Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left three dead and five wounded. In New York City, where Black Muslims and various splinter organizations compete, a former bodyguard for Malcolm X, Charles 37X Kenyatta, was critically wounded this month. Kenyatta leads the Harlem Mau Maus. Less than a week later, Kenyatta's friend, Clarence 37X Smith, head of a group called the Five Percenters, was shot down and killed. A suspected Black Panther informer, Alex Rackley, was found tortured and shot to death recently in a Connecticut swamp...
Political Laundry. The McGovern group has angered local party chieftains by its failure to follow protocol in notifying them when it was holding hearings in their states and by its determination to change undemocratic processes of delegate selection. Texas' Governor Preston Smith, incensed when he learned from newspaper articles that McGovern was coming to Austin, fumed, "This is an absurd way of going about this." Democratic National Committeeman J. Marshall Brown of Louisiana was so infuriated at the commission's plans that he "ordered" McGovern to stay out of his state and sent Democratic National Chairman Fred Harris...
Campaigning for his creation, Prime Minister Ian Smith declared that "it virtually enshrines white supremacy, but it does it on merit, which no one can undermine." That view was disputed by a former Prime Minister, Sir Roy Welensky. He worried that "it will lead to eventual confrontation. It is a departure from representation based on merit to straight racial representation...
...every step on their road to independence their readiness to go to any lengths to assure their position. They have accepted some hardships resulting from international trade sanctions, though many of the sanctions have been bypassed through devious third-party transactions. Internally, unemployment among Africans has risen, but Smith has maintained employment for whites through government aid. For instance, he reactivated Rhodesia's Ford and British Motor Corp. assembly plants to produce new 1966 cars from a three-year-old supply of parts...