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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD
8 Chenery St., S.F., CA 94131
You have a legal right to have
No. 17 / Feb. 1974
_ INSIDE: Seven Resign, Three De-
-serters Demand Amnesty, A
-WAFTs Story, Cockroaches on
the USS Howard Gilmore, Sit-
_down Strike on the USS Duluth,
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re ti t o POSE i: Crmnnem
HA ANDREA STERNBERG RESIGNS,
FIGHTS FOR, AND WINS HONORABLE DISCHARGE
Larry Johnson, Andrea Sternberg, Katherine Olson,
Thomas A. Steinhelper, Sean McEnerney, Larry Weldon, and
Rich Holder are all enlisted men and women who have re-
signed from the military in the last seven months. Briefly, here
are the reasons each of them stated for quitting:
Larry Johnson, Army, W. Germany, quit in June because of
the U.S. governmentTs support for Portugal in its genocidal war
against the people of Mozambique. He also quit, he said, to
protest the racism of the Army and the government,
Andrea Sternberg, Navy, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia,
quit in August because of bad working conditions at the Naval
Hospital, the use of the military for big business against
working people at home and around the world, and discrim-
ination against women in the military.
Katherine Olson, Navy, Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes,
Illinois, resigned in September because of unfair labor prac-
tices by the military, lack of civil rights, lack of opportunities
for women, and degradation of enlisted people by officers.
Thomas Steinhelper, Army, W. Germany, quit in October
because he could no longer work for an organization run by
crook Nixon, or that supports with men and supplies Port-
ugalTs war against Angola, Mozambique, or Guinea-Bissau.
Sean McEnerney, USS Debeola, Norfolk, Virginia, resigned in
November because of the NavyTs repression of ideas and abil-
ities. He also said that enlisted people are for all practical
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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE ONE
WAR in the MIDDLE EAST
Background
The October War in the Middle East has been charac-
terized in the press in unreal terms. The Israelis are
ococky.� The Arabs are obloodthirsty� and o~terrorists.�T
Henry Kissinger is just trying to keep the two from
fighting. The Palestinians are just a bunch of fanatics
who gun people down at random and blow up airplanes.
In order to cut through some of these lies and half-
truths, weTve assembled a brief historical sketch of the
conflict in the Middle East.
The land we usually call Israel used to be ruled by the
Ottoman Turkish Empire. This empire was broken up by
the British empire in World War I. Part of BritainTs booty
for winning was the Middle East. Within their territory
was Palestine. Although Palestine was governed by
Britain, two-thirds of the people who lived there were
Arab people. The remaining third were immigrants, some
of those Jews.
During this time, an idea was brewing among Euro-
pean Jews " leave Europe and its prejudices behind and
all Jews of all resettle in one
country. This was Zionism. Some considered moving to
encourage nations to
Africa, others the Middle East. But Britain was having
trouble keeping control of its Middle East colonies. They
needed help holding down the lid on growing Arab
pressure for independence. So Britain and its European
allies encouraged the Zionist movement to send their
people to Palestine as settlers. In exchange for policing
the colony there, the Jews were promised that eventual-
ly theyTd have Palestine as their homeland.
The migration of European Jews continued, backed
by financial investment, armed force, and a lot of propa-
ganda. A United Nations resolution in 1948 established
that there would be two states where there was once
BritainTs Palestine: one for Jews, the other for Pales-
tinians. The British withdrew, leaving the Palestinians
and Israelis to slug it out. In this lop-sided battle, nearly
one million Palestinians were forced from their homes,
and marched into orefugee campsT along IsraelTs
borders.
After bitter fighting, the war ended in Israeli victory
over out-gunned and out-numbered Palestinian forces.
Israel expanded its territory by almost one-third, while
Jordan, Egypt and Syria took other parts of Palestine
even in defeat. The Palestinian people, evicted by the
Israelis and spurned by their Arab oneighbors,� were left
homeless exiles, robbed of their right to a nation.
By 1956, the Egyptian people had also turned against
Britain. Egypt had nationalized the Suez Canal, had
begun trading cotton with the Soviet Union, and had
helped the Algerian people drive the French colonialists
from their country. In a last-ditch effort to regain a
foothold in the Middle East, and recapture the Suez
Canal, Britain, aided by France and Israel, launched a
war against Egypt in late October 1956. The U.S. and
the Soviet Union, anxious to keep their relationships in
the Middle East intact, squelched what might have led to
a broader war.
In 1967, Israel and Egypt-Syria went to war again. As
a result, Israel gained control over 50,000 square miles
of land in SyriaTs Golan Heights and EgyptTs Sinai Pen-
insula. A country which displaced a million Palestinians
in 1948, a country not even legally recognized by many
~countries, had doubled its size in less than 20 years.
For six years, Israel continued to hold Syrian and
Egyptian territory, resettled the area with Israeli citi-
zens, and pumped $1.2 million worth of oil a month
from the captured territory. So on October 6, 1973,
Egypt and Syria rushed into the occupied territory,
attempting to win back their land.
Recent negotiations led to a settlement that found
Israel returning to its pre-1967 borders in exchange for
acceptance and recognition as a legitimate nation. Israel
continues to drive the Palestinian people off their land,
but still wants to be recognized by its neighbors as a
legitimate government. But the Palestinian people want
to stay and oestablish a state in which all the people, all
the races, all the religions, can live in peace and friend-
ship and justice,T according to Yasser Arafat, spokesman
of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. There canTt
be any real peace as long as these needs conflict so
strongly.
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their help in assembling this information"Bulkhbead
staff]
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id-East Alert!
When fighting broke out in early October between
Israeli and Egyptian-Syrian forces, the Pentagon put all
U.S. troops on alert status. This status, called Defense
Command III, primed 50 ships, 4,000 Marines, and tens
of thousands of sailors for American intervention in the
' Middle East.
In response to this situation, the Norfolk Defense
Committee and the Ft. Bragg GI Union started a
campaign against U.S. participation in the war. The
campaign included passing around leaflets and pamphlets
which explained the history of the area, and the
background details on U.S. economic involvement in the
Middle East. But the main emphasis of their campaign
was circulating a petition to Senator Fullbright calling
for Congress to pass a law against ~the use of U.S. forces
in the current Mid-East hostilities.�
The Middle East petition gave enlisted people an
organized way to express their opinions as a group. Since
few enlisted people were anxious to jump into the
middle of a war in the Middle East, the petition quickly
became popular. On October 13, twenty people from
four GI movement groups went through three shopping
centers in Onslow County near Camp Lejeune. Response
to their petitioning was so good that county sheriff
deputies thought it best to put a damper on things. They
arrested three active duty enlisted people: Scott Miller
from Ft. Bragg, and Mark Ratliff and Randy Thoman
from Little Creek Amphib Base.
The deputies turned the three over to Jacksonville MP
Hq, who then turned them over to the Provost MarshallTs
Office at Camp Lejeune. When the PMO couldnTt find
any regs he could bust the three on, he let them go.
