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...faculties were tremendous. Ralph Bunche, Arthur Davis and Alain Locke reigned at Howard, and the student body of Lincoln boasted Thurgood Marshall, not to mention the future presidents of Kenya and Nigeria. But with the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the need for Black colleges seemed to diminish, and the top Black minds began to join faculties and student bodies at formerly all-white institutions...
...during the 1930s and '40s, he worked for a time as a singer and songwriter. His eclectic, not to say bizarre, career has also included stints as co-owner of the New Orleans Buccaneers franchise in the American Basketball Association, an activist for victims of the Biafran war in Nigeria and, briefly, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party in 1980 (he turned down the nod, he says, because the party was too right wing even for him). A New York University dropout, Downey once spent two months in jail for passing a bad check, an incident he mentions freely...
...page said that notes such as "Check outthose babes from Nigeria," "Look at EI Salvador'slegs," and "Do you want to go out for cocktails?"were among the communiques...
...General William Odom became assistant chief of staff for intelligence in late 1981, he argued persuasively that ISA was needed to fill gaps in the CIA's activities. Its personnel grew from about 50 at the start to 283 in 1985. At its peak it had agents in Morocco, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan and some ten Latin American countries. In Panama, for example, it operated a refrigeration company that served as a front for its agents. One ISA mission was to map out the routes U.S. rescue teams would take to reach American embassies likely to be seized by terrorists...
Most well-drafted constitutions of this century -- those of India, Nigeria and Liberia, for example -- have separated economic rights from political rights and placed them in different sections. Political rights are justiciable. Economic rights are "aspirational" or "programmatic," which is touching but perhaps no more than that. Aspirational clauses are impossible to enforce unless the government runs the economy. Food, jobs, shelter and other needs of that kind are most acute in countries that can least afford to supply them, however handsomely a constitution is composed. Besides, countries like Liberia and Nigeria may cherish the most articulate aspirations...