Article: Eldridge Cleaver: A '60s radical lost in the '90s. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

BERKELEY, Calif. _ Eldridge Cleaver, author, polemicist and radical icon of the 1960s, lies in a Berkeley hospital bed, a casualty of his own private wars. 
Twenty-five years ago, as the Black Panther Party's minister of information, he was among America's most identifiable public figures. But for the past two decades, he has slipped into quiet anonymity, punctuated by moments in the public spotlight _ as a Republican candidate for U.S. senator, born-again Christian, fashion designer and treasure hunter. 
But in his daily life, he rarely struggled to change the world, living instead a constant battle for survival _ from scavenging discarded bottles and broken-down chairs ...

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