Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON (Columbia). Ex-Con Cash recorded these songs at California's Folsom Prison, and the echo of prisoners' applause against concrete walls adds a bitter and powerful background. A guard's announcement that "88419 is wanted in Reception" serves as sharp counterpoint to such lyrics as "The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,/ But I know it was suicide." Most chilling song: 25 Minutes to Go, a swinging minute-by-minute account of an execution by hanging. In its own way, a sad, brilliant album...
...police in Cleveland was increasing white apprehension about law and order all over the country, it seemed to be inspiring black militants to a higher level of bombast. Said Eldridge Cleaver, a leader of Oakland's Black Panthers and author of Soul on Ice, a compendium of bitter autobiographical essays: "It shows that psychologically blacks are not only prepared to die but to kill." Added Stokely Carmichael: "We are only at the beginning of a revolution-the armed stage. We must create the maximum damage with a minimum loss of black people. And that is through guerrilla warfare...
...moderate labor leader is Texas Democrat Ed Watson, 48, son of a deputy sheriff and now vice president of Local 4367 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. This will be his first national convention, but Watson has been a political activist since 1952, when he lost a bitter factional fight in his local precinct. "The issue then-as now-was whether liberals or conservatives would control the Texas Democratic Party." Watson favors Humphrey, and thus finds himself for once on the same side as his longtime conservative opponents...
Neither the House bill nor a similar Senate bill, cleared by the Judiciary Committee the same day, provides for licensing gun owners or federal registration of firearms. The bitter opposition of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond had convinced the Senate's chief gun-control proponent, Joseph Tydings, that his only chance for a tough bill lay on the Senate floor itself, where the Maryland Democrat hopes to revive the measure after the conventions...
...African Unity, the warring parties promised to undertake a second try at a full-scale peace conference in Addis Ababa on Aug. 5. At the very least the Biafran leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, hopes to achieve a temporary ceasefire. For Biafra desperately needs a respite in the bitter...