Oregon daily emerald., January 13, 1971, Page 4, Image 4

Reagan links legal group with Angela
By GIL JOHNSON
College Press Service
SACRAMENTO (CPS) —
Although Angela Davis has yet to
be tried on charges of murder,
kidnapping and conspiracy, she
is, of course, guilty. And anyone
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remotely associated with her
must, too, be held in suspicion.
And any organization which
might have been associated with
her—well, vou know how those
commie infiltrators work.
Essentially, California Gov.
Ronald Reagan has employed
that line of reasoning in his effort
to get a poverty program legal
defense agency off his back.
California Rural Legal
Assistance, Inc. has been linked
to Angela Davis in a 283 page
report prepared by Reagan’s
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staff, written to support Reagan’s
controversial veto of federal
funds for CRLA. The CRLA has
been effective in fighting for
farm workers’ and migrant
laborers’ rights.
The report claims CRLA at
torneys set up a meeting in
Soledad prison between Davis
and convicts charged with
killing a white guard. This
charge has been denied by the
director of the CRLA.
It will be up to the acting
director of the Office of
Economic Opportunity, Frank
Carlucci, to decide on the Angela
Davis charge and others leveled
in the Reagan report. There are
pressures on him both to sustain
and override Reagan’s veto.
The Reagan report alleges
CRLA attorneys have made at
least 150 visits to the prison
since the first guard slaying last
February and cites an attempt to
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exhibits art
The work of two Portland
Artists is currently being
displayed in the Art Gallery of
the Erb Memorial Union at the
University.
Graphic designs by G. Ransdell
and sketches by Dennis Biasi
make up the display that will be
exhibited in the Union through
January.
Ransdell’s work features large,
bold, and colorful designs done
with a combination of acrylic,
latex, and enamel paints. The
artist attempts to portray
complex and varied numbers of
forms through the use of a very
few, limited lines.
The ink and pencil sketches of
Biasi include a broad range of
abstract and contemporary
illustrations. Biasi, whose work
has won a number of awards,
studies at Grand Valley State
College and Kendall School of
Design in Michigan. He has
worked as an art director with a
Kentucky advertising agency.
Both artists are young. Ran
sdell is 27 and Biasi is 23.
Works in the exhibit are on
sale. Those wishing information
on purchase may contact the
Program Office of the Erb
Memorial Union.
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arrange a visit for the 26-year old
former UCLA philosophy in
structor as an example of the
“gravity of involvement” of
CRLA in criminal cases outside
its area of responsibility.
Davis is now being held in jail
in the same Marin County civic
center where Jonathan Jackson,
Fleeta Drumgo and George
Plushette died along with a judge
in an Aug. 7 escape try by San
Quentin prison inmates. Davis is
charged with allegedly supplying
the weapons used in the shootout
outside the court building.
“Prior to the courthouse in
cident,” the Reagan staff report
says, “attorney Faye Stender
and CRLA attorneys interceded
at Soledad in an attempt to
arrange a visit for Angela Davis
to meet with George Jackson
(one of the accused in a Soledad
guard killing).”
Marty Glick, CRLA director of
litigation, says the report is
nonsense. “Of some 18,900 cases
that CRLA has handled, perhaps
four or five had anything to do
with prisons,” says Glick. “None
of them were criminal cases.
None of them were connected
with the Soledad Brothers,
Angela Davis or the Soledad
Seven.”
Cruz Reynoso, director of
CRLA, denies that any poverty
lawyers in his program were
associated with Davis. “Nothing
could be further from the truth,”
Reynoso says, “This is Me
Carthyism at its worst.”
Of the 72,000 legal matters
which CRLA has handled in four
years, no more than seven or
eight dealt with prisons, ac
cording to Reynoso. He said
CRLA lawyers have represented
indigent inmates in two cases in
protecting two basic con
stitutional rights—the right to
communicate with an attorney
and the right of Mexican
Americans to receive
publications of interest to them.
Reynoso believes Reagan’s
report is an attempt to eliminate
through guilt by association an
effective, within-the-system tool
for the oppressed. Legal aid for
poor people is tolerated, it seems,
only when it doesn’t do any good.
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