Workin' At Travelers Aid-ISS Revisited (7)

 The only other workers I can vaguely recall who worked in the building in which the Travelers Aid-ISS workplace office in Manhattan was then located were two African-American men, seeming to be in their late 20s or early 30s, who worked behind the counter of the small cafeteria, which was located in the basement of the building.

Each workday I would spend my morning and afternoon 15-minute coffee break time down in the small basement cafeteria of the building, usually buying and eating a buttered roll, a danish, or some other cake snack; and sometimes conversing with the two friendly African-American men behind the counter who were always dressed in their chef-suit workclothes.

But, so many years later, the only conversation I can now recall having had with them was one in which one of the African-American cafeteria workers expressed surprise when I mentioned to him that I didn't particularly mind it, if a woman lover I may have been involved with wanted to also be involved sexually with another lover, because I wasn't into monogamy and was in favor of multiple relationships for women, as well as for men.

It was also while I was working at Travelers Aid-ISS that the LAPD police officers attacked the house in Los Angeles in which six of the Symbionese Liberation Army [SLA] anti-imperialist/anti-capitalist and anti-racist left urban guerrillas- who had kidnapped the billionaire Hearst Dynasty heiress, Patty Hearst, a few months before to demand that the Hearst Dynasty set up a "free food for the poor" program and publish the SLA communique texts in the newspapers it then owned--were then hiding out.

And, like most 1970s U.S. left Movement supporters, after it was revealed that, rather than just surrounding the house in which the SLA members were hiding and waiting until some kind of negotiated surrender and arrest of SLA members would then be arranged by left Movement lawyers, the FBI-backed LAPD cops had chosen to just burn out and massacre, on the spot, the six SLA members who were inside the Los Angeles house, I then felt enraged. 

In the mid-1970s, the degree to which the U.S. West Coast FBI office and the U.S. West Coast police departments were able to be in immediate contact with the U.S. East Coast FBI office and the U.S. East Coast police departments seemed to apparently be much less than it became in later decades; after the development of more advanced computer technology had enabled FBI offices and local police departments to apparently substitute the use of emails for the use of telephones, telexes and faxes, as a means of communication among themselves.

So when I thought to myself that one way U.S. left Movement people on the U.S. East Coast might be able to respond to the FBI and LAPD's fascist-type elimination, on behalf of the billionaire Hearst Dynasty, of the six SLA members, I then assumed that the East Coast FBI and East Coast police department offices would be unprepared then to respond to some U.S. left East Coast act of revolutionary resistance, which focused on a Hearst Dynasty media conglomerate-related symbol.