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...Jones, 43. As publisher of York's Amsterdam News, black America's leading weekly newspaper, Jones carries considerable authority with both the black and white communities. A graduate of Columbia and Boston University's law school, he was special counsel to Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a Wall Street investment banker and stockbroker, and founder of a multiracial insurance company. An erudite man with a gift for organization, Jones is trying to build a Harlem-based newspaper, broadcast and entertainment empire in concert with other black leaders...
...Anthony Amsterdam, 40, went to Stanford University to teach law in 1969 but has spent as much time in court as in the classroom. One of the nation's ranking experts in criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs...
Invented by an Amsterdam engineer named Luud Schimmelpennink -apparently no kin to the Dutch cigar manufacturer of that name-Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...
...Rose, who plays Lynn's magnificently swishy lodger Henry, a middle-aged queen mum supervising her diet and her life. The play is full of Henry's preening, his outrageous, satiric gaiety, which has something quite likable about it. Rose, who looks here like a limp Morey Amsterdam, brings the fat farm drama alive...
Sabotage was immediately suspected. The same day, Arab terrorists had hijacked a British Airways VC-10, forced it to land at Amsterdam, and set it afire after releasing 102 passengers. Turkish airline officials, mindful of the fact that a number of antigovernment terrorists had been arrested near Paris last December, were convinced that "an explosion" had occurred. Investigators from the U.S., France and Britain, however, were struck by similarities to an American Airlines DC-10 mishap in June 1972. That plane, en route from Buffalo to Detroit, suffered major damage when a cargo hatch blew...