>age 6 THE BATTALION i TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1981 Local / State Panthers’ dream soured, leader says 11 i United Press International DALLAS — Former black nilitant Eldridge Cleaver has palled Ronald Reagan the father” of the radical group pleaver helped found — the Black Panthers — and said com- Jnunism was a form of prison government. “We (black militants) used to call Ronald Reagan the father of the Black Panther Party, be cause it came into being during ,his administration in Califor nia,” he said during a speech at Southern Methodist University Monday. ; “California was at the center pf a lot of black activism and that was the time of Reagan’s rise. ” \ Cleaver said his early years of trime and punishment affected his politics. “I spent 12 and a half years in the federal prison system and it became my graduate school,” said Cleaver, former Black Panther minister. “I learned about Marxism and my mission became to find people willing to take up arms for the struggle — armed re volution.” But, he said, that dream went sour in the bloody confronta tions with police in the late 1960s. Cleaver skipped the country while awaiting trial on parole violations and in his exile years said he became disgusted with communism in practice. “All the communist countries I visited had the same dynamics I found in prison,” he said. Cleaver urged American blacks to elevate a new crop of national leaders not blindly wedded to the old ways of the past. He called the leadership of such blacks as Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy and the “en tire black (Congressional) caucus” obsolete and said they should be replaced. Wadley (continued from page 1) bored and not being able to get up. The process for obtaining platelets is essentially the same as the process for collecting blood. Platelets are the part of the blood which allows it to clot. Some peo ple, such as hemophiliacs, lack them. Wadley collects enough platelets for one dose in one and a half hours. Since donating platelets takes less time than donating lymphocytes, many of the platelet donors are not family members but are members of the Infection Fighters Club, a group Wadley has organized to honor its volunteer donors. Many Infection Fighters made their first donation for a family member but now donate whenev er they are needed, Erlinda Zabal- lero, assistant supervisor of the leukopheresis lab, said. Some donate platelets as often as 10 times per year. Most donations of platelets and lymphocytes are sent to hospitals for individual patients. However, hospitals are not the bank’s only customers for blood components. The institute is a major user of its own blood, especially in its in terferon research. Interferon is a substance which occurs naturally in the blood, but in minute quantities. When it is extracted from the blood and con centrated, some scientists say in terferon can help shrink tumors and may ultimately prove to be a cure for leukemia, hepatitis and multiple sclerosis. "Black’ woman finds she’s actually white United Press International MILWAUKEE — Lynette Klatt admits it will take some time to get over the shock that she is white instead of black. She looks at her newly revised driver’s license to be sure. In a newspaper story, Klatt of nearby Neenah said she grew up the adopted child of the late Wil- lian and Catherine Buck of Chica go, thinking she was black. The black couple had adopted her in 1951, when she was 2 years old, from an adoption agency in the South. Klatt said that because she had mongolian spots — bruises similar to birth marks — the adoption agency felt her father had prob ably been black. “In Chicago, where I grew up, I lived in a racially integrated neighborhood,” she said. “My pa rents were more white than black in their mannerisms, the way they acted.” After her adoptive parents died, the dark-haired Klatt, 32, tried to find her real parents and learned they were white. Klatt said her real mother was proud of the way she turned out. Married to a white, Klatt ack nowledges she is “still sometimes mixed up about it.” She said, “Sometimes I’m not sure how I feel.” Photo by John R. Jow