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...Black Muslims await Allah's destruction of the white devil but the Republic of New Africa and others are plunging into the revolutionary struggle. The first shoots of Afro-Islamic law are appearing in drafts of Black Laws and in emerging bleak courts. I have observed some of these beginnings from the inside and I estimate the potential to be comparable to the dreams of the early Zionists...
Meanwhile, 200 girls and 200 Instamatics had pressed up against the stage to await the arrival of their hero. I tried to picture these girls eight years hence, some of them perhaps sitting in Sanders Theatre listening to William Alfred lecture on Thucydides. What was the girl sitting next to you in Fine Arts 13 doing ten years...
Angela appeared subdued, almost timid at her arraignment in federal court on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder and kidnaping in California. She was later turned over to New York authorities to await a hearing next month on extradition to California. Says William Kunstler, a defense attorney in the Chicago conspiracy trial: "She now seems to be torn between the old-line theory and her friendship with black people. Remember, her education is all white-oriented-Brandeis, the Sorbonne, Marcuse." Yet, he adds, "the differences between the party and the movement are irreconcilable. The Communist Party...
Most likely, though, any purge or reform must await the return of a strong Democratic president with the guts to lend his prestige to the effort. Not since FDR has the presidential party ever amassed enough muscle to intimidate the congressional party-although the prospects have improved somewhat since the Johnson-Rayburn days. While Galbraith may be right about the Dixie nemesis, no one should expect the Democratic Party to inflict on itself a massive internal bleeding in its current state of health. With perhaps a lingering nostalgia for the days of Southern populism, some liberals expect the problem...
...college and university administrators await the return of most students this week, their apprehension turns less on the almost certain resumption of protest than on the possibility of terrorist violence. The worst such incident to date, last month's bombing of the mathematics research center at the University of Wisconsin, left a badly demoralized campus amid the rubble. To assess the implications of that bitter event for academic institutions elsewhere, TIME Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski visited the university and sent this report...