne Park
during the Springbok rug me
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AN EVENING IN DEFENSE OF
THE BILL OF RIGHTS
THE FIRST GREAT CIVIL
LIBERTIES BATTLE OF THE 1980's
Socialists vs. FBI, CIA & INS
Thabo Ntweng National Committee, Socialist. Workers Party.
Ve ra Michelson Coalition Against Apartheid activist framed up
for her participation in Springbok Tour protests.
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Ode | Winf ield Local representative: National Black Independent
Political Party
‘Org. listed for id. onty
AND OTHERS...
Sunday ~ November 15 ~ 7:00 pm
Channing Hall - 405 Washington ave.
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co-sponsored by: Social Resposibilities Committee, 1st Unitarian Society of Albany
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Preventive Dentention New Weapon
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Mike Young Speaks at a SART demonstration,
antnony LaRusso
The Springboks are long gone now
t the tremors that were pulsed from
tneir arrival are not. The three games
_ played here by what is considered the
, best rugby team in the world haven't
Stirred any movement to make rugby
the next replacement for baseball, A
movement that they did stir up was an
' anti-apartheid steamroller with the
broadest cross sections of American
people to ever be involved in the same
activity. That is precisely why it
doesn’t surprise me in the least that the
bourgeoisie, through its courts, police
and politicians, tried everything in its
power to dismantle this movement.
To understand the hows and whys a
little better, I spoke with Mike Young.
Mike is a co-convenor of the leading
organization that was formed to stop
the South African Springboks, Stop
» the Apartheid Rugby Tour (SART).
He is also a member of the Communist
Workers Party, not one of the U.S.
government's favorite organizations.
Mike told me what happened leading
up to his and four other organizers’ ar-
rest the morning of the Albany
demonstration. ew
When the police started openly
* watching and tailing Mike back in Ju-
ly, it wasn’t really that surprising. At
one point, a man identifying himself as
Detective Gauglitz, in charge of in-
telligence in New York City, ap-
proached Mike. He wanted to be kept
informed on everything he did, every
move he made. For your own protec-
tion, you see. The same cop paid a visit
to Dr. Richard Lapchick, another of
_ SART’s co-convenors, to advise him
the department was getting death
threats on his life. No mention of pro-
tection, just someone wants to kill you.
Well, this is nothing new for Dr, Lap-
chick. Since his active role in the pro-
test of South Africans playing in the
. 1978 Davis Cup, he has received
numerous threats, had his home
broken into, had his car tampered
with, his family harassed, and never
have the police been able to do
anything but tell him what he already
knows.
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Obviously this wasn't zoing to
discoufage Richard or Mil In fact,
these planned roadblocks _ the op-
position let you know you are being ef-
fective. But the more effective the
coalition was, the more they tried to
stop it. :
Reflecting on the growth of the
movement in Albany, Mike Young
said, ‘‘As the thing started building, |
spoke at the coalition meeting; I was
becoming somewhat of a celebrity. As
I became a celebrity the police started :
trailing me. It became obvious they
wanted me out. The State started put-
ting pressure on the local Organizers to
get me out, Basically what the State
was trying to do was coopt it, control it
any way they could.’’
The violence-baiting began. First the
FBI weht to the Mayor’s. office (in
Albany) and told them that the Ku
Klux Klan was planning a visit to the
demo and a confrontation between the |
Klan and CWP was fearful. Albany
will be round two of Greensboro, they
claimed. Pressure was put on locals to
dump Mike as one of the co-emcees
when ae CWP-Klan fabrication
became headline news in the Albany
papers. (Later, the- Klan admittedlye
knew nothing about it.)
All week long leading up to the
September 22 demo, the groundwork
was being laid to legitimize the arrests
that were reminiscent in style of the
Black Panther raids of over a decade °
ago. The issue was quickly changed °
ftom anti-apartheid to violence and
anti-communism, Most people in-
volved had the foresight to see through
the baloney and keep the attack focus-
ed on apartheid. The movement mush-
roomed, Everyone was going —
students, activists, ministers, concern- -
ed residents —- everyone who hated op-
pression.
