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...reporting" but did not react to its criticism of him. Also holding his peace was Russell Oswald, who has written his own book-length account of what happened. Due to be published next month, it makes his case for doing "what I had to do" and argues that the revolt was carefully planned, at least in general terms, by a coalition of black and white radicals...
...eight hours after the attack on the royal plane, Oufkir had shot himself in the head at the King's palace at Skhi-rat. When word first broke, speculation was that he might have done so out of a sense of disgrace at having failed to prevent the revolt. Not so, charged Interior Minister Mohammed Benhima, revealing that one of the Gibraltar fugitives had implicated Oufkir. "It was a suicide of treachery," he said, "not a suicide of loyalty...
Young Rebel. Shortly after Goodman's birth in New York's Greenwich Village, his father deserted the family, a loss that Goodman later viewed as useful: "Remember, a good father can be difficult for a kid; he has nothing to revolt against." When the young rebel graduated from City College, in 1931, he was too poor to enroll in Columbia, so he bicycled there and sneaked into the lectures of Philosopher Richard McKeon. Later, he hitchhiked to free courses at Harvard...
...mysterious virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like slaves by a repressive government until one of them, named Caesar, leads an open revolt. Scenarist Paul Dehn sometimes lets his satire turn into sermonizing, but he also engineers a clever and jauntily cynical reversal of sympathies whereby audiences cheer the marauding apes in their campaign to overcome mankind...
Polaroid is interested in the world far beyond its immediate neighborhood. The company's community relations director, Robert Palmer, recently spent ten days helping mediate a prisoner revolt at Massachusetts' Walpole state prison, and has condemned as dehumanizing a proposed ID card system for Massachusetts welfare recipients-even though an ID system pioneered by Polaroid might well have been used. This year the company reached a longtime goal of employing one black in each ten jobs, about the same ratio as blacks in the total population...