There is no civilian or military law which forbids active
duty people from petitioning as long as theyTre off-base,
off-duty, and out of uniform.
RESISTANCE FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN
Petitions were returned from Norfolk, San Diego,
Great. Lakes, Ft. Hood, and_ especially " the
Mediterranean. This response shows a strong popular
opposition to U.S. involvement in the Middle East war.
Following are some examples:
@ Sailors at Oceana Naval Air Station in Norfolk,
Virginia, informed the Norfolk GI Defense
Committee that Sidewinder missiles were loaded
on Israeli 747 cargo aircraft twice in October. As
the missiles were loaded, sailors were ordered to
paint over the Israeli insigniaT on the 747s so
identification could not be made.
On November 2, active duty personnel from the
three Defense Committees, the GI Union, and
civilian hospital and dockworkers from Baltimore,
presented the petitions with 3,000 names to Sen.
FullbrightTs office.
@ From the aircraft
carrier F.D. Roosevelt, on
oITm definitely going to get people to sign this petition. |'m not about to see another
a sailor on the USS Harlan County
Scott Miller, Mark Ratliff, and Randy Thoman nabbed by Camp
Lejeune MPs for exercising their right to petition,
floating alert in the Mediterranean, a sailor wrote
to the Defense CommitteeTs newspaper, Grapes of
Wrath, oI do not believe in getting us involved in a
religious money war. Our ship is in the process of
turning over ten A-4 Skyhawks to the Israeli
government. There is a feeling on this ship that
cannot be denied. The people are unaware of what
is happening here. We are just pawns in the hands
of the Navy and the U.S. forces in general... . |
believe the Arabs have been mistreated by the
Israelis too long. There is no reason to send
American-made bombs, planes, goods, and men to
destroy a people who are fighting for their rights.�T
From the USS Austin, enlisted men wrote Grapes
of Wrath, ~We are a group of Black, White, Brown,
and Yellow sailors and marines. We feel that the
U.S. should stay out of the Middle East. The USS
Austin and the rest of the ships here in Crete (an
island in Greece) are on Condition III. We are only
500 miles from the fighting. We got your petition,
but it was too small. ... We are going to support
you all we can.�
From the USS Harlan County, a brother wrote,
oRight now we are on stand-by, and ITm sure we
donTt want to be. We havenTt had any liberty in
about 35 days, and the days get longer. We are
hiding like rats in a trap in some bay in Greece,
waiting on some word if we go to war or not. ITm
definitely going to get people to sign this petition,
ITm not about to see another Vietnam happen.�
Diplomatic niceties like the present negotiations can
only delay a future war. Instead of waiting for the battle
to begin, join the movement now to stop in advance any
U.S. involvement in future Mid-East wars. Write The
Bulkbead at 98 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA
94131. On the East Coast, write the Defense Committee,
P.O. Box 1492, Norfolk, VA 23501. Their phone
number is (804) 625-3004. (Source: Grapes of Wrath,
Wildcat)
UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE TWO
[KAOS IN KOREA]
Dear Bulkhead / The new Chief of Staff
for the 2nd Inf. Div., Paul F. Braim, has
placed two signs in his office which are
indicative of his feeble-mindedness. One
large one says, oOur business is fighting.�
The other states. Platform:
Domestic Plank You donTt work, you
donTt eat. Foreign Plank
hated for free.
oBraimTs
We can be
| had to tie back the handles on
the urinals in the bathroom, only one per
because none of these fine
loffices in the BOQ]
would flush after taking a leak.
Also these fine,
in conscientiousness
building,
leaders of men
The
stench was incredible.
short-haired studies
broke down
some doors in a drunken
brawl this weekend and punched holes in
the sheet rock in the hallways.
Currently the commanders are handing
out $400 fines for pass violations. There
are several instances of troops getting
fined for staying overnight in the village
with their American wives. They were
caught the gate the next
morning. Meanwhile, there is no pass
coming in
policy at: 1 Corps or 8th Army, our next
two higher headquarters. ThatTs it for
now. ITm out of paper.
C.M.
Korea
[FROM THE CREW OF THE
HOWARD W. GILMORE IN THE MED}
Dear Bulkhead / I was paying special
attention to your paper, so that | have
come to the decision that | owe it to my
fellow heads to ask your help in our
problems while at this duty station. | am
trying to get a discharge within the
month. But | want to help my friends in
any way | can before I am gone. Our
shipboard conditions are hell.right now;
the boilers blow up, so that we have to
shower for almost a week with cold
water. Our ship, the Howard W. Gilmore
AS-"16 is a mess. We have horrible
working conditions, and the ship is a
scrap pile. There are so many holes below
the water line that the bilge pumps have
to be ran at least every four hours. And as
it stands now, the crew can hardly eat
because of the cockroach problem. The
cockroaches seem to carry stuff off while
you are gone to get a glass of milk or
whatever.
The command has ruled that Levis are
not to be worn on the beach. We have
Farah Jeans close by. But 90 percent of
the crew will not wear them because of
the article in your June-July issue which
had an artcle about oDonTt Buy Farah
Pants.�T | made sure that the word got
around to everybody.
Another problem on our ship is that
22 people got busted in the month of
August [1973] in this command. They
were fined heavily and restricted to the
limits of the ship. I the
people. 17 of the 22 people busted were
was one of
convicted on hearsay and circumstantial
While in the
from the Constitution and the
Bill of Rights? I should think not! | think
the cases should be reviewed by someone
who is ignorant of the case(s). Also we
evidence.
exempt
Navy are we
are in what is called isolated duty. There
is not a damn thing to do except get high
all the time. And the command wonders
why we have such a high rate of drug and
alcohol problems. If they would just open
their eyes to what is around them they
would find the reason.
Here we are. We have a chance to see
Europe and they wonTt help us do it. We
have been to only three liberty ports in
the past six months. This is bullshit. My
advice to anyone who reads your paper
who has not been in the ohurry up and
get it done so you can start it all over
againT DonTt
come in because it is just starting your
problems a hell of a lot more. Love.
Peace. Dope.
world of the military is:
The Crew of the Howard W. Gilmore
Mediterranean Sea
LETTERS
[USS DUBUQUE]
Dear Bulkhead / | was reading about the
USS Duluth and I know how it is on that
ship. WESPAC
August 16, 1973,
When we
1972
they were our relief in the Philippines. |
were on
November 10,
had to go over to their ship to give them
parts for their boiler. It was a fucked-up
ship but everybody, especially the snipes,
were trying to get their shit together. ITm
glad I got kicked out cause | couldnTt
handle it no more.
M.E.
USS Dubuque
[EXTENDED IN OKINAWA]
Dear Bulkhead / Thanks for sending your
paper to STRATCOM _ (Strategic
Communications) Okinawa. I have been
held captive here for nearly 18 months,
the normal tour of duty, and am a victim
of involuntary extension. HereTs how
they tell me it works. After completing a
tour of 18 months, | have only 4 months
until | ETS. This makes it costly and
worthless for them to. send me backls.it
legal for them to hold me here?
