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...public menace to put in prison-and found it maddeningly difficult to get him headed there. Since 1973, Nicky Barnes had been arrested for homicide, bribery, drug dealing and possession of dangerous weapons. But none of the charges stuck. Impressed by his apparent ability to beat any rap, blacks called him "Mr. Untouchable...
...came together loving one another." Jokes Cleaver: "He's the kind of man I used to put on my dart board." Colson, 45, a former White House aide who served seven months in jail for his part in Watergate, and Cleaver, 41, who still faces a murder rap for his part in a 1968 Black Panther Shootout, met a year ago at a religious gathering in Washington, where they discussed their recent conversions to Christianity. The pair appeared together again last week in Anaheim, Calif., at a "charismatic clinic" at Melodyland Christian Center, founded by Pastor Ralph Wilkerson...
...sights to TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce. Driving by one apartment building, Hickman recalled, "Until recently, the whores there had a ten-year-old boy acting as a lookout." Entering an "encounter parlor," he was greeted by a woman in halter and shorts-and told that she holds "rap sessions." Then why the mattress on the floor? "That's to make the customers comfortable," the woman explained. Replied Hickman: "It's easy to see you're trained therapists...
...Jewish rap groups against looking for God is foolhardy for the obvious reason that it implies that God is not to be found inside the rap groups specifically because they are Jewish. This is not true...
What I did say, and continue to believe, is that many Jewish young people's spiritual needs are not met in a purely cultural interpretation of the Jewish religious tradition. In this sense, a Jewish rap group does not touch the religiously meaningful core required by today's young people...