Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 30, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win Peg frit november iff8 world fear overtakes tolerance in san Francisco extremists vent frustration in Bay area the Washington Post san Francisco pot this City by the Bay has lured millions with its panoramic quaint neighbourhoods and wide open but today this Western Mecca is shocked by a series of acts of violence unparalleled in recent american in the last 10 san Francisco has lost its a supervisor and a once powerful activist minister who led virtually his entire congregation into a macabre act of mass even More disturbing to Many san these deaths appear part of a pervasive atmosphere of terror ism that has enveloped the Region since the Early beginning with the 1964 student disturbances at the University of California at nearby the Bay area has been rocked repeatedly by explosive perpetrated by a wide variety of groups against a bewildering array of among the most re cent on Oakland first Black superintendent of Marcus was gunned Down in a parking lot by two members of the sym ionese libera Tion army using cyanide on eight other Sla members kidnapped a newspaper Fortune Patricia from her Berkeley four months later six Sla members died in a gun Battle with los Angeles on Sara Jane a recent convert to the revolutionary jumped out of the crowd in front of san Francisco Francis hotel and fired a narrowly missing the president Gerald on a bomb was planted and detonated in a window Flower Box outside the Home of san Francisco the supervisor and now acting mayor Dianne fein on three shots were fired into the real estate office of san Francisco supervisor John Barbage less than 12 hours after he received a communique from the terrorist new world liberation front Nulf threatening him and five other civic leaders with ten Days a pipe bomb destroyed the car of san Francisco attorney John Freitas in front of his rattling windows 14 blocks on a member of Oakland Black Panther party was killed in a shootout next to the Home of a key witness in the upcoming murder trial of Panther Leader Huey the Oakland District attorney branded the incident a planned assassination and was Only the latest in a Long series of violent altercations involving the on april the Rudolf Hess Book store that had been opened by nazis across the Street from a synagogue in the heavily jewish Sunset District of san fran Cisco was gutted by on july a pipe bomb attached to a Van belonging to California state Milton Marks daughter exploded outside their san Franciso trying to make sense of these some Here Are pointing to the Bay areas Long established tradition of they has led to the infusion of a disproportionate number of unstable people into the a lot of people have come Here to find new possibilities that didst exist Back All these people come Here looking for said Gayle a promo a photo caskets of mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey milk lie in state at City Hall during a memorial service supervisors Chambers where milk was shot to death Are at top of stairs in nent san Francisco psychologist Long Active in the cites out of these Are a certain group on the people for whom the Lack of Structure and limits Here creates enormous theres nothing Here to keep this craziness under in addition to the areas unique cultural there Luis also been along with it a Long tradition of political activism and idealism on both the left and the it is a legacy that Many among the politically Active interviewed today feel has produced immense frustration when High expectations were dashed with the coming of the relatively quiescent Post watergate theres nothing to rally people no political m machines dream machines from Sony offer everything you need for being pleasantly awakened each comfortably lulled to Steep each night a trendsetting dream machine is the Sony icfc805w with great sounding am and pm recep the electronic digital clock with fluorescent glow ulum nation offers High readability 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less buy the they buy the list of Here the people said Ken a former state assemblyman from there Are a lot of people who have come Here for whom the politics Practised in the rest of the country Are simply while a close Friend of the late George and other liberals pledged to continue in the areas tradition of there Are others Here who say it is time to crack Down and Stop functioning As a Haven for the nations disgruntled we have Here some very socially bizarre said san Francisco supervisor Quentin a frequent target of threats by underground what accounts for it is the sympathetic attitude from these people in people like Peoples Temple have been used in political campaigns and Are apparently in the last few years san Francisco has become a focal place for these whatever their political Point of most political leaders Here share a common fear of the rising tide of violence aimed against their like Oakland state Nick a target of a death threat last say they believe politicians have be come scapegoats for a Public utterly frustrated with the nations theres something and i dont know Petris we politicians have become the whipping boys and the its become very fashionable to take potshots at people Are turned its All pretty whatever the terrorism has become an almost everyday fact of Public life in the Bay in the last seven years there have been some 125 bombings in the aimed at local political corporate the Media and exclusive social were probably the Only office in the country outside of new York that has a bomb said one beleaguered agent at the Bis san Francisco weve had two attempts on the life of the the Patty Hearst the Chowchilla All these prison gangs and now the Peoples Temple and the City Hall All we have to Deal with Back in the East was a simple old Cosa for Many Bay area particularly those within the troubled political the greatest Challenge ahead is finding the will to go to continue working in a system they say they fear constituents no longer believe 1 am very bewildered about what to do said i was a real close Friend of George Moscone but i have to think about the Long we have to work to improve our i guess we just cant run away from a arraignment rescheduled san Francisco a former City supervisor Dan charged with murdering san Francisco mayor and another City made a Brief appearance in a heavily guarded courtroom wednes Day but his arraignment was postponed to allow time for him to get a wearing a Bright Orange prison bit his lip As he was led into court by two Bai policemen ringed the courtroom and reporters and spectators were thoroughly searched before being White did not speak during the three minute hear he nodded his head when municipal court judge Reynolds asked if he waived immedi ate but he did not even glance toward the Spectator Section where his Mary sat with other Whites temporary Gilbert did not seek bail for but requested the continuance on Whites the 32yearold former fireman and policeman has been charged with two counts of first degree Mur Der in mondays shooting deaths of mayor Cgeorge Moscone and supervisor Harvey District attorney Joseph Freitas charged while under a special circumstances this Means if a jury convicted White of murder and also found that the murder took place under special Cir the death penalty would be Manda judge Reynolds set Whites hearing for 6 and said the accused should be prepared to enter a plea at that time a preliminary hearing would then be the youngest member of the Board of the cites legislative resigned saying he could not live on the salary of a he later asked for his Job but Moscone the mayor and milk were gunned Down in their offices just before Moscone was to go before television cameras to announce Whites was shot four times and was shot five White surrendered to police about 45 minutes after the a few hours after Whites court san franciscans attended a memorial service for the slain civic in our this Lovely jewel of a City seems a dark and saddened Dianne acting told the noon crowd that gathered in thick with uie san Francisco symphony seated on the Steps of City Hall to play ave Maria and hundreds of police officers standing guard around the Feins Teui called for an emotional reconstruction in the life of the in the Wake of the tragedies in this additional senseless monstrosity seems simply untre she told the which included office workers from nearby executives in Busi Ness mothers with babies in strollers and scruffy ;