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...heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores and credit food markets where for half again...
...Bridge. In the workers' ghettos, King was sometimes ignored-or worse. He had difficulty in effectively organizing Chicago slum dwellers in 1966; militants in Harlem showered him with rotten eggs in 1965. Many radicals derided his pleas for nonviolence-though few were unmoved by his death, as was New York City's William Epton, who was convicted of conspiring to commit criminal anarchy for his part in the 1964 Harlem riots. "We don't mourn King," said Epton. "We saw him as an obstacle to the black liberation movement. We saw him as a fireman for Kennedy...
...been a friend of the U.S. and is about as remote from Viet Nam as any country can be, the Vietnamese war has poisoned Swedish-American relations. In the past few months, Swedish youths have broken windows in the U.S. embassy, smeared paint on the American trade center, hurled rotten eggs at an American diplomat and burned the U.S. flag. The entire nation applauded when Premier Tage Erlander-followed shortly by his three major opposition parties -declared his Social Democratic government's opposition...
...even here, even with rotten acoustics, a small stage, and dungeon-like atmosphere, the message of the Fish comes through. It's an easy message--one of love and feeling...
...always soaked, always miserable," he writes, describing the infantryman's lot, plodding through mud and swamps. "Your boots stink and your socks rot-and your feet rot if you aren't careful." Which goes to prove that there's more to say about one rotten sock in Viet Nam than a whole discotheque full of electric dresses...