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...concerned with history or politics but rather with how it feels to be an outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed you can't force society to change, that you have to change attitudes before you can change behavior. For this commitment to interracial brotherhood. Baldwin won Cleaver's decision and the label of "Pussycat" to Cleaver's self-proclaimed "Tiger...
Problem is, several thousand other shiftless men have the same idea, and almost as soon as Mickey and Bobby wake up in the morning, they discover that one of them has gotten the boot. In a gesture of amyl-nitrate reinforced friendship, both gentlemen quit, sealing their bonds of brotherhood and looming poverty...
This profound expression of universal brotherhood was penned by two men who combine the all American integrity of Wayne Newton with the political sophistication of Pia Zadora: Michael Jackson and Fionel Richie. Instigated by Band Aid organizer (and Boomtown Rats packleader) Bob Geldorf and produced by Quincy Jones, USA for Africa has more celebs per square inch than the Grammys. Recorded in a session inscribed upon destiny by Life magazine and a video crew, the song is lumped on old vinyl with a Canadian cousin ("Tears Are Not Enough") and some outtakes of other artists...
...leader of the white supremacist group called the Order, also known as the Silent Brotherhood, Bruce Pierce, 30, is believed to have been one of the men who gunned down Denver Talk Show Host Alan Berg in his driveway last June. Pierce has been on the run since April 1984, when he failed to appear for sentencing after pleading guilty in Spokane to charges of counterfeiting. As law-enforcement agencies intensified their probe of right-wing terror groups, they came to consider Pierce the most wanted man in the West...
Western diplomats in Khartoum discounted government claims that the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood was involved in the riots; Nimeiri, wary of its growing power, had recently cracked down on that group. Instead, said one Western official, "people appeared to be venting their frustrations at recent price rises in gasoline and bread." The increases followed Nimeiri's decision to end subsidies on some basic commodities, part of an economic austerity plan demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Nimeiri is expected to cite last week's unrest in asking Reagan to ease U.S. demands for economic reforms and to release $181 million...