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...Kinshasa. From the beginning, Mobutu has ruled with an iron hand. He dissolved the Parliament, the 44 political parties and seven trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced the concepts of left and right. When I, as the chief, shout or seize my rod to chastise, I do not do so out of malice, but rather for the happiness of everyone...
...radicals accused the SMC of "selling out the people to appease the liberal politicians." "RYM leader C. Clark Kissinger criticized mass marches which, he said, "cheer Mayor Lindsay while his pigs run all over Harlem, [and] boo David Hilliard [a Black Panther leader] for saying it like...
Although it is all very bippity-boppity-boo and cynics may scoff at those giant cartoon characters bobbing about on that enormous stage, the kids love it. So do most of their parents. In Chicago, the big people were right in there with the little people, singing the Mickey Mouse song, wearing Mickey Mouse hats and scrambling to shake hands with the Disney characters as they moved through the audience...
...controllers were assured that Apollo was in perfect shape, Conrad fired the third stage S-4B rocket. The 51-minute burn increased the spacecraft's speed to 24,100 m.p.h., lifted it from orbit and sent it on its way to the moon. Said Conrad: "Everything is tickety-boo...
...used to be that "better living through chemistry" was just another advertising slogan; now it is a sly joke to the young and a grievous worry to their parents. In their quest for sensory experience, an alarming number of kids are swallowing its message whole. Marijuana ("pot," "grass," "boo," "tea," "mary jane," "broccoli," "weed") is their favorite preparation; in lesser numbers, they are smoking hashish ("hash"), taking mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, LSD ("acid"), using barbiturates and sedatives ("goofers," "downers," "red devils," "red birds," "pheenies," "green dragons," "yellow jackets," "tooies"), swallowing or injecting amphetamine stimulants ("crystal," "crank," "meth," "bennies," "dexies," "Christmas trees...