Then on September 18, the Thursday
before the scheduled match in Albany,
Governor Carey cancelled it. Citing the
phoney CWP-Klan confrontation as
too dangerous, he attempted to kill two
birds with one stone. Turn the city
against the Party and SART whose
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growing $u was not looked upon
too favorably by the bourgeoisie and
stall the mass movement that was
growing. like Jack’s beanstalk; Of -
course, after all the out-of-town buses
were cancelled, getting the game back —
On was @ snap. There was no worry
about ticket holders, there were only a’
handful anyway. And when the thing
went to court, there wasn't too much
doubt on the ruling.
The only problem the State had now
was getting rid of the key leadership of °
the protesters. Even though. the
numbers would be cut significantly,
with the right people in charge, the
thing could, still be overwhelmingly
successful, ”
moving the car he was driving, four
cops converged on him and got out
with pistols pointing at him. The
charge was driving a stolen car. The car
belonged to his friend Mike Young.
After illegally searching and tearing
apart the car, John was subsequently
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First John Spearman. While he was
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For this Mike Young was advised by | ,
the pe no bail until: October 6, two | .
s later. He was put in semié ! ,
isolation, allowed out of his cell one
hour a day. On the same block was a’
man waiting to serve 25 years to life for *
a murder conviction. And the lifer was
told watch out, they: are dangerous! |
This is for a man arrested for the first |
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cops entered the | Not only did they arrest us, they
: made damn sure we had no contact —
, - with the outside.’
: pistols drawn, arrested the four Oc- | i
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Well, bail didn’t take two weeks. It
as multi-national corporation ties, I,
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poplin seem to fascinate Reagan and |
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power. Finally, they j cee.
from being out
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baiting. Then they
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organizers are awaiting trial at this
time. If you wish to express your sup-
‘port a tay way, you may do | $0
through this column.
COALITION TO DEFEND ALBANY 9
BOX 21, IKAN ENT., 115 ESSEX ST., N.Y. N.Y. 10002 TELEPHONE: 732-4392
Dear Friends,
The late summer tour of the Springboks - the national] rugby team from South
Africa - was a catastrophe for South Africa and its backers in the United: States.
Of the three originally scheduled matches - in New York City, Chicago, and Albany,
N.Y. = only the Albany match was actually played, and at that match anti-apartheid
eventually played #n the United States, the fact that they were both shrouded in
secrecy, and that there were virtually no spectators at either, speaks to the
humiliating defeat that South Africa suffered on this tour.
The Albany match was significant for another reason also: in the few days
leading up to the match a total of 9 anti-apartheid demonstrators were arrested
on various trumped up charges. On the weekend before the match, Bojie Jordan of
But the most serious arrests occurred on the evening and morning before the
match. Four people, including Mike Young, a co-convener of New York SART (Stop
the Apartheid Rugby Tour Coalition), were jailed literally hours before the game
d were refused bail until three days later. John Spearman, one of the 4, was
rested for possession of a stolen car - which belonged to Mike Young! The arrests
of the other 3 - Vera Michaelson, Aaron Estis, and Mike Young - parallel
fireerackers (8 of them), while Mike Young and John Spearman had additional weapons
charges put on them.
These arrests - and the fact that the 4 people were held without bail for
threee days, effectively denying them the right to organize against the Springboks
= are very serious. They are very political arrests, and the fact that Mike Young
was “banned" from Albany by the judge makes them even more so. It is fronic that
while Mayor Corning of Alban » the U.S. State Department and all of the other
supporters of apartheid were crying so loudly for "free speech" and "st amendment
rights" that people organizing against apartheid were having their rights so
Systematically stripped away.
tour that these arrests were aimed at all of us Opposed to apartheid. That is why
we see the defense of this case as part of the offense against apartheid and the
renewed U.S.-South African alliance.
