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...leaflet, written in Chinese and asking newly arrived Chinese immigrants to inform the FBI of any "subversive activities," has been circulating in Boston's Chinatown during the last month...
Cahoots, while an improvement over Stage Fright, still suffers from the same problem. The opening cut, "Life is a Carnival," is the best thing on the album and owes a whole lot to Sly Stone. "Where Do We Go From Here?," "Smoke Signal," and "Shoot Out in Chinatown" are all good rock and roll, but no much better really than "Cracklin' Rosie" or any other Neil Diamond song. "4 per cent Pantomime" starts off well, but gets bogged down by the presence of Van Morrison, who seems drunker than usual and postures absurdly for much of the song. Most...
...been generally dismissed in the West as superstitious folklore. Only since World War II has it become the subject of serious scientific inquiry in the Soviet Union, to a lesser extent in France, Germany and Britain. In the U.S., the treatment is available principally in San Francisco's Chinatown. Even in its homeland, acupuncture was being phased out by officials before the Communist takeover in 1949. Then Mao Tse-tung realized that it would be impossible to train China's 500,000 traditional practitioners in Western medicine. So he deliberately encouraged the nation's Western-trained doctors...
...Chinatown detail's first action -against the secret protection societies whose Mafia-like gang wars had terrorized Chinatown-was in the style of the times. The cops descended on tong headquarters with axes and smashed everything in sight. The subsidence of the tong wars was due less to the squad's enforcement than to battle attrition, but the Chinatown detail stayed. Ignorant of Chinese customs and language, the cops often reminded local residents of the tyrannical blue-jacketed officials of the Emperor's court. The detail went undercover-in heavy serge suits, bowlers and handlebar mustaches. Generations...
Last week, after 95 years, the Chinatown detail, already reduced to only six men, was dissolved. Some leaders of the law-abiding Chinese community felt that the detail represented a subtle discrimination. No other ethnic neighborhood has a special police force. Police Chief Alfred Nelder said: "The time has come when they should be more identifiable in a uniform." But one of the Chinatown detail men who put on the blues for the first time had another viewpoint: "It was a lot easier to be friends without the uniform...