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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the past two years, Chippewa Dennis Banks has emerged as an angry and outspoken leader of the militant American Indian Movement. With his hair in braids, he has preached a return to traditional Indian ways, including the ancient religions and methods of education. He wants Indian tribes to abandon their white-imposed system of elections and revert to a selection of chiefs by a kind of consensus of medicine men and district leaders...
France was prepared to give the Comoros their independence months ago. But one of the islands, Mayotte (pop. 37,000), which has many Christians, complained that it would be swallowed up by the other three, which are populated by Arabs and blacks. It begged Paris not to abandon it, and the French National Assembly decided that the other three islands could go their way but Mayotte could wave the tricolor just as long as it wanted to. Last month Comoro's Chief Minister Ahmed Abdallah, a Moslem zealot, declared unilateral independence for all the islands, Mayotte included...
...story, Ivy Day in the Committee Room (1905) published 14 years after Parnell's death. Joyce Marlow's antidote to Parnellism-the stuff of which greening statues in the park and old candy-box covers are made-is sobriety. Mrs. Marlow is an exactress who did not abandon drama when she left the stage. Yet her biography of Katharine (and inevitably, Parnell) weighs evidence with the scruples of a professional historian and character with the caution of a professional skeptic. The historian's fussing over documentation may be too detailed for any but devotees of failed crusades...
...fear cruising on an ocean liner. After Airport and its followup, I cringe at the thought of flight. Towering Inferno gives me indigestion before I arrive for dinner at my favorite restaurant on the 62nd floor of the U.S. Steel Building. Jaws [June 23] now forces me to abandon my vacation spot on Cape Hatteras in favor of the safety of the Allegheny River. Ah, the brilliance of Hollywood! In one short year it has transformed Americans into cowering paranoids whose only security is found in the tenth row of a darkened cinema...
...Government and people should not abandon me because of my color and my race," implored the strained voice on a tape recording delivered to the American embassy in Beirut late last week. U.S. officials in the Lebanese capital quickly confirmed that the voice was that of a black U.S. Army officer, Colonel Ernest R. Morgan, 43, who had been kidnaped by terrorists on June...