These cases will cost a great deal in legal fees and will necessitate broad
eblicity on what took place in Albany. We are appealing to you to help out with
+ defense in any way that you can,
ME tr Hi, th
we ne at issue, hia tea
marj-;: at the requedt of Albar County“: ‘suppress fon hearing is conducted
Juana and ion of fireworks, both _ Assistant District Atiorney stir Dereon ra to determine what evi-.:4
wrap or big pplenioar see nd Ul has ving Cet: man because there were cases pending “dence éan’ ed against a defendant, i
te Soka Nagy gamees Cos. ithe, court said, 4 a ae EY i pnt ne Ue deter ay 2 betore arte! Sept. 21 and
The appellate eburt said Clyne is ..:Two others, Michael Young: 99, of Oliver argued 2 22;
_ Without jurisdiction to preside at the. New. ork City and John Spea
hearing to be held on motions by Vera* 7
ee ae
pt. rugby match Which
31 ont hae eee judge was protested b
ra. of Kansas were arrested and charged — ieee ~
Michelson, 36, of 499 tral” Ave... with felony possession
Albany, and Aaron Estis; 1, OF Somes tert yon hogs
: y
: F minor :<. South . Africa’
violations.’ He said count
es racial segregation, }
sions and poets for police court deck: i" Fg, Bom tne
DE In the oe County judge cannot
; Pitt in the position of reversing another ¢
Albany Y.. Assistant. Distr
Case Moyes 0.
Conary i oe
ais [ cenit A reasion,
TOUT rere Wenaeinng tes tes eagles of era Mi-
Coty cout ete 3 rugby cases” = EE
; tm’'s Albany appearance, was >
spoidipasrnik ha ry Lp I ny ha he dod ‘istaan St af dated ‘and County C Cals! Judes ‘dete 3: 3 day by Police Court Justice.
| ‘The cases of three se ted’. New York City, and a hearing on that pate ~ eee is Sa ae weer ear
veh gaye — Af rugby team Charge is pending in Albany Cray & police court judge as well as ¢ Michaelsor, 34, of Central Av-
i, ben oo y were transferred from Court...) . County court judge _ next Tues- . ' © |@nue and Estis, 22, of Somer-
ay Cele Toney oa mate Nee ok Gone teri Go ration fo eure Mere 51 0A Riles paceuanees
‘district attorney's office. ',, Espis had been scheduled Tuesday in combining the two hearings is ‘un | Saothd whee Albany relies raid
’ fed Michaelson’s apartment
poking Michael Young, 28, of
Brooklyn, on a weapons
charge
Young was indicted along.
with John Spearman, 31, of.
4 Lawrence, Kan. cay felony fire.
arms charge su suppression
hearing in
Vera Michaelson, 36, @ prérhinent Albany Police Court. 4 <> usual,” but added, “it is a icalasa
Albany ivi rights activist; Aaron A.A However, Assistant District Attorney “time and money saver.” : $i, a
tf Espis, 22, of Somerville, Mass.; reg Thomas Regen at a ene Lewis Oliver, attorney for Espls, and
Michael R. Young, 2%, of Brooklyn, ‘es n that “an identical “Anita Thagte, attorney for Michaelson,
‘were arrested on the eve of the Sept ." been scheduled: for ‘ opposed the consolidation of the hear. :
a game at Bleecker comes ak Joie pm y in Albany County Court in." ings, saying their clients were chatged
‘, Albany and charged with criminal. -the cases of Young and Spearman. - with “lesser ‘accented sor sag fy]
~ possession of fireworks afd criminal | He said that, since the sanie witness- and Young.) ° co @5 sh
“i ae Bad ? Tues-
7 Cee of marijuana, both misde- beh be Involved in both hearings Tt would be an in tice to my cljent’ > day can cur t
mea \ . ense to & &ssociate him with those renee Ay : Police esterda
.. Young was charged with third-degree. / suppress: & same me evidence pe: “mp4 court, ” Oliver said. thy ma . i torneys ote ‘Micka
eit eG Sag Bas ail il ready att their. suppression
I] he hearing, in which they were to
ghehiene ge the ee that led
r clients’
John Dorfman, an jg
district attorney, argued that
since the facts of the Michael-
i} 80n-Estis hearing are identical
_| to those of the scheduled Young-
Spearman hearing, the cases
should be combined .in county
‘| court for the fer the rpose of deter-
waaay er Seewerrent
‘was yeild
ae id yaaa Court
oan has agreed to
ings, at which
he paar oi as an acting police
- | court justice insofar as Michael-:
"| Son's and Estis’ sd
Michaelson and Estis go
county court at 2 p.m. Mex
Tuesday. i ea
oa
The state Supreme Court Appellate hs
Division may rule today on whether two AS Ne ers ae
Persons charged with violations and Arguing for both Michelson and Estis.