I thought one could be extended
only in time of war or special necessity. |
am a mail clerk and am not needed.
Please enlighten me if you know how to
get me back to the world and reality!
I enjoyed and learned from your story
on Article 15s cause I have been up
against that wall. Unfortunately a few
months ago | was told that in making an
appeal, higher punishment can_ be
imposed. Therefore I chickened out. It
cost me $50 and 14 days extra duty, and
the written but suspended bust bit. An
Army lawyer said I could get 6 months
hard labor for my o~crime�T [disrespect to
a superior officer] if I lost in a court
martial, Oh well, thanks for the arti@le.
Sp/4 S.
Okinawa
|FROM SAN DIEGO]
[This letter is taken from a San Diego Gl
movement newspaper, Up From the Bot-
tom. Our thanks to them for sharing their
material, and our thanks to the brother
The book he mentions,
Turning the Regs Around, is available for
$1 by writing to P.O. Box 40614, Station
Bulkhead staff]
who wrote it
C, San Francisco, CA
Dear Folks / Thank you very much for
your immediate response and the fantas-
tic publication, Turning the Regs Around.
It was the most interesting and helpful
book ITve read since | joined this damned
dictatorship. ITm enclosing $2 to pay for
the book and the time and trouble it took
to send it to me.
Just for the record, I got completely
out of my bust. I knew everything about
the illegalities of my bust and the brass
knew they couldnTt bullshit me no more.
If I can help it, the brass arenTt going to
bullshit anybody on board the ship any-
more. ITve already started talking to the
crew and some of them are realizing how
much the Navy has brainwashed and bull-
shitted them. DonTt be surprised if more
people from the ship start asking for your
enlisted manTs bible. ITm telling them to
write to you for more information. Hope-
fully, they will be as grateful as myself
and send money for the cause. FTN!
A San Diego Brother
|WHATTS WORSE THAN THAILAND?]
Dear Bulkhead / Since the last time |
wrote you about this fucked up military
of. ours, ITve been.reassigned, ITm now
stationed at Shaw AFB, S.C. instead of
Ubon, Thailand. ItTs even worse here than
in Tailand. The flies [lifers] fuck with us
about twice as much. What else do they
have to do?
Man, even though ITm back in the
states, I still want to distribute The Bulk-
head. ItTs on of the ways I can give my
brothers in the military inspiration to
fight back against this fucking military
society of ours.
Do you realize that even though we
suffer a fuel crisis the lifers are still flying
training missions out the ass. Meanwhile,
Tricky Dick is trying to make us drive 50
mph. This government is really fucked.
Well, guess I'd better split now.
Peace & Love,
S.N.
Shaw AFB, S. Carolina
[SAN DIEGO]
Dear Bulkhead / I have been turned on to
your paper oUp Against the Bulkhead�
by a friend. | think
outstanding. ItTs about time people got
the paper is
the true and honest look at the military.
The military much from the
public itTs sick. | would like to have at
hides so
least 100 free copies of ~Up Against the
Bulkhead� every printing so I can turn
the
People. The time has come.
others on to facts. Power to the
AN T.J.
San Diego
[A MARINE COOK WRITES
FROM THE FLEET]
Dear
Right now | am on float going to Hong
Bulkhead / I am a Marine cook.
Kong. While on board ship a Navy cook
turned me on to the pamphlet oAsk A
Marine.�T The pamphlet deeply moved me
and expressed my feelings exactly.
The Marine Corps has corrupted my
life and tried to turn me against some of
my loved ones. There has been times
when I have been deprived of my mail
because | got my I.D. card taken away.
There has been times when I requested to
make a phone call home and it was
denied. | have been given office hours for
very foolish charges.
I am trying very hard to bring people
who feel the same way | do into ONE.
There might be a chance of changing
things if we would all unite into ONE. We
are being fucked over, and alone there is
very little we can do about it. May peace
be with you.
PFC MSS.
Bit 2/4
|GUAM]
Dear Bulkhead / ITd like to subscribe to
oUp Against the Bulkhead.� In fact, ITd
like to distribute them among my people
on this god-forsaken rock, Guam. I think
your paper is really right on! But not
enough people have seen it. If more
people in the Armed Services thought like
you and | do, we could get some things
changed that really need to be changed,
drastically. The only problem is the
media. They only want to tell one side of
the story, their side! I think youTve got
the right idea and ITd like to participate.
There are two Naval facilities and one
Air Force base (Anderson AFB, oHome
of the Enchanted B-52) and a Naval
magazine, that need to hear our side of
the story. . . . Power to the People!
Guam
DESERTERS
DEMAND AMNESTY
Three Army deserters recently turned themselves in
to dramatize the need for amnesty for war resisters in
this country. In October, Richard Dean Bucklin turned
himself in to military authorities in Denver, Colorado,
after five years in exile in Sweden. In December, Lewis
Simon, who also spent five years in Sweden, and Eddie
LEWIS SIMON
Lew Simon left the Army for political and moral
reasons. He had been against the war when he enlisted,
but figured he could stick it out. A college graduate in
linguistics, Lew was able to get a cushy job translating
Chinese messages for the Army Security Agency. But
boot training had broken his morale. ooThey didnTt try to
UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE THREE
EDDIE MCNALLY
Eddie McNally is another resister whose case has
recently been made public. At the press conference
where he and Lew Simon turned themselves in, Eddie
called himself, ~your typical Brooklyn Irish story.�
Tired of working at oa lot of no-account, low-paying
jobs,T Eddie decided to enlist in the Army. oAt the age
of 17, a great vacuum cleaner passed through my neigh
is ae
was the only thing left. They promised theyTd teach you
borhood and took me and my friends off to war.
a trade, make a man of you.�T His father, at the time, was
a retired moving man. His mother worked in a bar.
The Army taught Eddie how to order repair parts for
rifles and howitzers, not exactly what he had in mind for
a useful trade. Bored and disgusted with doing shit
details in Germany, Eddie accepted the ArmyTs offer of
a $1,000 bonus and Christmas leave, and o~volunteered�T
McNally, who lived underground in the U.S. for four
Pe convince us that the war was worthwhile. We just h: )
years, surrendered together in New York. dsteuecbriakammacvetes
accept the mystique of killing. I couldnTt.�T
At Fort Devens, Colorado, Lew heard a rumor that he
was overheard making ~disloyalT statements, and that
there would be an investigation. That cinched his de-
cision to leave. He took his Christmas leave, boarded a
plane for Sweden, and settled in for a long stay as
another American exile.
