Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK JOURNAL (Shown on Wednesdays). This week the magazine program includes a look at all-black Roosevelt City, outside Birmingham; a report on Howard University's research on sickle-cell anemia, the debilitating blood disease indigenous to the Negro; interviews with Actor William Marshall and Playwright Ed Bullins, with an extract from the latter's A Son Comes Home; and a fascinating look at children's games compiled by Leon Bibb...
...British and Malayan forces. The drive was a notable success, often wistfully compared with the considerably different results in Viet Nam. But the Communists have never completely abandoned the field. Going underground, pro-Mao Communists have infiltrated trade unions and set up cover organizations and political parties. Worried officials report that in Sarawak, bordering Indonesian territory, Communists have successfully penetrated the whole fabric of society, from political parties to schools. In some rural areas, agents are openly training youths in armed guerrilla warfare...
...possible Middle East settlement between Egypt and Israel-and the talk was kept aloft by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. Such hopes, of course, had been raised many times since last summer's Arab-Israeli war, and never came to anything. This time, diplomats in London reported that the Egyptians had informed United Nations Mediator Gunnar Jarring that, if Israel withdrew its forces from the Sinai Peninsula under the terms of last November's U.N. resolution, they would permit a U.N. peace-keeping force to occupy the territory. The report took on added interest when Nasser flew...
While there was no government reaction in Jerusalem, Israeli officials tended to dismiss the report as simply "good public relations," and restated their position that no peace is possible unless the Egyptians negotiate directly with them. Many observers believe that it was the May 1967 withdrawal of U.N. troops from Sinai and Gaza at Nasser's request that led to the war, but the question of U.N. troops is now only one of the problems to be dealt with in any peace negotiations. And before the troops return, the U.N. would certainly seek assurances that they would...
Commercials also have deeper, more serious impact. In a discussion of the causes of last year's ghetto riots, the Kerner Report suggested that the enticements of TV commercials, "endlessly flaunted before the eyes of the Negro poor and the jobless ghetto youth," were an important inducement to the state of unrest. Opinion Researcher Mervin Field goes so far as to suggest that commercials constitute "a looter's shopping list...