two felony suspects, all arrested before Monday, Oliver declared Clyne has no
anti-Springboks demonstrations in Al- jurisdiction of 4 petty offense; once it wy + 4y
bany last September, may be given a has gone beyond the arraignment... r ™ |
| ‘The court heard arguments Monday Katzer argued that the U.S. Supréme
on the application of Vera Michelson.of ~ Court has delineated between a sup-
Albany and Aaron Estis of Somerville, ~ pression hearing’and a trig). Since the.
Mass., for an order banning the joint hearing does not lead to «a. final
B ’ ,
with Albany County Judge John J. court judge may Preside in the capacity ¢
Clyne presiding. _ Of acting police justice, .. asses
Michelson and Estis are accused of . Oliver also protested that the twosin-
possessing fireworks and marijuana, ‘one pri would deprive Michelson
Michael Young and John Spearman Jr., 4nd Estis of appeal. He pointed out that,
both of New York City, face the more any appeal from Clyne's decision as
Serious charge of criminal possession of acting police justice would have to go to
&@ weapon, third degree . county court, where Clyne presides in
Poli ane ‘ his regular Capacity. arte
ce court jurisdiction over Katzer suggested that a Su .
arene below the elony level ae Court justice could be appointed to sit
court. But Police Court Judge Thomas poten rh judge should suth a
Keegan has Branted a motion of the §* pauucher thee ar sae
district attorney to allow the consolidat. Spearman was arrested:the night of
pl proceeding, now scheduled for Sept. 21 near a motel where the South
District Attorney f '
the unusual! merger, which would place the whic ee toes conn cee
7 Clyne in the position of serving both as Young. search warrant, under chai. i a oh te a
me i Judge of his own court and as acting lenge by the defense, was used by police was dR)
Police Court justice, was deemed practi- who searched Michelson’s apartment ° rg NALS
Cal as a Saving in time and money. He on Se “-
pt. 22 and allegedly found ammu-
sei Out that the same issue exists in nition for the gun in Young's belongings |
a ) &
A AAS PEs ey Police said the Search also yielded |
’ . Michelson's lawyer, Anita Thayer, fireworks and marijuana, which Mich-
and Estis’ attorney, Lewis B. Oliver, elson and Estis are accused of possegs-.
have opposed the joint hearing as ig. Ss . bee e ‘
ae . * oat | 4
F th iy ‘ $: % Hom
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next week to Dec. 21, .~ preeees Springboks rugby game in Albany’s .
: ae 4
, in 'a related development, atterney Bleecker Stadium..They were charged
Mark .Gombiner, ‘an associate ‘of de. © “With felony ‘weapon posseasion.
fense lawyer William Kunstler, ap-*~
peared before » Judge John J. caliber revolver in a
Clyne to record officially that his firm, Young, which Spearman: had been
Kunstler & Mason, has been retained by driving near the motel where the South
the ‘two defendants facing felony African team, was quartered. Young, °
: H ‘ ‘ ,
“interests might exist but still wished to activist Vera "Michelson +on-<Central
reg st » Avenue, Albany..,Police said ammuni-
oCiyne allowed withdrawal from the on for ithe weapon awas found in
case by Albany attorney Bernard _Noung's luggage there! a. °4
investigatin
rocked
offices*in Sche ¥ and
several adjacent offices
Soe R RES,
Same day the controver-
boks, a South African
Albany ‘police ‘said sy found a ~ ie
be practical since the same witnesses
‘will testify. ae ” 4 hat erie +
~ - ; : ; » r \ om ba a
But Michelson -and } disagree. *
\ Appellate Division. court will hear,