LewTs parents tried to talk him out of deserting. Like
Lew, they were against the war, but couldnTt accept his
breaking the law. In time his parents and his entire
family came to accept and support what he did. Abra-
ham Simon, LewTs father, said, oI support my son. He
for Vietnam. He figured that he would ohide out in
Vietnam for a year and take a lot of dope.� Once there,
RICHARD BUCKLIN Eddie saw other Gls abusing Vietnamese civilians, and
~I believe,� said Dick Bucklin, o~that I was correct in
following the demands of my conscience. There will be
no begging involved. All other war resisters and | are
positively right in demanding a universal and uncondi-
tional amnesty from the U.S. government.� He split
from his duty station in Germany on October 4, 1968,
because of the dehumanizing nature of the military and
owhat could only be termed a kind of corruption that
was best personified by the officers creatures that
would bomb anything, kill anybody, follow any order,
and all for money, medals, and to be a winner.T
Dick BucklinTs court-martial board handed him a
BCD and a 15 month sentence in early January.
~At the age of 17, a great vacuum cleaner
passed through my neighborhood and took
me and my friends off to war. ITve been
at war ever since, and now | want to
come home.�T " Eddie McNally
and others like him used the only means at their disposal
to object to a war which was forced upon the American
people. If they can give amnesty to Agnew and the rest,
they can give it to my son.�
quickly grew sick at the ~orank-happy, trigger-happy,
boot-kissing� attitude of some of the other Americans
over there. Eddie split once to Saigon, and again when
he returned to Ft. Leonard Wood. He got caught both
times, and did a total of three months brig time. The
third time he split, it was to be for four years.
With the support of his family and friends, he got an
apartment in Queens, and began taking temporary Jobs.
He later enrolled in State University of New York after
going through a drug rehab program in Nassau County.
For these four years he lived and worked in the general
area of his home neighborhood under his own name, and
kept in frequent contact with his family and friends.
This should have led to an easy bust, since the FBI
checks
routinely a deserterTs neighborhood and ac-
quaintances after heTs gone 30. days. But dozens of
Li people who knew Eddie was AWOL, covered for him
anyway, risking felony arrests themselves for oaiding and
abetting a deserter.�T Evidently, the war wasnTt too pop-
ular in Brooxlyn-Queens,
In the process of getting his psychology degree and
finding work in a drug clinic, Eddie decided to turn
himself in. At his press conference he explained why, oI
donTt feel guilty and I won't accept punishment. But I
can see the ArmyTs problem. It they
give amnesty to
600,000 dudes, whoTs gonna fight the next time they
start some lousy war? But if they do send me to prison,
they canTt touch my mind. I'll tell all the other guys in
the stockade, ~Hey, man, you didnTt do anything wrong.
�
z Associated Press Wirephoto
Army deserters Edward McNally, left, and Lew Simon, tell a news conference why they are surrendering to the
FBI. McNallyTs mother, Claire, is seated at far left, next to McNallyTs fiancee, Robin Hefferin. Seated at right is
Simon~s wife, Monica
The war was wrong.T
(Sources: New York Times, Newsday, Washington
Post, New York Post, Safe Return/FORA)
The majority of the people of America have opposed gainst them for desertion or resisting the draft, must be
the Vietnam war for a long time. Many young men and
women
given amnesty. Unconditionally. Universally.
in order to follow their conscience " were
forced to defy the government by removing themselves
from the grip of the machine that was waging that illegal
and unpopular war. Others who resisted the oppression
WHAT DOES AMNESTY MEAN TO RESISTERS?
But just how would this amnesty come down? People
who are in exile or living underground in the U.S. would
be able to return to their homes. People waiting to be
prosecuted for their resistance would have charges
dropped. People doing time in prisons for their refusal to
be drafted or some other act of resistance would be
freed. People with criminal records would get a clean
slate. Deserters would be allowed to return without
prosecution, and granted a single-grade discharge. And
all discharges from the military would be converted to a
single-type of discharge that makes no distinction
between so-called honorable service and so-called less-
and exploitation within the military, were shackled for
life with less-than-honorable discharges or felony re-
cords. These people " draft evaders, deserters, political
prisoners those with bad-paper discharges, and families
of these resisters " have organized into groups and are
campaigning to make their positions and demands
known to the American people.
These groups include Vietnam Veterans Against the
War / Winter Soldier Organization, Safe Return / Fami-
lies of Resisters for Amnesty, AMEX Magazine in Can-
ada, and Campaign For Amnesty, among others. These
groups agree that a universal, unconditional amnesty for
all war resisters is the only just demand. But just what is
a universal, unconditional amnesty?
RIGHTING
THE
WRONGS
than-honorable service.
VICTIMS/HEROES
In one sense, all resisters are victims of the war as
surely as those who returned from Vietnam maimed or
dead. In another sense they are the real patriots of our
time. It is going to be up to all of us to force the
government to treat these people with respect and fair-
ness. This can only be done by organizing. Here are the
addresses of some. groups now working to secure a
AMNESTY MEANS NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED
First of all, amnesty is not pardon, ~~Pardon� implies
abolition of the sentence while recognizing that a crime
did occur. Crimes have not been committed by war
resisters. ~ooAmnestyTT means abolition of the crime. Am-
nesty is restoring people back to a position within so-
ciety where they will not have the stigma of bad dis-
charges or felony records.
universal, unconditional amnesty:
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827 W. Newport
Chicago, ILL 60657
AMEX"CANADA
PO Box 187, Stn. D
Toronto 165, Ontario
Secondly, unconditional amnesty means that resisters
won't be subjected to some form of o~alternative service�T
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officials and civilian ~o~leadersTT range from doing time in
to pick and choose who they want to turn loose and
who they want to burn or leave in exile. Would the
person who was outspoken about the war and amnesty
have a chance of getting amnesty under those circum-
stances? Not likely. Everyone who has been given a
less-than-honorable discharge, has spent time in prison
for resisting the war, or has a warrant outstanding a-
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the Peace Corps to doing time in the military or jail.
Some amnesty! Requiring deserters, for example, to do
alternative service would mean that they would have to
desert their own consciences before their desertion of
the military could be o~forgiven� by the government.
Thirdly, universal amnesty means that the amnesty
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UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE FOUR
The Military:
In the past, Gls felt that the only real option they had to putting up
with conditions within the American war machine was to ~~vote with
desertion. Desertion still remains the most widely used
means of resistance, but here we have a small group of individuals who
have decided not to split, but to stay and confront the Pentagon with
its crimes. They have also decided not to use the accepted channels
within the military to get a discharge. They havenTt applied for con-
scientious objector discharges or tried to hustle medical discharges to
get themselves out. They have said by their actions that they recognize
their feetT
[continued from page 1]
purposes no more than slaves who lack legal rights, and
have to be forced to work through the use of fear
tactics.
Larry Weldon, Navy, USS Savannah, Norfolk, Virginia,
resigned in December because enlisted people lack legal
rights, suffer racial discrimination, and are subjected to
unfair labor practices.
Rich Holder, Rich Holder, Navy, Norfolk, Virginia,
resigned in December in protest of militaryTs inhumane
treatment of EMs, unfair judicial system, racism, sexism,
and bad working conditions.
