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Former Black Panther to Speak On Feminism and Civil Rights...
Kathleen N. Cleaver, a former leading activist of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on feminist and civil rights issues later this month...
...since the dead sea Scrolls has anything found in a cave caused so much excitement. The paintings and engravings, more than 300 of them, amount to a sort of Ice Age Noah's ark-images of bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, of a panther, an owl, even a hyena. Done on the rock walls with plain earth pigments-red, black, ocher-they are of singular vitality and power, and despite their inscrutability to modern eyes, they will greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture...
...particular interest to Jean Clottes, France's foremost expert on prehistoric rock art, is the fact that, in contrast to previous cave artwork, images of predatory and dangerous species-bears, lions, rhinos, a panther and a hyena-far outnumber the horses, bison, deer and mammoths usually hunted by Stone Age people. "The paintings in this cave," he says, "will force us to change how we interpret Stone...
...legal assistance, and the lawyer agonized over taking the case. Cochran says what finally made up his mind was his sense of justice--a sense honed perhaps more on one particular loss than on all his dramatic victories. In 1972 Cochran's client, Elmer (``Geronimo'') Pratt, a Black Panther accused of murdering a white schoolteacher, was sent to prison for life; 23 years later, Cochran still maintains that Pratt was framed by the FBI, and is still fighting for his release. ``It taught me that you can work within the system and believe in it, but if the government wants...