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HIDE FOX, AND ALL AFTER by RAFAEL YGLESIAS 203 pages. Doubleday...
However, Jonathon Jackson did not believe that this common outlaw arrangement could ever be consumated. He did not believe that his brother would ever leave prison alive. He was right, but he himself died in the parking lot of the San Rafael courthouse...
...Rafael incident--regardless of whether it was an appropriate tactic--illustrates the loyalty George Jackson was able to inspire. Though most of the coverage given to it by the Establishment media focused upon the bloodshed that resulted from Jonathon Jackson's cool arrogance. George Jackson, his mother, and people who knew the specifics of the case or were themselves prisoners were struck more by the motive than the result of the action...
Although the San Rafael incident failed to free George Jackson and the other Soledad Brothers, it did rivet national attention on their case and on George Jackson as a man. Through this attention Jackson's reputation among prisoners spread through the joints across the country...
Until recently, Venezuela, the world's largest oil exporter, remained immune to this nationalistic fever. Now it, too, is succumbing. Last week President Rafael Caldera signed into law a bill nationalizing natural gas. Foreign participation in ownership of banks in Venezuela has been restricted, and a new law setting more stringent standards for investments from abroad is in the offing. But for U.S. investors the most worrisome measures are those that the government has directed toward its foreign-supervised oil concessions...