Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison for violating his parole from an assault conviction. Cleaver became involved last April in a firefight during which the Panthers' 17-year-old treasurer was shot by Oakland policemen. Cleaver himself was wounded. As a result, his parole was revoked, and he was accused of assault with intent to commit murder. A lower court later freed him, ruling that Cleaver was being held because of his extremist political opinions. Last week, however, the California Court of Appeals reversed that ruling, granting Cleaver 60 days at liberty for appeals...
Harvard's varsity soccer team, intent on proving they are a better squad than the one which played the University of Connecticut to a disappointing 2-2 tie last Saturday, travels down river for its annual picnic with M.I.T. this afternoon...
...traditional standards, academe would not seem to be Eldridge Cleaver's bag. Yet he does have something to teach. Cleaver, who has spent nearly twelve years in California prisons for such crimes as assault with intent to kill, is the author of Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic on the Negro experience in America. He is also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester...
Imbalance of Firepower. Cairo's evident intent was to restore Egypt's status among its Arab neighbors as their leading belligerent, and to answer Jordan's complaint that it has borne the brunt of Israeli reprisals. Egypt's newly aggressive stance indicates that its rehabilitated armed forces, if not yet ready for another war, are now confident enough to challenge the Israelis shot for shot at times...
Targets does make one sorry improvement on life, however. Bobby kills far more bystanders than Whitman did. The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer-Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence. Unfortunately, it is a record made to be broken...