European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Positively benign former Radical by John Howard. Associated press of i Jiho Aii i in Iii per Kin Cli Viver mis in n Chilo in Batik Eloy. . a. A Crnic not and exploit How i from radtc.1t militant lib it was the repression of other governments i encountered As a said Cleave who spirit seven years in still Irno Kiili exile Tho of he United vats nothing to Hal of countries like Cuba and North Korea in Cuba we wore fatigues Ami grew boards As revolutionary gestures but1 began to realize thai the people viewed those fatigues As a Symbol of eventually he said he concluded that Loo much Gove Jimen was that perception he said accompanied by a conversion to christianity led him into the ranks of conservatives who oppose big government and old Hutch Joers who espouse traditional moral Virtues the 48-year-old author of the critically acclaimed. Soul on ice who inspired o generation of Black militants in the 1960s, Iso Neol 13candidatestor the Lor the . Senate. Cleavers lands mile Chance of firming he does not Register on statewide polls. But the Armor information minister of tie Black Panther party Drew cheers and a standing ovation trom hundreds of delegates in the stale Republican parly s recent convention Tor urging listeners to fight the International communist 1 i barely had enough Money to get Down there i spent the night at the Homo of a student he said. Deaver supports himself largely by lecturing and writing bul Roco Ives no royalties irom soul on ice. A Brief foray into marketing men s cleaning also did not pan out. Soul on ice. A collection of essays exploring Cleaver s feelings on youth race Lova. Imprison Meol and religion contained some of the most powerful protest writ info of the 1960s. In one essay Entil Fod on becoming. Chewer described his rape of White women As an insure dec Fiory act. It delighted me Hal i vows defying and trampling upon the while Man s Law. Defiling his women. 1 wanted to Send Waves of con ignation through she while Cleaver who spent a decade in California s toughest prisons Lor assault with intent to commit Ruider appears positively benign Oday with his hair grading Al the temples his conservatively Cut clothing. His spectacles he lives in a White Rirsme House in Berkeley. An american Flag fluttering in the front Yard. Most people who see Cleaver on the Street Don 1 recognize him. His second floor living room resembles the comfortable quarters of a Well Oil College student. Filled with books electronic equipment and posters a word processor tanked by computer dish and Mounds of notes covers a Lable. There Are photographs of his wife. A Aihleen now studying Law a i Yale univ easily and two children Boih of whom were bom while Cleaver was a fugitive. But the most striking decoration in Cleaver s Homo is a poster size repro Duclion of a 1954 prison photograph in which a teen age Cleaver a number across is Chest Glades fiercely into the camera. The startling picture is dominated by his Oyes. Cleaver said 32 years Laler. Is my Iii Vonte picture. I had in made from my prison id card Cleaver who co founded the Slack panthers in 19ob with Huey new Tran left the country in 1968 Loilo eng .1 shootout but wet i police and the Black pan Hora which hundreds of rounds blasted a West . neighbourhood Blac Panther Bobby huli ii do and Cleaver was wounded. Cleavor no Cusco of ofis opted murder and ,. Cleaver in w6& then he wot the Ujj Black Panther minister of information. Find la Zoril i Al ital Inifi Iii i of Vert Yent Ody Effly a Loia in to i 15wn l Union Uwi. Rte inns. Ai i Anco mirth or a i " Bui ii lit/.-. Lic i i Idono Aifiti of on i i ii a i i to i Init Loc Lind hat lie i m i , coi Iversion. To How merry. Crisick f tical irly the Black Panl fior " a i. I Yin a i in Ija Tilo. While to , de on $ i 00,000 income of t Sileci cod Uil y in on Jilin novo Vith a 10 ,iaul1ing an on want pts lion to Lurn the it tempted Niu Dor charge dropped. Finally 12 years a a the Oakland gift Hail Clor Ivor received probation and was ordered to perform 3,000 hours of Community service. Eve Thody changes no just he Sak. Wins pulled Over in my car Wilh my Secretary Tor a trn ofic thing and one of the officers walked up to the car and saw int Silling inside. He took Ott his Hal and said. Hey Eldridge remember me he used to be a Panther Cleaver said. If was hard to believe.". But Edge Cleaver in 1976. Sunday May 16. 1986 the stars and stripes