LARRY
JOHNSON
On June 18-19, 1973, PFC-resigned Larry Johnson
went before a Special Court-Martial at Kaiserslautern,
West Germany. He was charged with seven court-martial
offenses because he refused to wear a uniform, work,
salute, or keep restriction. All these ~~crimesTT stemmed
from LarryTs resignation from the Army. As Larry ex-
plained it at his trial, o~I resigned from the Army to make
people better aware of what Portugal, the U.S. Army,
and NATO are doing in Mozambique, and to withdraw
my service from aiding and abetting war crimes.�T
WHY WAS LARRY JOHNSON
CONCERNED WITH MOZAMBIQUE?
Larry Johnson grew up in Harlem. Strung out on
heroin between the ages of 12 and 18, he was turned on
to the study of his Black culture and history by the same
man who helped him kick the habit. When he was 21,
Larry was a husband and a father. Money problems
pushed him to reluctantly enlist. Even while in the
Army, he used every chance to educate himself about his
identity as a Black man. After taking courses in Black
literature and African history, he came across the Feb-
ruary 1973 issue of Ebony magazine. Inside was an
article called ~ooThe Quiet War in Mozambique,� which
was about the Mozambiquean peopleTs fight for freedom
from the rule of Portugal.
Although many European countries still control
African nations by manipulating their economies, Portu-
gal is the last European country which maintains direct
control of other countriesT governments. But for at least
ten years now, people in all three of PortugalTs colonies
have been fighting back in an organized way. The Portu-
guese have been trying to put down these liberation
fighters in the same way that the Americans tried to put
down the Vietnamese liberation movement. But Portugal
" the poorest country in all of Europe " couldnTt afford
the high costs involved in fighting this type of anti-
guerrilla war. So it turned to the U.S. " the biggest
mother country of them all " for support, and got it to
the max. Without the U.S., Portugal couldnTt go on
fighting. This single fact convinced Larry to resign from
the Army.
A COURT"MARTIAL VICTORY
Although LarryTs court-martial board convicted him,
they handed down a token sentence: one month at hard
labor, a recommendation for a general discharge, and a
$150 fine. Later, the conviction itself was overturned
because of the judgeTs bias against Larry. Larry and his
defense committee considered their defense a victory.
The jurors were clearly won over to LarryTs side, but felt
they had to come back with a guilty verdict for his
technical violations of the UCM].
One key to Brother JohnsonTs successful defense was
his popular support. The military tried to hold the trial
out of the public eye. But since the case was given wide
publicity in leaflets and newspapers, dozens of sup-
porters turned up for the court-martial. When they were
turned away at the door by MPs, they seized the time.
They held their own.meeting directly downstairs of the
court-martial, discussed what was going on, and made
plans to get out the news to others.
The other key to his deferise was the testimony of
Father Cesar Bertulli, an Italian missionary who lived in
that the military isnTt run in their interests or those of the American
Sternberg.
Wilabi taadbsinaee
Larry Johnson (right), his lawyer Howard DeNike (left), and
missionary priest, Father Cesar Bertulli (center), confer during
trial recess.
Mozambique for 25 years until he was kicked out of the
country by the Portuguese for exposing Portuguese
atrocities. At first, the trial judge, Maj. Herbert Green,
refused to let Father Bertulli speak. But after constant
pushing by defense lawyer Howard DeNike of the
Lawyers Military Defense Committee, Father Bertulli
was accepted as a character witness.
Father Bertulli testified that the Ebony article which
originally moved Larry Johnson was o~too mild� to de-
scribe the genocide taking place. He admitted as evi-
dence photographs taken by himself and other mis-
sionaries, of the tortures and massacres committed by
the Portuguese.
When Larry Johnson finally got to take the stand, he
explained that he had seen Father BertulliTs photos. oWe
as Americans are aiding and abetting this,�T Johnson said.
Major Green freaked, and interrupted Johnson. oTell
your client to behave!TT But Johnson continued, oI was
basically looking at myself " people of my complection
struggling for their liberation. I saw how sick the condi-
tions were.�T
WIRETAP SCANDAL
The trial also enmeshed the Army in a Watergate-type
scandal when a sympathetic EM in Military Intelligence
discovered that the Army had tapped the phones of
LarryTs lawyers and supporters. The German government
expressed its so-called o~surpriseT�T and o~indignation,�T and
the Army had itself a full-blown international incident.
LarryTs lawyer demanded that the Army release the
transcripts of the monitored conversations. Rather than
deal with these demands, the Army avoided the issue by
reversing the conviction on the basis of Judge GreenTs
refusal to disqualify himself at the beginning of the trial
for prejudice.
people, and that they arenTt going to participate any longer. They donTt
ask tor a discharge. They demand it as a right.
So far, only the first two, Larry Johnson and Andrea Sternberg, have
been discharged. The rest are still battling the military for their dis-
charges. Each story is interesting and important. The five who remain
still need all the support we can give them. But because the Bulkhead is
limited in space, and because we lack much necessary information on
the five people still in, weTll only report on Larry Johnson and Andrea
o~T resigned from the
Army to make people
better aware of what
Portugal, the U.S. Army,
and NATO are doing
in Mozambique, and to
withdraw my service
from aiding and abetting
war crimes. TT
Portugal in
Airica
The United States and several other NATO countries are
giving massive military support to Portugal in its efforts to
keep control of its African colonies: Angola and Mozam-
bique. The Nixon years have already seen $400 million in
aid to Portugal, and recently the Administration announced
another $436 million to be given in the next five years. In
addition, the U.S. government has been supplying Portugal
with massive quantities of napalm, defoliants, fighter
planes, bombers, and troop transports. Thousands of Por-
tuguese officers are being trained in the U.S. As a guerilla
fighter in the liberated territory of Guinea-Bissau (won
independence from Portugal in September 1973) sums it
up: oNot only do the Americans supply them with
weapons. They tell them what to do with them. Fortunate-
ly, it doesnTt work any better here than it does against our
brothers and sisters in Vietnam.�
oPortuguese� Africa
Guinea- Bissau
UP
If itTs a job.... Why canTt we quit ¢
1, Andrea D. Sternberg, 081-42-3586, submit to the Admiral of the Portsmouth Naval Hospital
the following reasons for my resignation from the United States Navy:
1. Unreasonably long hours with no over-time pay;
2. No equal opportunity for women (limitation of only three wards);
3. Late evening hours in high-risk neighborhood with no provided protections;
4. No night-time differential pay;
5. Extensive socio-economic class distinction between officers and enlisted personnel;
6. Abusive attitude of high pay grade personnel toward low grade personnel;
7. Extremely small percentage of non-white officers;
8. Military attitude of using its personnel for the benefit of big business rather than for our
countryTs protection;
9. Military attitude of using its personnel as strikebreakers and scabs against other working
people (i.e., extensive use of scab lettuce and grapes during the United Farmworkers
boycott);
10. And finally, numerous examples of personal dehumiliation among my enlisted brothers
and sisters.
