Word: firebrands
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...estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand H. Rap Brown applied the match...
...Sissy Brown, we don't need you-go home!" chanted a quarter of the 200 Jacksonville Negroes gathered at a Black Power rally in a baseball park to hear Firebrand H. Rap Brown last week. Such open hostility was surprise enough for the youthful chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, but there was even more in store. Suddenly he found himself eyeball to eyeball with Florida's Republican Governor. Claude R. Kirk Jr., who had walked into the ballpark and up to the speaker's area at home plate...
Died. Shukri el Kuwatly, 76, Syrian nationalist, a hawk-faced firebrand who fought against Turkish rule before World War I, then against the French until independence in 1941, two years later became Syria's first President, only to be overthrown in 1949 and forced into a five-year exile after which he returned as President until 1958 when he and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser merged their nations into the long-cherished but ill-fated United Arab Republic; of a heart attack; in Beirut...
...Diplomatic Nose. The Russian embassy in Peking bore the brunt of the Chinese assaults. Since Chinese students and Russian police clashed two weeks ago in Red Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a nonstop "witches' sabbath" of "violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge on the Soviet people." Dancing around a bonfire, the demonstrators stuck effigies of Brezhnev and Kosygin to crosses and set them afire, railed at the Soviet embassy staff cowering inside as "filthy swine, hyenas, rascals and scoundrels." The nearly...
...father's twelve-year tenure, ordered top-level hearings on charges that Wilson was "bringing discredit" on the union. When 300 of Wilson's men showed up carrying protest placards (sample: "Get your hands off our throat"), the hearings petered out. Anything but subdued, the San Francisco firebrand planned to run for international vice president...