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...perspectives to the outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses into the personal lives of renowned families such as Edward R. Murrow provided in his "Person-to-Person" series, or the televised tragedies of political assassinations, the airwaves...
...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...
...Cleaver proved a somewhat difficult guest. Neighbors complained about all-night parties and loudspeakers blasting out hard rock; the puritanical regime disapproved of the hashish smoking by some members of Cleaver's 15-member entourage, and were especially dismayed when Cleaver took up with a teen-age Arab girl called Malika while his wife Kathleen was away...
...regime kept its complaints more or less to itself, but Cleaver did not. When the Algerian government showed no intention of letting the Panthers get their hands on the Delta ransom, Cleaver dashed off an open letter to President Boumedienne. "We must have the money," he told his host, "no ifs and buts about the point." The "expropriation" of the aircraft was an "internal problem between the American people themselves, to be settled by them and not others who are incidentally involved...
...same time, Algeria is anxious to maintain its revolutionary image, especially among the black countries to the south, and has welcomed not only the Black Panthers but a score of other revolutionary groups, including the Committee for the Liberation of the Canary Islands. Boumedienne thus could not simply boot Cleaver out of the country without some diplomatic embarrassment...