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...each weekday morning, the asphalt playground of Franklin Elementary School in Oakland swarms with some 900 boys and girls shooting baskets, playing tetherball and skipping rope. This large number of children are not at Franklin for a summer recreation outing. They are at morning recess in Franklin's year-round school, one of three such programs in the Oakland unified school district, and one of 394 year-round education projects that are nourishing at scattered locations in schools across the country...
ARRESTED. Huey P. Newton, 43, co-founder of the Black Panthers, the violence- and faction-ridden black militant organization that enjoyed a radical-chic vogue in the 1960s and '70s; on charges that he and an associate embezzled as much as $67,000 in federal and state funds; in Oakland. The money was allegedly taken from a community education and nutrition program the Panthers operated from 1973 to 1983. A post-arrest police search of Newton's home turned up burglary tools, a loaded .45-cal. automatic and a shotgun, for which he also faces charges...
DIED. FRED KOREMATSU, 86, Japanese American whose refusal to report to an internment center became a haunting symbol of civil rights repression during World War II; of a respiratory illness; in Larkspur, Calif. In May 1942, the Oakland, Calif., welder resisted pleas from compliant friends and declined to be sent to a camp. Eventually arrested, Korematsu lost a Supreme Court challenge to the policy, but in 1983 newly discovered documents showing the government had lied to the high court led to the overturning of his conviction. He later helped win reparations for internees and was awarded the Medal of Freedom...
There's joy in Packerville. In a deal to be made official this week, Green Bay's NFL archrival, the Minnesota Vikings, will trade Randy Moss, the greatest and arguably most troublesome wide receiver in team history, to the Oakland Raiders. Minnesota gets linebacker Napoleon Harris plus two draft picks in return for Moss, whose teammates have grown weary of his rock-star antics--in January during a play-off win against the Packers, Moss pretended to drop his pants and moon the Green Bay crowd (the fans are known for mooning the buses of opposing teams). Maybe...
...opening of “F.K.O.” sounds suspiciously like an overplayed insurance commercial, and mostly instrumental exercises “The Hook” and “Eyewash,” while pleasant enough, sound like mediocre Múm outtakes that were accidently sent to Oakland instead of Iceland...