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...their music is just as good. Jorge Ben is a musician who's been called Brazil's Marvin Gaye, and his latest album, Tropical, is a paean to escapism. Listening to it is like reading stream-of-consciousness poetry--surreal and full of images, from a cafe on a black-and -white mosaic Rio sidewalk to a red-dirt hairpin road winding up a jungled hill in Latin America. It makes you think of visiting Dom Pedro II's cracked stucco palace where you can talk to the 150-year old parrots he kept as pets way back...
...message, he failed to heed it. Instead, the embattled Smith clung more tenaciously than ever to his minority government (273,000 whites v. 5.8 million blacks). Meanwhile, an economic noose was tightening around the breakaway British colony, and there were ever louder alarms of a debilitating racial war between black-and white-ruled regimes that could engulf southern Africa. The possibility that Rhodesia would become the cockpit of Africa's next violent conflict grew steadily stronger...
...subsequent decision by the new Portuguese government to grant independence to Mozambique next year and to Angola not long thereafter. Faced with the loss of the Portuguese colonies as buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black-and white-ruled Africa. In this effort he was joined, though with quite different motives, by one of black Africa's most responsible leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda...
...leaders, who actively recruit blacks; and of course the pertinacity of blacks themselves who recognize their opportunities and seize them. Surveying the job market from the vantage point of more than 30 years as publisher of Ebony, John H. Johnson marvels at the change. When he first started publishing, he saw only white faces in the business world. "But today," he says, "the bank officer who approved our $1.4 million loan was black. I know that a vice president of Columbia Records or our new representative from IBM is just as likely to be black as white. If someone comes...
...following days several buildings were fire-bombed. and students sponsored a nonattendance strike at S.C. State College and at adjacent Claflin College both completely black-and marched through business and residential sections of the town...