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...expected to engage in "querulous complaint" about their own regimes. Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, a member of the black congressional caucus, wondered if Agnew was suggesting that black Americans should fight racism in the U.S. in the manner of Jomo Kenyatta, who was convicted of leading the bloody Mau Mau uprisings in Kenya before independence...
...turned out to be a very well connected young woman. She is the daughter of a senior civil servant who works for South Viet Nam's Senate chairman, and is the girl friend of an army major. She lived in a house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces of heroin-about which Mau claimed to know nothing. A week later, Pham Chi Thien, another pro-administration deputy, was caught red-handed...
Once a quiet, respected expert on Melville and Hawthorne, Franklin has in recent years parlayed a long-bubbling political concern into a full-blown Communist analysis of literature as well as everything else. As a Maoist with newly developed Mau Mau disruptive instincts, he and 30 followers heckled Henry Cabot Lodge so ferociously during a January campus appearance that the former U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam was unable to deliver his speech until the next...
RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS by Torn Wolfe. 153 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
That was "mau-mauing." Chameleon-voiced as usual, and still given to Homeric catalogues and hang-ten metaphors, Wolfe inhabits an imaginary mau-mau character as he gleefully recalls some of the finer techniques. First, aspect: "You go down there with your hair stickin' out!" Second, mien: "Don't say nothing. You just glare." Then, tactics−which include bringing along some ringer Samoans who all look ten feet tall. One of Wolfe's master mau-mauers, like some Pied Piper of litterbugs, threatens to devastate city hall at the head of a horde of kids...