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...experimentation with sonic textures is further developed through their use of what exasperated liner note editors have dubbed "little instruments." All kinds of bells gongs, whistles, shakers, bicycle horns, bongo drums, zithers, woodblocks, and assorted simple percussion instruments are used by Art Ensemble members to richen the fabric of their music. Usually regarded as gimmicks or novelty items, these little instruments have become an essential feature of the AEC's musical language. When the group travelled to Europe, they packed literally hundreds of these odd tools of their trade. The little instruments provide memorable visual images--Jarman serenely blowing...
Demonstrators, led by members of SASC and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC), chanted "Chase Manhattan foots the bill, Botha's army shoots to kill," and other slogans to the beats of bongo drums as Chase recruiters interviewed students inside Winthrop...
...also charged that since 1971 Page executives have made other questionable payments of more than $2.5 million in connection with $60 million in aircraft sales abroad, mostly involving Gulfstreams. According to the SEC, Page gave $200,000 to President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo of Gabon; paid $412,000 to an organization whose secretary was Timothee Ahoua, Ivory Coast Ambassador to the U.S.; passed $900,000 to an outfit controlled by Datuk Harris Salleh, at that time Minister of Industrial Development of the Malaysian state of Sabah; and gave a Cadillac convertible to Uganda's dictator, Idi Amin Dada...
...complementary-but contradictory -measure provided that the "sovereignty of every African country gives it the right to appeal to any other country for help if its security and independence are threatened." In an oblique criticism of those cross-purposes proposals, Gabonese President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo, the OAU's outgoing chairman, ruefully noted: "We have the habit of talking without saying anything [and of] making too many resolutions...
...slipped back across the Angolan border, but no matter. The hero of the hour was President Giscard, who was broadly cheered when he declared, "Africa for the Africans. Everything must be done to withdraw the continent from the rivalries of political blocs." Gabon's President Albert-Bernard (Omar) Bongo, currently head of the Organization of African Unity, declared that Giscard deserved the Nobel Prize for his Africa policy. Bongo also proposed the creation of an all-Africa security organization to preserve the continent from the evils of "assassination, genocide and massacre." The delegates liked the idea and, despite the enormous...