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Malik Hakim lay in his bed in the jail ward of Boston City Hospital. A young black woman sat in a chair beside him, her head and body bent forward as if to allow her to physically absorb what he was saying...
SINCE 1901, when the Swedish Academy chose the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and bypassed Leo Tolstoy, the awards have often been surrounded by controversy. There is still a furor over last year's pick, Soviet Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose works (Cancer Ward; The First Circle) expose the authoritarianism of Soviet life. Fearing that he would not be allowed back into the U.S.S.R., he has not dared travel to Stockholm to accept the award; and the Swedish embassy, fearing an adverse reaction from its Soviet hosts, refuses to stage a public ceremony for him in Moscow...
Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, and Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT, were also scheduled to appear for questioning yesterday. Popkin did not appear because his attorney was unable to accompany him and will appear today, instead. Chomsky was released from questioning pending a court hearing, which will take place today, on his motion to have his subpoena quashed...
Ralph "Stodie" Ward, the paper reports, a black Youth Recreation Coordinator, ran for City Council in 1965. Coates, who was running for a second term, was the only other black man in the race. The day the election results were announced, City Manager John Curry fired Ward and replaced him with a friend of Coates', Leroy Johnson...
Coates said in an interview that he felt the Phoenix story was "riddled with inaccuracies," but refused to comment any further. He said that he didn't know why Stodie Ward was fired, that he had "wondered why himself." "You'll just have to ask Curry," he added...