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Thus, it is of paramount importance for blacks to engage in scholarship. This scholastic engagement is undeniably valuable for blacks--culturally, politically and psychologically. Blacks will not only have firm representation in the production of scholarship, but more importantly, scholastic engagement will provide the black struggle with relevant knowledge and concrete strategies. As Fanon states, "The task of bringing the people to maturity will be made easier...by the high intellectual level of its leaders." This high intellectual level is necessary because the prerequisite of changing the world is understanding what it was, why it is what...
...success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the pupet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam, and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...
...audience was "the cream of Central Casting," said Bob Hope, adding: "This place looks like a living wax museum." The occasion: the 100th birthday of Adolph Zukor, who imported the U.S.'s first feature movie (Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt), and founded Paramount Pictures. "I don't see many movies today," said Zukor, hunched over his cane, "because my eyesight isn't too good. I would work in pictures today if I were a young man." Zukor accepted homage from people like Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Diana Ross and Michael Caine. There were rose petals...
...down the street with Bormann when both men disappeared. As for the other skull, the teeth resemble those of the Nazi leader, and there is a deformation over the right eye, where Bormann had a scar. German officials promised to announce the results of their examinations in mid-January. Paramount Pictures, planning a movie on Bormann's alleged escape, said it would go ahead no matter whose skull those workers found...
...until he specified his informants. In December 1971, Section 1070 was amended to shield former newsmen from contempt citations, but that same month, in upholding Older's decision, a state appeals court ruled that the "vital power of the court to control its own proceedings and officers" was paramount. If the Evidence Code interfered with that judicial right, the decision added, the code would be unconstitutional...