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...turned out. One evening in February 1971, the acting Tocumen transit chief, Joaquin Him Gonzales, a baseball addict, drove into the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone to see a local game, and the feds pounced. Flown to the U.S. and tried in Dallas, Him is serving a five-year rap for narcotics conspiracy in a Texas jail. Washington has ignored the protests of Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos and his brother Mois?...
...Manhattan's Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, clinic workers include teen-agers like Kathy Hull, 17, who gets course credits at her Brooklyn high school for volunteering. Chocolate cookies are passed around at the rap sessions that patients attend before they are examined and given contraceptives; boy friends are invited to the meetings and may even be present at the pelvic examinations if their girl friends agree. Said one who did: "He held my hand, and I was glad he cared enough to be there...
...McGovern from his zealous admirers and his greater reliance on older veterans have had a negative impact. "There is some feeling that the campaign has got so big that it's lost its direction, if not its soul," he says. "A volunteer can no longer run up and rap with McGovern in a hotel lobby for five minutes the way he used to. In the next few weeks, we have to get the message across to the grass-roots workers that they will be needed," says Hart. "If they think we don't need them, then they...
Malcolm's new ideas were to profoundly influence young black leaders in America. The documentary includes clips from speeches by Stokely Carmichael, H. "Rap" Brown, and Jesse Jackson that illustrate Malcolm's influence on their thinking. "No one has fought for civil rights." Malcolm says in the film. "They have begged for civil rights." That speech is followed by scenes of armed black students leaving a Cornell building...
...proud of my self-demeaning, two-faced accomplishments, but this behavior is just a microcosm of the group behavior the black man is relegated to in this society. For I am neither Martin Luther King nor H. Rap Brown. I don't think every white man is a devil, nor do I think every black man is an angel. I wasn't raised to think either way, nor has my life led me to believe otherwise. If that makes me "a Tom", so be it. If it makes me a black militant. I guess I'm one. I am convinced...