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...system can cause the clenched fist of the movement to open itself in one of two ways, said William Kunstler last Saturday night-extended in brotherhood or curled around the trigger...
When he saw me, he smiled and chanted, in Chinese, "Long live Mao Tse-tung!" As he chanted, he punched through the sky with his right fist three times...
...strapping, bearded, 6-ft. Marshall is a magisterial figure in the pulpit. On his clerical robes, he wears the cross-in-the-fist button of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, and the black, red and green "liberation"* colors-which are evident elsewhere in the church: on a prayerbook on the altar, in a flag on the wall...
Today suspicion has replaced trust. U.C.'s own regents are curbing the university's traditional independence. The state's open hand with funds is clenching into a fist. For the first time in U.C.'s 102-year history, the regents have imposed tuition; by fall 1971, students will pay more than $600, twice the current so-called "fees." In 1968, the voters rejected U.C.'s request for a building bond issue. A decade ago, California ranked sixth in state support of higher education; as the '70s dawned, it had fallen to 28th...
...Fist Street was a very small, private, libertarian elementary school on New York's Lower East Side. It was run on a private grant at far less cost per child than of the public schools. The children were black, white, and Puerto-Rican, all from lower-income families in the area. A few were on the verge of expulsion from the public school system before they came to First Street; others were already out, and faced youth prisons if they couldn't make it there. At least one didn't make it at First Street-but most of the children...