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...anger is increasingly acute among L.A.'s blacks, who make up 12.6% of the county. Frank Haley runs a dry cleaners near Watts. Hispanics now make up one-third of his neighborhood. "It bothers me a lot," Haley says. "I see these Spanish coming in and buying businesses. They must be getting the money from somewhere." His theory: "This started after the [Watts] riots. I feel that the Government said, 'All right, we'll fix those blacks. We'll open up the border and move in Mexicans.' " The Asians are more roundly blamed. "We all looked up one day," says...
Maynard holds 79% of the paper's stock; the rest belongs to Los Angeles Attorney Paul Greenberg, a vice president at San Francisco's Shaklee Corp., who negotiated the deal. Directors include Maynard's wife, Journalist Nancy Hicks; Author Alex Haley (Roots); and former Movie Star and Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, who is a close friend of Maynard...
Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...
...logged twelve years and 500,000 miles tracing his roots back to Kunta Kinte, the Mandinka tribesman taken into slavery two centuries ago in West Africa. But Alex Haley, 60, had never met most of his living relatives. So plans began early this year for a mammoth July reunion. Some 300 people from 32 states and all branches of the family tree descended on Haley's sleepy home town of Henning, Tenn. There were teachers, farmers, service workers, ministers, musicians, many excitedly meeting for the first time. Some stopped off to visit family sites like the grave of Haley...
...sponsored two public events--a speech by a prominent Black physicist and a meeting of the Presidential appointed panel on Japanese-American internment--and published a new brochure for the Persia-Julian Black Students in Science Organization. The Foundation's 12-member Board of Associates boasts names like Alex Haley. Barbara Jordan and Beverly Sills, but two members contacted last month were not even aware of their affiliation...