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Quicksilver Times, Volume 2, Number 2

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Underground counterculture newspaper featuring radical leftist political and social news and information. Articles in this edition cover criminality as hatred of the state misdirected against society; efforts to reduce heroin addiction in D.C.'s black community; testimony by Terry Becker on marijuana laws before the D.C. City Council; freedom of expression provisions in the Universal Code of Military Justice; an update on the Three Sisters Bridge; an update on the Chicago 8 Conspiracy Trials; criticism of military training as abusive and contributing to atrocities; reprint of a poster on the FBI's definition of Communism; protests at the Justice Department; young people and the poor; violence during the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival; music reviews; a calendar of events; information about Come Out! newspaper published by the Gay Liberation Front; and criticism of the use of chemical weapons by U.S. forces in Vietnam.Original version: print newspaper; DC Public Library, Special Collections, Periodicals, Quicksilver Times
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