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...With a backdrop of posters of Huey Newton and George Jackson, a spokesman for the Massachusetts chapter of the Black Panther Party announced yesterday morning that the Panthers will support Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D.N.Y.) for President...
...Berlin Wall, which has served so often as a backdrop for human suffering, last week witnessed a very different sort of scene. From the divided city's Western sector, they came on foot by the thousands-old people struggling with sacks full of presents, small children carrying freshly cut roses or tulips, young mothers pushing prams, men lugging thick suitcases. Alternately smiling and weeping for joy, the visitors trudged past the tank traps, the death strip, the watchtowers. Finally, after clearing the last checkpoint, they rushed to meet friends and relatives whose faces some of them had almost forgotten...
Against that backdrop in Ulster, Heath prepared in London to unveil his long-awaited new policy for Northern Ireland. Some proposals had already been announced: "an active, permanent and guaranteed place" for Ulster's Catholics in the government of Northern Ireland, massive economic aid to ease unemployment, and a gradual phasing down of the internment of I.R.A. suspects without trial, which had, more than anything else, infuriated the Catholic community. What had not been known was that Heath had also decided to place the police-up till now responsible to Stormont-as well as the army directly under Westminster...
...group. Wayne Lipton's cello is a distinguishing factor in the group's overall sound and is employed with stunning effectiveness to counterpoint the guitar work. Particularly in Hunt's Desert Bones are both instruments combined in a tight-woven harmony with Lipton's cello providing an eerie backdrop for the song's haunting lyrics...
...guests sit down and begin an other orgy of eating. The band tootles She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain and Billy Boy. It still is not easy to take it all in. The only change in the room is the backdrop. The position of the flags, designating which country is host and which is guest, has been reversed. There is the vague feeling in the banquet hall that everybody has been part of some gigantic hoax, or maybe not quite that, but some kind of staging. After the popping of champagne corks (Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs...