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...short time, Newton seemed to embody the spirit of ghetto uplift that the Panthers preached. After serving time in a celebrated case involving the shooting of an Oakland policeman, he earned a doctorate from the University of California. But after J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted the group, many of his fellow Panther leaders were killed, jailed or driven underground, and Newton's life returned to its meaner roots. Charges of murder and assault led to conviction for possessing a gun. There followed a string of drug offenses, drunk driving and embezzling $15,000 from a Panther-operated school...
...what lies in store is being published this week as August 1914 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 854 pages; $50 hardback, $19.95 paper). This novel first appeared in English in 1972; after his banishment from the U.S.S.R., Solzhenitsyn was free to explore new troves of archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic (ditto) career of Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister under Czar Nicholas...
...financial fantasy land. "Right now factory managers don't know when they're doing a good job. They can say they're profitable even though they're selling tractors for $2,000 when they should be selling them for $5,000," says Judy Shelton, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution in California and author of a new book titled The Coming Soviet Crash. But Moscow is cautious about letting plants determine prices for fear that the move would spark a burst of inflation and consumer outrage...
Stanford Daily reporter Jock Friedly presented The Crimson with his theory of the outcome of the Kennedy School dean search: Jeane L. Kirkpatrick will be appointed dean, and outgoing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 will head the Hoover Institute, a conservative think tank at Stanford. Kirkpatrick could not be reached for comment...
...truth is that Hoover loathed blacks and detested their leaders, and so did many of his men. According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings...