The three Chicano activists were sentenced to 40, 25, and 10 years. They are now doing time in federal penitentiaries: Sánchez in Atlanta, Ortiz in Lompoc, California, and Fernández in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Los Tres went into federal court here Oct. 19, 1971, on charges of robbery, assault, and battery of a lawful custodian of federal monies, and conspiracy to commit assault and battery on a federal officer.

In the course of the trial, two ex-dealers testified that Los Tres had sought to educate them as to the evils of dope and had offered them drug counseling. Canales himself testified that he had posed as a dealer and that that was what they thought he was. And Los Tres testified concerning their anti- drug-dealer activities, saying that the police, far from stopping drug traffic in the barrios, are deeply involved in it.

Throughout the trial the prosecutor made a series of wild, totally unsubstantiated accusations (which he did not even try to prove) designed to prejudice the jury against Los Tres.

January 12, 1948
The Truman Administration has dragged this country to the verge of undeclared war against the Greek people. U. S. Float marines are being dispatched to the Mediterranean area to reinforce American armed forces already in Greek waters and threatening direct intervention in the Greek civil war.

The latest and most ominous move in U.S. imperialism's so- called "cold war" against communism was announced by the Navy Department on Jan. 2. It revealed that the aircraft carrier Midway and three light cruisers are within quick striking distance of Greece as well as ten destroyers.

Direct U.S. military intervention in Greece was heralded last September, when the U.S. Commander in Greece set up a military branch of 78 U.S. military men to advise the Greek army. This now numbers 66 officers and 101 enlisted men whose duty it is "to go to the front with the Greek troops and advise them on tactics."  
 
 
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