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There is something incredibly pat and wonderfully sappy about the George Foreman story, a sort of factual mockery of the best-known work of Sylvester Stallone. This guy was bad, as he himself put it. He kept a lion and a tiger because they were bad. He had 47 fights and knocked out 42 men. He took the world title by half killing Joe Frazier in 1973 and then lost it the next year in Zaire to Muhammad Ali, who could not have been brought down that night by a tank. "I be alright when the swelling goes down," Foreman...
...military problem even more serious than lack of manpower is absence of discipline: bloody transgressions by government forces have sorely aggravated tensions. The International Commission of Jurists reported early this year that in response to Tiger attacks, the army often "went berserk and resorted to arbitrary shootings and killings of Tamils." Last December, for example, after a soldier was killed in the northern Mannar district, his comrades went on a rampage, shooting anyone in sight and leaving more than 100 Tamil civilians dead. Tamil women have been raped, Hindu temples put to the torch. In all, the commission cited...
...outsider, to be Black in a white world. Baldwin believed you can't force society to change, that you have to change attitudes before you can change behavior. For this commitment to interracial brotherhood. Baldwin won Cleaver's decision and the label of "Pussycat" to Cleaver's self-proclaimed "Tiger...
...tiger has grown tired and has decided to struggle up in front of the white man's fire. Cleaver currently writes for stodgy publications like Buckley's The National Review. He roundly criticized Jesse Jackson's Presidential campaign, calling him a "ruthless politician on the make." Last year, he ran as a conservative independent in a race for the House of the Representatives in the eight district of California, hoping to split than Black vote with the incumbent Democrat. Ronald Dellums, and allow the Republican challenger to sneak in the back door. Along with the rest of his former opinions...
Baldwin was able to take the strain of being a Black writer in a white world precisely because he was not a tiger. He never expected a revolutoin. He knew that no amount of marching in the street or breaking storefront windows was going to complete the process of equal rights. He did not flee America out if some fawning, unconscious love for white European, as Cleaver claimed, but rather because he knew change was not going to come quickly and he didn't want to be destroyed by the disappointment that inevitably followed the hope of the sixties...