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...Western hostages held by the fedayeen since their jet airliners were hijacked three weeks ago. Moving through the battered New Camp, a detachment suddenly heard shouts from a locked house: "We are foreign hostages. Help, help! Don't shoot!" Eight Britons, six Swiss and two West Germans were freed. Soon afterward the guerrillas, on their own accord, released 32 more hostages, leaving six Americans still unaccounted for at week...
Another Panther woman, Frances Carter, is presently free. After serving several months in jail, Frances Carter was ordered freed on bail by a Federal court which declared there was not enough evidence against her to justify her detention. When she refused to testify, she was again jailed, for contempt of court. After having served a total time of five and a half months, she was granted a satisfactory immunity, agreed to testify, and was freed...
Author Charlie Gillett begins his story back in the '40s, when the rhythm-and-blues musicians who sang about "rock and roll" were talking about loving, not music. It took some shrewd record producers and a Cleveland disk jockey named Alan Freed to make the term-and the music itself-acceptable to a larger, white audience. The sound came off the streets and was segregated as carefully as the people who listened...
...record company (Columbia, RCA Victor, Decca, Capitol). Shamelessly, the majors scoured the catalogues of small, regional record companies for top-notch rock and roll songs, then rerecorded them in what the trade calls "cover" versions, using their own stars. Shamefully, most of the radio disk jockeys-with exceptions like Freed -obliged the big companies by playing their issues. In the end, though, both the record companies and the DJs were foiled. "The audience was determined to have the real thing," writes Gillett, "not a synthetic version of the original. Independent companies, sensing this desire, were eager to satisfy...
...release of some women and children from Amman's hotels. They also acquiesced in a firm bargaining position, which had already been worked out by the P.L.O.: to hold only Israelis "with military capability" for a separate deal involving Arab prisoners in Israel. All others could be freed in return for hijackers held in Europe...