ANDREA
STERNBERG
On August 29, Hospital Corpswave Andrea Sternberg
was awarded an honorable discharge by the CO of the
Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Virginia. AndreaTs dis-
charge came only hours after sheTd been busted for
unauthorized absence. The NavyTs reversal " from con-
viction to discharge " underlined their fear of AndreaTs
principles and her willingness to fight for them. Andrea
and her defense committee considered this a clear and
total victory.
On August 15 she had notified her CO in person and
by letter that she was resigning her enlistment because of
unfair working conditions for women at the Naval Hos-
pital. (See letter above.) She left the hospital facility
after receiving a written oinvitationTT to return to work
which told her that her absence omay constitute a viola-
tion of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.�T
Nine days later, Andrea returned to the hospital with
her supporters, and spoke with her commander. This
commander promised that the hospital would, as far as
possible, give her the job assignment of her choice and a
recommendation for discharge if she would just go back
to work.
When she returned to work the next day, the hospital
command denied that any of this had been offered, and
instead handed her a chit for AdmiralTs Mast.
For four days Andrea worked hard to give publicity
to her case. She spoke with other corpswaves, and with
the help of her supporters, organized local and national
press conferences. This defense group also circulated a
petition im support of AndreaTs stand. In two days, over
90 active-duty men and women had signed.
With this support behind her, Andrea went to Admi-
ralTs Mast on the 29th, accompanied by five friends. She
was found guilty of unauthorized absence, fined $200,
busted in rank from E-2 to E-1 (suspended), and handed
10 days extra duty.
Hours later she was honorably discharged without
having done any extra duty and after paying only a
$3.33 fine. She retains all veteran benefits.
Andrea was supported throughout her action by the
Defense Committee, an East Coast group of active-duty
enlisted men and women and their families; the Norfolk
Action Research on the Military; the Tidewater Africans,
an organization of Black Gls near Norfolk. Because of
AndreaTs own determined stand, the support of the
above groups, and the extensive coverage of her case by
local and national press, the hospital command was
forced to allow her to resign.
AndreaTs defense committee press release reads:
oThe point now is that this victory should not be seen as
a call for all other enlisted women and men to resign.
from the military, but rather as an important step in the
fight to win better working conditions and a just and
democratic military for all enlisted people.�T
These two battles are over. Andrea and Larry have
won. But the other five are still fighting to get out.
They need our support. The Bulkhead will continue to
report on their cases.
Respectfully,
08 1-42-3586
VIETNAM
Rerun
(Washington, D.C.)
Year, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger told a
television audience that it is ohighly likelyT? that the
In the first week of the New
administration would request congressional approval to
renew the bombing of North Vietnam if they were to
olaunch an all-out offensive of the sort that occurred in
May 1972.� In case you had hoped that you'd never be
sent to Vietnam, weigh those words carefully.
It wasnTt the first time that Schlesinger had made
such a threat. On November 31, he told reporters that
the Administration was studying whether the new war
powers bill would enable the President to resume
bombing without Congressional approval. Schlesinger
said the Nixon Administration was looking for a loophole
in case the north Vietnamese and the Provisional
Revolutionary Government (PRG) launched a new
offensive.
We at the Bulkhead believe the Thieu regime is
planning and carrying out the offensive Schlesinger
keeps talking about. On January 9, President Thieu even
admitted publicly that Saigon planes are systematically
bombing civilian areas. These areas are under the control
of the ~otherT? government in southern Vietnam, the
PRG. For example, between November 7 and December
31, 1973, Saigon aircraft carried out at least seven raids
against the city of Loc Ninh, the administrative center of
the PRG.
BOMBS IN THE 1974 BUDGET
The Pentagon is so sure of a renewed American
involvement in Vietnam thar it has even budgeted $275
million for bombing in Southeast Asia through June
1974. $50 million of that has already been used up in
the pre-August 15, 1973 bombing of Cambodia. But that
~leaves $225 million budgeted for bombing SE Asia in
violation of the Paris Peace Agreement. These facts were
uncovered by Prof. Gabriel Kolko ~in House
Appropriations Committee Hearings on Dept. of Defense
Appropriations for 1974. (Source: Internews)
AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE FIVE
~Why donTt
we just give
them their canal
and let everybody
go home?TT
Today, many Panamanians are demonstrating to pro-
test U.S. control of the Panama Canal, and the presence
of U.S. military bases in their country. The focus for
these demonstrations are talks between the Panamanian
government and the U.S. over renewal of the 1903
treaty which granted the U.S. a 500-square-mile Canal
Zone right smack dab in the middle of their country.
The movement to get the U.S. out is not a new one.
As recently as January 1964, Panamanians demon-
strating for an end to U.S. control of the Canal, broke
through a chain-link fence separating the U.S.-controlled
zone from the rest of Panama. These Panamanians tried
to raise their flag on what they regarded as U.S.-occu-
pied Panama, but were fired on by U.S. troops who
killed 22 and wounded more than 500.
Again today, Panamanian resentment of U.S. control
is so strong that Panama's President, General Omar
Torrijos, said that the coming talks between his govern-
ment and the U.S. are the o~last chance� to negotiate a
peaceful settlement of the conflict over the Canal. If the
talks fail, he emphasized, ~~we have no other resource
left but to fight.�
PanamaTs Foreign Minister Antonio Tack stated, oThe
main aspiration of the Panamanian nation is to have a
Panamanian canal.TT He also said that Panama considers
the massive U.S. military presence in the Canal Zone
illegal, and has called for the elimination of all US.
bases.
The loss of control of the Canal would be a heavy
blow to NixonTs empire. It is perhaps the most strategic
waterway in the entire Western hemisphere. If you want
to get from the Caribbean or the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean, either you go directly through the Panama Canal,
or you take a 4,000 mile detour around the southern tip
of South America. The Canal is important enough to the
U.S. that the Pentagon thought it wise to put 14 military
bases there. Some of those bases are also training centers
where American military experts train soldiers and pol-
ice chiefs for various Latin American dictatorships which
are loyal to the Nixon administration.
If the U.S. wonTt forfeit its control of the Canal or
give up its military bases, and if the Panamanian people
wonTt give up, then somethingTs got to give. Ambassador-
at-large Ellsworth Bunker (ex-U.S. ambassador to the
Thieu regime in Saigon) and Henry Kissinger are trying
to smooth things over. But their manueverings can only
delay whatTs shaping up to be a major clash.
AN EMTS VIEW
Fed Up, a Gl movement newspaper from Fort Lewis
and McChord AFB, Washington, interviewed an un-
named GI recently returned from Panama. His particular
duty was putting down the Panamanian people. oI
mostly guarded docks and ammo dumps with an
unloaded shotgun against the communists. I went
through Jungle Operations Training Center twice. It was
a real farce.... But we saw more hostility from the
people in Santiago [Panama] than from guerillas in the
jungle, or communists. Why donTt we just give them
their canal and let everybody go home?� (Source:
Interrmews and Fed Up)
UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD /
WOMEN
FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE SIX
fy] ls boy
[Tis articie 18 take?)
from KFed-l p, a Gl movement neu spaper
from Fort Lewis and McChord AFB Washington. Our thanks are
due to its staff and the sisterwho wrote the artt le far marking it
available to us all.Bulkhead staff]
a
STRUGGLE:
.
