European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Revolution on ice Cleaver As stack Panther firebrand in on gospel Trail with wife after returning exile America it truly a Dlug Tutag Burden upon this a Burden All it Drudge 1963 with All a american political to item it the Jet Cut and Moit democratic in tin 1sj7 by Tony Ledwell anon Ltd press he once described himself As a stranger particularly to 1 am very familiar with the Eldridge who came to but that Eldridge no longer and he one i am now is in some ways a stranger to words written in a Liny cell at Folsom prison on june by a Young Man with an anger running so deep that tie credited his own imprisonment with saving him irom becoming a coldblooded i wanted to Bend Waves of consternation through the White he wrote in soul on is 1968 1 know that it i had not been i would have Slit some while he renounces those but they were honest at the when he goes on trial on charges of attempted he will be flanked by three attorneys at Eldridge Troy Cleaver says be flail la know who be the Jort Tonari firebrand whose thundering rhetoric once aborted masses of angry Youing men the Armad seared the Watts est of others ont Speaks fatty o we brewed a Nachita the gospel of jews Christ the former while House dirty tricks political Charles is at swe Jiey proclaim themselves in Christ and talk of their past contempt for each their religious con versions and new Cleaver has called Oolson an understanding Cleaver spends his Days lecturing and his irial in limbo awaiting the outcome of Legal the California court of appeals recently turned Down the front Wiks of the Black party and almost died in a shootout with police in ran candidate of the place Art Freedom Paw Reeung Many of the  he now he got More than As 000 was three weeks of the m the r a seven year exile to avoid arrest on f he wandered through and North eventually filing in Beaver Days per found Reu Tous experience prompted his decision to come Home and make is knowing Tail and attempted murder charges awaited lie now projects the image of a zealous Emit tearing those who stood with him in the former Stew says he would like to see him handed Over to a jury of his Peers to be tried for political Cleaver admits thai he is having great problems with those who do not want me to who want me to con form to their 1968 images of but All that is gone for in the confusing portrait of a gun rattling rebel turned spiritual pacifist and devout Christian triggers the inevitable question is Cleaver sincere or trying to win sym Pathy from potential when he was released from jail on Ball last be acknowledged that he was trying to win the Trust of but because at his Sharp personality he also said it would be a Long and arduous when a tester the Black panthers called a news conference and suggested he had become an Fri in the party toned Down its saying it had no we were wrong to make Cleaver a Public says Elaine minister of perhaps the Best Way to sum Lai our jux gluon is to say that we Are Ideo logically opposed to Eldridge cleavers present poli since his Cleaver has appeared on meet the lectured on campuses and churches and been in end Ridge whose in fur Watt inf aged seme Hall urn and us late George Jackson the Tom Fakki of the Black now Kathleen his wife of 10 Saya with a chuckle that her once bitter husband now Only wants to be an elder for the revolution is on Many of his friends died in the recurring War Between the panthers and the former Comrade Huey exiled in Cuba for three rec Nily decided to return to the United saying a changing political climate made possible a fair trial of the murder charges he but while Newton vows to resume the leadership of the Black Panther party and to expand in social Cleaver says he wants to spend his remaining years As a his social philosophy and explain ing How religion changed his he has a contract to write a Book on his personal spiritual studied and i agree with the teaching of but i dont like the idea that Ive been bom again in my in certain that people would see that As some kind of opportunistic gambit on my he theres nothing sudden about it has been a july 1977 very painful change that has Token place Over a consider Able period of Cleaver says his experiences in exile led me to re fresh my Contact with the whole spiritual tial i found was that my previous philosophy had an emptiness at the i came to see thai there is a fundamental mistake contained Tri the marxist Leninist where they make the distinction Between idealism and everything dealing with the spirit or with religious subjects is lumped under idealism and i came to feel that there is not Only room but a necessity for us to address ourselves to morality and the relationship be tween so i was and the Black panthers were we had a totally political and economic with out giving any consideration to the More civilizing influx he emphasises is newfound patriotism by de our member Alp in the United states supreme Blu Chip Hud the one we have la sex Cleaver is charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer in the april shooting with Oak land coughing tear Gas and with a Bullet in Bis survived the bin Lite he contends he never fired a nor even held a he said he hid in a the police say the panthers were loading a caravan with weapons to kill policemen at the panthers said they were Toad Long food supplies for a fundraising Barbecue the following who contend the Fri waged a Campaign to destroy him and the Black Panther was free on bail when he was ordered Back to jail in the fall of fearing for his he he Eldridge and Kathleen who often spoke to Gether at impassioned Black rallies in the have their friends they seem like any other Middle class seeking Solitude in the suburbs and enrolling their two children in private who once answered her front door with carbine la now asks canal acquaint Aacen where the Belt schools her friends Tay the wants to involve herself in toe Boers it a chronicler of Black fru Stalion and Symbol of a volatile is now a he depicts himself As a Man without each generation subjects the world it inherits to severe he i think my generation has been More critical than and for Good at the same at the end of the critical we should arrive at some we should have discovered which values Are Worth conserving the stars and stripes paws 13