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...Dreamlands his fathers had. Dreamland focused on his friend Jimmy Seabolt, dead at 18 three days before high school graduation in the hot auditorium of the high school named after his great-grandfather's friend and commanding officer Stonewall Jackson, dead in a low-rent poolhall called Syl's Place because two men from the same refrigerator assembly line in Akron had come to visit relations in West Virginia and in an argument shot Jimmy, leaving Bell to identify the body...
Bennie Brody, an SYL member, said yesterday, "The conference is a design to make U.S. African policy more lucrative for American business interests...
Brody said the SYL invited other organizations such as the Committee Against Racism and the South African Solidarity Committee to participate in a "democratically-organized" Committee Against Apartheid, but that none of the organizations had responded...
...SYL was not invited to join the coalition because of their "divisive tactics," Seidman said, and added that the SYL attempted to monopolize past Solidarity Committee meetings. She said the SYL deliberately scheduled their Monday night meeting to conflict with that of the Committee...
Brody said the SYL called for a "unified front" that no single group would dominate, adding that "All organizations can unite against apartheid, regardless of their specific political views...