WAF'TS
I AM WOMAN
by Hele
I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore,
And I know too much to go back and pretend.
Cause ITve heard it all before,
And ITve been down there on the floor,
No oneTs ever going to keep me down again.
[CHORUS]
Yes I am wise, but itTs wisdom for
Yes I'll pay the price, but look how much ITve gained.
If I have to I can do anything.
I am strong; I am invincible; I am woman.
You can bend but never break me,
Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal.
And I'll come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer,
Cause youTve deepened the convic
[CHORUS]
Iam woman, watch me grow.
See me standing toe to toe
As | spread my lovinT arms across the land.
But ITm still an embryo
With a long long way to go,
Until I make my brothers understand.
[CHORUS]
Just out of high school with no job, no money, few
friends I could relate to and-a desire to see the world |
joined the WomenTs Air Force. | had heard the whispers
that all women in the military were lesbians, and tho |
could not have admitted it at the time, | yearned to be
with women who felt like me. It seemed to be the thing
to do at the time, so | did it.
Once in the military, I quickly learned that all women
were not lesbians and that those who were did their best
to hide it. The threat of an Undesirable or Dishonorable
Discharge served as a constant reminder of the price one
pays for loving sisters. The mandatory classes held in
Basic Training told us that our functions were to wear
make-up and be pretty, and to get men. Those are the
functions intended by the military to put us into the
stiffest competition with each other. ItTs hard to be
sisters with your rivals.
1 was stationed at Mt. Home AFB, Idaho for the year
[ spent in the service. The ratio of WAF to airmen was
16 to 3,000, when | first arrived. The attitude of Gls
towards women in the military is encouraged by society
and the military to be as negative as possible. The
opinion of most Gls is that WAF are there as
government paid whores. Your job is incidental, your
real purpose is to fulfill their needs: sexual. sadistic,
secretarial. Most jobs held by women in the military
back up that myth 100 per cent. They are usually
secretary shit jobs. The few. women who hold jobs of
importance are merely tokens.
| was told when | enlisted that ITd have my choice of
250 career fields. When the time came for me to choose,
there were 6 slots open: 4 secretarial. 1 in photography
and 1 in illustration Having spent 2 years training as a
commercial artist, | applied for that slot. A week later. |
was notified that I was to become an Administrative
Specialist.
Is time that
It was about th
[ started getting angry,
~
5 4
i -
~
and I spent most of my time in the service yeing a
or depressed. The times | recall bein;
i
service were times when I was stoned o
happ e
7
On payc
; as pies ¢ a nasties ~ 1 on so renarer
vOu can Deheve that 1�,�. mili lep
those two things to pacily people. | was angry for being
treated like a
prostitute when | walked down the street
n Reddy
the pain.
tion in my soul.
and for having to sit at a desk 7 hours a day, my main
responsibility being to make coffee and run errands for
the fat lifer who paraded as my supervisor, while he
made a habit to not even come to the office till 9:30 and
leave early.
Most of all I was angry because the military does all it
can to keep women from relating to each other as sisters.
By glorifying the stereotype of women as housewives.
mothers, and fuckee, and encouraging competition for
men, by pushing birth control pills and = other
contraceptives and by dangling free abortions if you
choose to stay in the service, and by scandalizing people
with rumors of olesbianTT followed by threats of bad
discharges and ruined lives, the military divides women
from the strongest support they can get - each other.
There were other women who felt as I did-that to
have a man was not their only purpose in life-and we
were often seen hanging around, attempting to stave off
boredome and insanity. It soom became obvious that
our friendship was a threat to the male supremacy of the
base. Rumors of our preverted sexuality spread like
wildfire. One woman went to the chaplain, told him she
was a lesbian and had an Honorable Discharge a few days
later. They could not prove that she had had any sexual
relationships during her enlistment and probably
thought it best to get rid of her as soon as possible
before the disease spread. The rest of us were too afraid
of what could happen to come out of the closet"we
were even afraid to talk to each other.
We werenTt afraid to speak out on our rights tho, and
we circulated a petition denouncing the sexism of the
military specifically a of sex education
lectures for WAF where we were told-that our primary
purpose was to Gls that it our
responsibility, not the manTs to be concerned with birth
control. The petition was signed by 30 WAFs of our 100
and sent to Representative Bella Abzug. Copies were
the the WAF Squadron
Commander and the WAF First Sergeant. The biggies
were so freaked out by
and series
fuck and was
sent to Base Commander.
Our action that.I was discharged
a month later and other women were transferred to
other bases. The brass was petrified with fear that
women might stand together for their rights. In order to
maintain security, they got rid of us as-soon as possible.
Women in the military do have some rights. They should
have more. But the only way to get those rights is to
tig ror them. TI In pov Will NOt Just give uD
without a struggle. The struggle will be hard if we join
together. But it will
be impossible if we donTt
o
There are two great national institutions which
simply
cannot tolerate dissension: our armed
forces and our interscholastic sports
Both are of necessity dictatorships.�T
programs
Max Rafferty, former director
of all California public schools
In late December 1973, the National Conference for
Amateur Athletics (NCAA) suspended Bill Robinzine
and Andy Pancratz two starters on IllinoisT DePaul
University basketball team " from competition for half
the 1974 season. The reason for their suspension: play-
ing in a free, no-admission charity benefit for the kids of
Gary, Indiana. Their crime: not getting prior permission
from the NCAA.
What makes the NCAA so hardline is that they face a
growing movement of college athletes who are fighting
to turn business-and-money dominated sports leagues
into something more human. Just in the last two years,
college athletes have demonstrated and organized at
more than 150 college campuses, protesting conditions
ranging from unfair treatment of black athletes to the
war in Vietnam. The NCAA suspended Robinzine and
Pancratz because they are a part of this movement.
Bill Robinzine and Andy Pancratz were invited in
March 1973 to play in a free benefit tournament spon-
sored by the mayor of Gary, Indiana. The purpose of the
tournament was to provide a quality college basketball
game for the kids of Gary. Admission was free.
Robinzine and Pancratz received nothing for playing in
the tournament " no money, no trophies, no expenses.
All they got was the satisfaction of knowing they had
helped out.
WHAT IS THE NCAA SUPPOSED TO DO?
The NCAA, the organization which oregulates� col-
lege sports, suspended the two for half the 1974 season.
Robinzine and Pancratz filed an appeal, and friends,
coaches, and other athletes sent the NCAA letters of
protest. The NCAA denied the appeal and ignored the
letters.
