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Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall...
...Capitalism doesn't allow free thinking," Ture said, adding, "Capitalism misleads people. It makes them think there are just ends." And since man has an inclination toward justice, he can easily fall prey to capitalism, he added...
...Ture stressed the need for Black organization and political education during a speech delivered to about 300 at the Kennedy School Forum yesterday...
...Supreme Court had already applied First Amendment free expression to motion pictures, then to nearly any thing that called itself artistic expression. The watershed in the decline of standards, however, was 1968, when the Motion Pic ture Association replaced the old P.C.A. code with the G, PG, R and X system. According to Sullivan, film producers "decided, now that the kiddies were protected, anything goes for adults." Because TV had come to dominate family entertainment, movies went for specialized audiences. Then the new wave of "adult" films began entering American homes via network and cable...
...launched a ferocious propaganda campaign against the NATO missile proposals. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev declared that the Soviet Union would not "watch indifferently the efforts of the NATO militarists," but would be ready to "take the necessary extra steps to strengthen our security." In a loudly proclaimed peace ges-ture-a carrot to accompany the stick -the Soviets last month announced the withdrawal of some obsolescent tank divisions from East Germany...