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. . . (CO 0 0 18 19 -> .* . .- - I .- . . . . . .. .. . . ~. . . .i' . ', ! . . TI.- - Y L W ~ Gnctcd more man ciehteen months of pretrial hear- ings. MfSs Davis, a scholar and former philosophy instructor at thc bniversity.of Califorma, L o a Angeles, will be tried pn.charges of m u r - der,, kidnapping apd criminal coaspiracy. IC, rda f& /bge&.tL Due to a re'cbnt dec.ision by the California ,pupreme c0ur.t abolish - ing the death penalty,* Davis ?as released on bail on F e b r u a r y 23. Only $2, SOO'cash was required and a rurety b?nd of $1m, 000. It has not yet been disclosed who put up the money or who has %uaranteed the bond. Singer Aretha Franklin previously offered but the cash probably came fromkhe GPUSA. In a similar case some years ago Eldridge Cleaver failed to appear in abCalifotniGCdurt on 23 December 1968 thereby - forcing kix r u p p o r k r s who hail fiied'baii 'affidavits' in 'Cleaver's behalf- - - to forfeit the total s u m of $SO,'OOO. Cleaver w e r e Godfrey Cambridge, the Negro comedian, Edward Keatiqg lawyer and former publisher of Ramparts Magazine and Dr. Philip Shapiro, a San Francisco physician and a n active supporter of the Black Y6cluded inthe group who supported %- Panther Party. S \R 20Pec. 66 W H d fidd-JWb forced release, not a change in the California lbw. Davis is not expected 3;'?, c* CPUSA sources are already saying that American public opinion "PD to take flight immediately because of her probable intention of turning the trial into a radical circus. P a s t performance indicates, however, t h a f a disappearing act can not be ruled out. ' *29-February, New York City activities protesting the treatment of J e w s principally in the Soviet Union but in other quarters, as well. T h e JDL has announced that on the above date a demonst'ration will be conducted at New York City's board of higher education to protest a quota system of enrollment being planned b y the board for the City University of New York. Such a system apparently 'woild, in the opinion of JDL leaders, be prejudicial to t Jewish population -of the city. - The militant Jewish. Defense League continues its schedule of i;? - F 87 IN cq//'7 qh@/f*b*a:- *2-5 March, San Francis&, California Reportedly, the Jewish Community Rclations Council of San ' Francisco has announced actions to be taken during the forthcoming visit of the Russian Osipov Balalaika Orchestra on the abovc datcs. Thc council p l a y to pickct and Icrflnt all petformanccs of tllc otclrcslra w a l e at San Francisco, a%d cach pcrformancc* will bc thc responsibility of a different bay area Yewish organization. Some of the groups ex- . ation League, the Bay Area Council of Soviet Jewry, and the Jewish Waf' veterans . . . . - pected to participate are the Soviet J e w r y Action Group, the Anti-Defam- ET:. - s *