Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleaver dropped from sight in late November, when he was scheduled to return to prison for a parole violation. He is believed to have left the United States that same month after shaving off his beard to alter his appearance. It has since grown back, and he seems to have gained weight in Havana. Pringle reported that Cleaver has toured Cuba, but has not yet met Premier Fidel Castro. Cleaver's presence has been ignored by the heavily censored Cuban press. He refused to say much after being discovered, but did tell Pringle that he was working...
Battle Plans. The police are moving in a number of ways to prevent violence. Programs of varying size and efficacy to improve police relations with the ghettos have been started in most cities. Los Angeles' hard-line chief Tom Reddin has left police work for television. Recruiting, particularly of black policemen, has been stepped up. Washington has added 500 men to its 3,600-member force and plans to add another 500. One hundred and forty of the latest 1,000 graduates of the New York Police Academy are black...
...distance that still separates the participants, but more important, it was a sign that each side has yet to render a final verdict on the other's proposal. After last week's session in the old Hotel Majestic, North Viet Nam's chief delegate, Xuan Thuy, left Paris for his first visit home since the talks began-doubtless to receive fresh instructions. Even so, both sides have already arrived at closer agreement on the principles of a settlement than they publicly acknowledge...
...surface, at least, his persistence brought the forms of peace no closer. North Vietnamese Spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le said that the two positions remained "as different as night from day." Still, U.S. negotiators noted that the session remained refreshingly free of propaganda blasts, and Lodge himself left convinced that "a basis now exists for productive discussions...
Last week the latest poll on the voting in the first round on June 1 gave Pompidou 41% of the vote and Poher 30%, a seven-point slippage for Poher. What the survey could not reflect was whether or not the voters of the left, who make up the balance of the electorate, will line up solidly against Pompidou in the runoff election that will probably be needed on June 15-and put Poher over...