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...riots, which Jesse Jackson called "the most bitter and mean I've ever been in," the Chicago activist warned that "Miami cannot be isolated. The storm clouds are rising and we blacks need help." Warned Arthur Barnes, president of the New York Urban Coalition: "You can stretch a rubber band just so far and then it breaks...
...party organizations, so I worked as a laborer for under $50 a month in a coffee factory. When you apply for a better job you must have proof of revolutionary activities. When they fired me as a computer expert, I got so desperate I bought a rubber inner tube and I was going to float across to Florida. But I was afraid. My father believed in the revolution. Now he weeps...
...ambition of Brzezinski to outshine Kissinger. He is still annoyed that when both were teaching at Harvard, Kissinger was granted tenure and he was not. Princeton Professor Richard Falk recalls a dinner held by journalists toward the end of the Ford Administration at which someone showed up wearing a rubber mask grotesquely caricaturing Kissinger's features. Brzezinski put it on and laughed and laughed. "He couldn't stop," recalls Falk. "It was surreal...
...mist settled into rain, and The Garage, a bit to the right--neck bend necessary--conjured smells of rubber tire. Perne in a gyre. Do we dare remember the burden of the past? Rain resolved into puddles, 7:30 a.m., an hour and a half more to the burden bestowed by Weimar--or was it Bismarck?--no, his eyes waxed yellow, his urine bilious. Hitler would have to wait...
Mugabe's goals will be especially hard to achieve in the wake of a ruinous war. The country is virtually bankrupt and in debt to white-ruled South Africa for $350 million. The war turned nearly 850,000 into homeless refugees, many of whom live in the rubber-tent slums of urban shanty towns. An extra 170,000 refugees remain in Mozambique and Zambia. More than half the schools have been closed, and nearly 420,000 school-age blacks are uneducated. A third of the 3 million African-owned herd has been lost through disease and theft. The normally...