Show The Utah Statesman IT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Black nther leader Eldridge Cleaver who once rocated violent overthrow of “racist (italist” America now is studying the Morin Church and says he wants to preserve nation from Communism Cleaver who once embraced Marxism but cr converted to Christianity was here meeting with Mormon officials and ending seminars at the conservative semen Institute Cleaver’s odyssey from The avict black militant author and political ex-t- o itsday “American nationalist” a nation with a mission — to Each democracy to America “The experience I’ve been given was for a rpose and that purpose is to share the i made him cssed in my fellow Americans” Cleaver a business suit said in an inter-r- w planned to join the Mormon Cleaver replied “The day that I n that will be the day to discuss that At s point my situation is that I know quite a (Mormons I’m studying the religion and n very pleased with what I’m finding out” Cleaver declined to be specific about his ks with officials of the Church of Jesus trist of Latter-da- y Saints saying the tetings were private But he said he had und the church had “a serious way of deal-- g with the scriptures” he had not seen in Asked if he lurch her faiths The iticized for barring m its priesthood church long blacks of African descent abruptly changed its 'bey in 1978 when church President Spencer Kimball said he had received a revelation God Cleaver am said he was “very inspired” by the ilicy change He dismissed claims by some ai (he church is a racist institution “You can accuse any group of being racist ick or white I don’t let rumors like that icourage me You can’t grow up in our ciety without developing some racial feel-- ’ he said leaver 166 author of the critically acclaimed about changes in r philosophy during his book Soul on Ice talked political Joum abroad to 'tninal charges p 11 1981 Pagy 13 it soon be Elder Eldridge? Vill ith with Wednesday February eight-yea- avoid prosecution on “I was calling myself a Communist or a Marxist and then I would see people fleeing these Communist regimes and they would tell me things about people being tortured and killed for their beliefs” he said Cleaver fled to Cuba in 1968 to avoid prosecution on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with a Black Panther shootout with Oakland During his “political exile” Cleaver left Cuba for Algeria and later France He also visited the Soviet Union People’e Republic of China North Korea the Middle East and several black African nations “This change didn’t happen overnight” he said “It came from eight years of knocking around the Communist world My experience has awakened me to some realities The human spirit suffers under such governments People are stifled and all over the world they’re fighting to have democratic forms of government” Cleaver said he has no arguments now with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers Newton had denounced Cleaver upon the latter’s return to the United States in 1975 Cleaver who served separate prison terms in California in the 1950s for marijuana possession and assault a year ago pleaded guilty to asSault in the Oakland shootout He currently is performing community service at the De Anza College library near San Francisco and said he does “odd jobs” like painting and horticulture He said his wife Kathleen is “paying the rent bringing home the bacon and trying to put on my pants” The couple has two children ages 12 and 11 Cleaver said he thinks Soul on Ice was “a valid contribution” although he no longer court-impose- d eg $275 Of his involvement in the and civil rights movements of the 1960s anti-Vietna- war Cleaver said it was a major mistake for him to embrace Marxist-Leniniphilosophy but he believes the movements themselves were st justified “There was some wrong on both sides” he said "I’m not one to look back on our activity and say we were all wrong” 13 14 16 February Friday Saturday Monday Owiso PIZZA 4 &G&R’&JSTRp on o pH-cb- Hot 5 1 u cr a-- Reg $249 HEADBOARD beer on4 f pizx3L pram -- (3 To Vpll uJTvi rvii5 peuvteRci? -- AT-TH- $249 complete BOOKCASE HEADBOARD feVGTRO £ -- vXi-a- p 4:30-- AW-ftt£6- i Of PGR GCH& 010 VAmo put: orpines S’HH'P ockuJ f(T m m XP ‘Pie-fU&C- ’ U 4 6£LUieEX Join us at the John Fluke Mfg Co Inc Fluke design manufactures and sells precision electronic instruments Our annual sales exceed SI 25 million making us one of the leading suppliers in the test and measurment field Join us as we move - into new areas of high technology and into our new Everett Washington facility just minutes north of Seattle on 335 wooded acres We’ll be on campus Wednesday all SIZES BASIC KIT king $189 complete ttJEEN SUPER single WOOD JOINT ENTERPRISES INC 2600 Mo yftiin lyan 753-411- 0 cu SricVly Rua We’re looking for engineers with the qualifications and the desire to contribute to the growth of the test ad measurement industry LOGAN RUSTIC bookcase : SALE advocates Marxism AT OUR MEW LOCATION “Want A Waterbed?” $229 complete ’ police FEBRUARY drifter Vashlngton’o Dlrtbday Contact your job for exact time and office placement location February 18 1981 |