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Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. was one of the most mysterious figures in the civil rights protests of the 1960s. A ne'er-do-well and braggart, he drifted from job to job, working as an ambulance driver, bartender and nightclub bouncer. But he also was the FBI'S most important informant on the Ku Klux Klan's violent activities in Alabama. Rowe provided the bureau with information on the Klansmen's beating of black Freedom Riders at a Birmingham bus depot in 1961. He tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went...
...addition, the destructive effects of Belgian colonialism on tribal life made a lasting impression on the son of a Polish patriot who had been jailed and exiled for his activities against Russian imperialism. During an overland trek from Matadi to Kinshasa, the Diary notes, he "met an off[ic]er of the State inspecting; a few minutes afterwards saw at a camp-[in]g place the dead body of a Backongo...
Exeter Theater - Exet er St. - Cat and Mouse, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Friday and Saturday midnight show - The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Màrquez ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke The World According to Garp, John Irving
More and more companies are preparing for the chance that their precautions may fail by buying K and R (for kidnaping and ransom) insurance policies sold by Lloyd's of London and some oth er companies, including several U.S. firms. Insurance officials do not speak much about this business, fearing that more countries will follow Italy in banning K and R policies on the ground that they encourage kidnapings. But some brokers say that sales of such policies on the London insurance market alone have more than doubled in the past two years, with as much...