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...America is just fighting this war so that the white man can put boo-coo money in his pocket," Pvt. Bruce Jessup of Washington, D.C., said in Pleiku. "He just lets you die so he can send his little war materials over here. To hell with this war. We should say, come on in. Ho Chi Minh, this is yours. You can probably do a whole lot better with drove a gas truck for the 815th Army Engineer Battalion...
There was even a sharp visual contrast between the two. Tuppeny in his blue blazer with the "U of P" in red on the pocket, stopwatch in hand. The technician. Authoritarian, McCurdy stood next to him in his grey sweatsuit, sweating. He had a beard on his face. For a Harvard fan, the contrast was easily categorized. They were crew coaches Joe Burk and Harry Parker, or even the scheming Lex Luther and Superman, who stood for truth, justice, and maybe even the American...
...plastic flight bag. Pointing a rusty revolver at a cable and switch that protruded ominously from his satchel, one of them shouted to the captain: "Change course or I'll press the switch and the plane will blow up!" With a small compass that he carried in his pocket, the hijacker made sure that the plane was really changing direction...
...chartered jets to bring in heavy air-conditioning equipment worth $30,800 from the U.S. Philips recalled its Dutch factory workers from their annual vacation so that it could complete a huge order for electronic equipment, including 60 monitors for a closed-circuit TV system and 1,500 pocket radio bleepers for the delegates...
White Identity. Perhaps because of its pocket-magazine size, Black World conveys a sense of compressed passion. Its articles, fiction and poetry seethe with resentment, with desire for identity, with rejection of the subhumanity of the ghetto. A short story in the August issue gives a chilling description of a group of neighborhood children watching and wisecracking as the mother of one of them makes it with her lover of the moment. There are occasional "how to" articles-how to establish a distinctively black system of education, how to develop a "black aesthetic"-but mainly the tone is exhortatory...