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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marley, you see, is a Rastafarian--one of about 144,000 in Jamaica, or so they claim. Rastas believe, as Marley sings, that "life is worth much more than gold, it's pathetic the whole world is in a rat race, talk is cheap," that ganja is the healer of nations and the oppressors of the Rastas are devils. He also believes that he and his fellow Rastas are the lost tribes of Israel and that one day they must return to Ethiopia, their homeland, to live in peace...
Marley sometimes drops his refusenik anarchism. Take for instance the 1976 elections. Michael Manley, the socialist leader, talked Marley into giving a free concert in his behalf. Three days before the concert Marley was relaxing in his mansion-commune with the whole band, friends, family and hangers-on, when two cars drove up and unloaded several men armed with sub-machine guns and automatic pistols. A bullet grazed Rita Marley's head as she tried to escape with five children in tow. One gunman, a young and jittery kid of about sixteen, pointed his weapon at Marley and sprayed...
...bill, sponsored by councilor Saundra Graham, is designed to help the elderly because "they have been hardest hit by the whole process," Graham said...
...hand, is ambitious: a boy with a future, a man with a vision. One of the new breed of Australian directors aiming for international fame, Noyce plucks modest Maguire from his fictional existence in fifties Australia, and saddles this potato-faced sap with the trials of the decade--a whole generation's troubles weighing down on his unathletic shoulders...
...Rockefeller, West Virginia Governor and great-grandson of Standard Oil's John D.: "I don't have a whole lot of faith in what the oil companies...