Word: caf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is going on? Reporters stride through the quiet, tree-shaded boulevards for a rendezvous with the diplomats-the Australians and French, Russians and Americans, Israelis and Vietnamese. They meet in restaurants like the Café de Paris and Venice, and over rich red wine and Chateaubriand, served silently by white-coated Cambodian waiters, diplomats and reporters trade information. No one has the whole story. In Phnom-Penh, everyone is a gatherer of bits and pieces of information. "Did you hear?" the reporter asks, and then delivers a nugget of information to the diplomat. The diplomat reciprocates. They go their...
...themselves as suedeheads. Skins or suedes, they specialize in terrorizing such menacing types as hippies and homosexuals, Pakistani immigrants and little old ladies. "Hairies," those with long hair or hippie-style clothing, are their particular enemies, but they are quite happy to break up a synagogue, a Chinese café or an Indian restaurant. The skinheads live for "agro" (causing "aggravation") and "bovver" (street fighting). While they favor the boot as a primary weapon, they also use their heads to "nut" or butt a victim, and whatever other weapons come to hand: bricks, rocks, bottles, knives and razors. "Scar stuff...
...least 100 black tenant farmers have been evicted by white landowners, and blacks still enter white-owned cafés by the back door-even though legal discrimination no longer exists. Whites have accepted black school enrollments up to 22% without much fuss, but when desegregation orders raise black representation to at least 66% in September, those whites who can afford the $400-a-year tuition will doubtless pour into the private cement-block Warrior Academy. One young teacher there explains: "There's so much low intelligence among the blacks...
Scene 3: The Bitter End Café in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, 1970. Jimmy Walker, 22, outlines the new black education: "Here's black history, here's where black people come from, black folks-and then they show us an Amos 'n' Andy rerun. Or chemistry class. That's where they show us how to make roach and ant killer...
Died. João Café Filho, 71, former President of Brazil, who as vice president under Getúlio Vargas assumed office upon the dictator's suicide in Aug. 1954, quickly won a reputation as a fair-minded administrator, dedicated to stabilizing Brazil's chaotic one-crop (coffee) economy, only to be forced into retirement by a heart attack after 15 months in office; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro...