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...disadvantaged for whom it has traditionally spoken. Stirring memories of the New Deal and New Frontier glory days, he set off a 43-minute, dancing-in-the-aisles demonstration that far exceeded in noise and enthusiasm anything the Carterites could stage. It was a purely emotional, if not mindless phenomenon. To the assembled delegates, it made little difference that many of the big spending programs he advocated seemed more responsive to the problems of the '60s, or even the '30s, than of the '80s. On this one night he was their man, and they cheered his every word...
What had propelled an influential Cabinet Minister into mindless crime may have been a hot temper and a weakness for strong drink. The night before the killing, Tekere allegedly had been partying with some ex-guerrillas near Stamford Farm. Somehow they got into an argument with the farm's caretakers, a group of black soldiers who had served in the white-officered Rhodesian African Rifles before independence. Tekere and his cronies returned with their guns the next day, evidently intending to teach the R.A.R. men a lesson. Apparently, Farm Manager Adams was shot to death while trying to call...
Investigators tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism...
...safe from the mindless spiral of violence
...says. Rivers, who--in every way--is alien to the largely middle-class Black community on the Yale campus, is also frustrated with the Black students. "People weren't willing to think critically about anything," he said recently. In the film Rivers is frustrated with Black students for playing mindless roles without thinking seriously about Blacks' position in society...