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South Vietnam is experiencing a new broad-based anti-American rebellion-blacked out by the press-that is "the most significant political event since the Tet offensive," a former Harvard teaching assistant recently expelled from Vietnam claimed here yesterday...
...classes and interests." Changing them, Marcuse implies, will take "preparation, organization, mobilization." By shunning the necessities of power, Reich merely "transfigures social and political radicalism" into the toothless utopianism of "moral rearmament." Greening, declares Marcuse, should forthwith be dismissed as a cop-out-the "Establishment version of the great rebellion," not the real...
Pocketbook Rebellion. Elsewhere, less obviously inflammatory grants have provoked similar reactions. A 1968 grant to the Black Unity League in Louisville ran into resistance after three leaders of the group were charged with conspiracy to blow up oil storage tanks during a riot. Louisville Bishop C. Gresham Marmion asked that the grant be deferred until the three had been tried, but Leon Modeste, the black layman who directs the Special Program, made the grant on schedule. In North Carolina, a $30,000 grant to the Malcolm X Liberation University created a furor when the local bishop was denied a voice...
Even in states and cities where there is no major disagreement about specific grants, the pocketbook rebellion has been sharp. Gaps between diocesan pledges and quotas for 1970 set by the last General Convention were impressive even on a local scale: $425,000 below quota in New York City, $239,000 in Los Angeles, $146,000 in Dallas. In all, the pledges were more than $3.5 million below the national budget quota of $14.7 million. Modeste was undisturbed. In his official report last March, he had written that "the Church, the temporal, institutional body of Christ, must be willing...
...fictitious Lesser Antillean island of Queimada (Portuguese for "burn") in the 1830s. Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is an adventurer employed by the British Admiralty to foment a revolution in the Portuguese colony. Walker realizes that the island's blacks are too downtrodden to grasp political rebellion, so he invites them to participate in something they can appreciate: a bank robbery. He baits a strapping porter named José Dolores (Evaristo Marquez) to anger, then decides he is the man to lead the black bandits. With Machiavellian guile he hides the bandits in a jungle village, reveals their location...