The NCAA had oregulated�T the athletesT movement
oThe real reason for American
sports is to prepare young
men for war.TT " Pres. Dwight
D. Eisenhower
TURNING
THE
UP AGAINST THE BULKHEAD / FEBRUARY 1974 / PAGE SEVEN
BASKETBALL PLAYERS SUSPENDED
FOR PLAYING CHARITY GAME
Bill Robinzine,
DePaul University:
~I was just trying to
help out some kids.
�
WouldnTt you?
Andy Pancratz,
DePaul University:
~They tell us to enjoy
basketball. ItTs
hard with the guys
they have making
the rules now.�
many times before. For example, they also suspended
Sylvester Hodges, one of the countryTs best wrestlers and
a three-year veteran of the Air Force, because he
wouldn't shave his moustache. In another case, the
NCAA suspended Stanley Royster, the all-American
track captain at the University of California, because he
was involved in the black liberation struggle on campus.
Yet the NCAA refuses to regulate colleges which
~~buy�T good athletes with scholarships, fancy cars, and
promises of the easy life. The NCAA doesnTt stop train-
ers from handing out drugs faster than pharmacists. The
NCAA allows coaches from different schools to unite in
schemes to reduce recruitment of black athletes, The
NCAA allows schools to do almost anything to build
strong teams in the big-money sports.
WHERETS THE MONEY IN AMATEUR SPORTS?
But how did amateur athletics become a big-money
game when the NCAA is only open to athletes who play
REGS AROUND is a 120 page book
which covers many of the problems people face while they
are trapped in the military. It is written by Gls and civilians
who've had a lot of practical experience with military injus-
tice. It is written for enlisted people to help them fight back.
(he book also has the experiences of Gls whoTve fought back on ships
and bases, what they learned and what they won or lost. It includes the
entire Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Table of
where to go for support, and where you might find a sympathetic
civilian lawyer. All discharge procedures are also included.
Turning the Regs Around, PO Box 40614, Station C, San Francisco. CA
| Name - Military Gumber
Maximum Punishments from the Manual For Court Martial. It lists I
PRICES:
for free? Who has an interest in making money off
amateur athletics? For starters, the professional sports
clubs do. Colleges are the groomers and trainers for
future professional material. If colleges didnTt prepare
younger. players for a career in pro sports, the
professional clubs would have to. ThatTs why the minor
leagues are dying in baseball, and no minor leagues exist
at all for football or basketball clubs.
But colleges also have a money interest in amateur
athletics. By building a winning athletic team, colleges
also win heavier alumni contributions to the college
bank account. A popular athletic team also encourages
high school graduates to apply to the college. This, too,
means more money in the college bank account.
WHAT ABOUT SPORTS FOR EVERYONE?
Some schools spend as much as $5 million on their
football programs. Some football coaches spend $25,000
a year just on phone calls recruiting athletes. Yet those
same schools refuse to spend a thousand dollars making
athletic facilities available to the majority of people on
campuses or in the community. For example, women
receive an average of less than 1 percent of all collegiate
athletic budgets for their programming. Women sports
simply isnTt good business. Rather than encourage in-
volvement, colleges and the NCAA
business spectaculars.
produce show
Some institutions in this country just canTt tolerate
dissent. As Max Rafferty, former director of all Califor-
nia schools, has pointed out, the armed forces and
intercollegiate sports are, ~~of necessity, dictatorships.�
But as enlisted people challenge the brass, and as athletes
challenge the sports world establishment, the old
institutions get shakier, and the defenders of the old
order get more hardline. Their attempts to hold back these
challenges " like the suspensions of Robinzine and
Pancratz " just make people more angry and unwilling
to accept the old ways. We congratulate these two
brothers for their stand.
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oThen in August we were sent off the coast of Cambodia for ~evacuation purposes.
like to know bow we intended to evacuate with tanks, cannon, and mortars.
thousand Marines!TT
But l~d
along with a couple
FREE DULUTH
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Against the War / Winter Soldier Organi-
zation in Chicago, Illinois. We are repro-
ducing it here in part to help get out news
of the struggle on board the ship, and to
get out information about the militaryTs
preparations to _ invade
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Friends / Things are really beginning to
shape up on the Duluth as far as the
movement is concerned. For a while I was
unsure as to what the climate was really
like, but when I got my copy of Turning
the Regs Around, things started popping.
The whole climate started to rise
about three months ago when the mess
cooks staged a sitdown strike in protest
of all the bullshit they had been getting
from the brass in the past. The claims of
the brass that the mess decks
weren't clean enough, and that the men
were doing a lousy all-around job. So
they secured the: mess cooksT liberty.
They [the mess cooks] retaliated with
the strike because:
(1) How can you keep the mess decks
spotless when they are the main work
center of the ship?
(2) We have a ogreen� crew and the
officers are eating this up by taking ad-
Cambodia
were
SGT TURDY !
THT MEN FALL-OUT INA FULL
WEAPONS FORMATION IN
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PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OUR
ORDERS Td SHIP-OUT
vantage of the men. Every man seems to
work for six different bosses and gets a
new order everytime they turn around.
So nothing gets done, and they get the
blame.
(3) We had just gotten a bunch of
Marines on board and their attitude
definitely did not add to the good of the
morale with the griping and complaining
and throwing of food on the decks and
plates at the people in the scullery.
As soon as the mess cooks formed a
ounion� and went on strike, the knife
was felt. The Executive
Officer (the man who speaks with very
forked tongue) came down and ~opro-
mised�T cooperation if they would go
back to work and clean the place up as
much as possible.
immediately
[CAMBODIA EVACUATION
OR INVASION? ]
Then in August we were sent off the
coast of Cambodia for oevacuation�
purposes. We were not supposed to tell.
Everyone but the American people knows
about this. Wake up America! But I'd like
to know how we intended to evacuate
with tanks, cannon, and mortars along
with a couple of thousand Marines! It
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wasn't so bad the first week, but then the
maul started coming in only once a week,
and there was very little time off. People
were still bitchy about the poor liberty in
Subic constant 48-hour
standby), and to top it off, the officers
(being on
began inventing all kindsT of necessary
watches for people to stand. The mood
was gradually growing blacker as we
stayed out on the line for 32 days. Then
we went
on to off-load
no liberty and round-the-clock
work hassles (no overtime, either, peo-
ple!).
Okinawa to
people
Now that a lot of people have seen the
stickers (Article 138 information stickers
and ~~No Man Is Good Enough To Be
Another ManTs MasterTT) and have read
Turning the Regs Around, the brass fuck-
over has begun. The enlisted personnel
are now starting to kick the shit back to
where it belongs by putting various first-
class POs, COs, and division officers on
report for infractions of regs and filing
Article 138s. Guess what .. . they work!
The gears are in motion and weTre Starting
to gain momentum. Wish us the best of
luck. Solidarity!!
A Brother on the Duluth
Seventh Fleet
CUR COMMANDER-IN- CHIEF
HAS RECENTLY EXPRESSED HIS
CONFIDENCE IN OUR ACTUALLY
WINNING THT INDOCHINESE
PORK CHOP HILL
WAS NEVER
