Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symbol of Delta Airlines. Inside the suitcases was a cool $1,000,000 in $50 and $100 bills paid out by Delta on July 31 to three men and two women who skyjacked the airline's Flight 841 and flew to Algiers to join Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver's "Afro-American Liberation Army...
...return of the money last week, witnessed by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell,* marked the latest setback for Cleaver in his rapidly worsening relations with his Algerian hosts. Cleaver had been welcomed as a revolutionary hero in 1969, after jumping bail and evading arrest on charges arising from a 1968 Panther shootout in Oakland, Calif. The government of President Houari Boumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Biar and granted him an allowance of $500 a month. Cleaver adorned the villa with two brass plaques, each engraved with...
...moral essays (Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time) personalized the abstractions of racism with passion and high intelligence. Yet a middleman runs the risk of being caught between both ends. Liberals eventually tired of having their noses rubbed in their own hypocrisy. Radical brothers like Eldridge Cleaver charged Baldwin with caring more about personal needs than black liberation. Indeed, the sad irony of Baldwin's success is that it is based on terms laid down by white society before many black leaders had redefined the terms of success with their blood...
...assembly to impose a tax freeze in Illinois; it is hoped that the move will become a rallying point for the taxpayers. "The crisis has come," says Robert Creamer, CAP coordinator. "The solution now is to quit tinkering with the system. We've got to use a meat cleaver instead...
...self-satisfied feelings of middle and upper-class audiences--who are as statistically as racist as Archie--but do not express their bogotry in such raw terms. Perhaps it is all right to have Archie worry about the 'coons' moving into his neighborhood, but let's also have Beaver Cleaver's father express concern about 'that colored doctor' moving in next door...