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PAGE 20ureensourg \inu.j «#«iyReviewsmg trial).Walter Wisniewski (UPI)gen1C (Siege, by Edwin CorleythisiStein and Day. $6.95)1ITHThis novel tells what happens when a well-trained Negro as-antofort— --------, , . th-niMiiiw sault force, controlled by an im-Haiby H Kap from a “blood” hanging out on dice among blacks thtmstl u hitlered former Marine general.w.mtifc tn an acrcTrpsmive hnw li ehter-skinned Negroes tun ____ , pnmhat vpfpranc' Die Nigger Die:'Brown.-• (Dial. $3.95)H. Hap Brown’sabout the chances forstreet corners to an aggressive how 1 ighter-skinned Negrot■ s can myde up of COmbat veteranslit* SOm Vbitterness belling blacks, the former chair- ciety and look down onFand assertive spokesman for re- assimilate better into white so- financed by African states., ... . . , *________uorm innL- Hnwn on then u i n*__onblack- man of the Student Non-violent blacker brothers.white harmony in America is Coordinating Committee (SNCC)easy ‘to understand. In his ‘ po-takes over the Island of Manhattan and holds it for ransom.pagtoWe must learn that Black is goai: To force the U. S. JapArthe skill-weaves his persistent message not a color but the way you g0vernrnent f0 give Americanthat black men must not in any think. he says, deriding natura Negroes an industrialized coast-wav submit to white America's haircuts that hold unnatural, un- can have for ^ejrHtieal autobiography.4jdly and forcefully details the , .lehumanizing experience of be- technique of cutting them down black minds.mg black in the United States, by making them Throughout a pickup narra- lower case), live of his gradual development* •negroes” lt;hisBrown glosses over his activi-wci twu. ties in Cambridge. Md.. that ledHe talks also of color preju- to his indictment for arsonandJITH THE NEWS% * * •JDAYTHE. %GREENSBURGDAILYNEWS\ov\ROVIDING MORE COMF1ri'OVERAtATIONJ1AT1COLIII\Rlt;PRESS:lt;t. ..1/al state they can have for theirown country.Without giving away any of the plot, this is a frighteningly realistic first novel detailing, step by step, how and why a Negro revolution could be plannedand executed.Corley’s snowballing storyline weaves just barely fictional characters into a day-after-to-morrow narrative that stretchesfrom Saigon to Watts to the blasted girders of the BrooklynBridge.The story is laced with the currently popular ration of sex. black jingoistic jargon, and, in any other era. implausible plot gimmicks. But in a decade when a huge combat force trained ona secret base for the Bay of Pigs invasion, there is no rea-, son to doubt an “Afro-American Liberation Army” couldn’t be trained in the same way.The message is obvious: Effective programs to bring j American Negroes into the ; mainstream of American society may have been ignored too long. On this hinges the book’s climax. When faced with a black militant shooting war. can the ; average Negro stay cool, and :can the white community from I the President on down keep its head?It’santiDthen’tIt’sberTtabgenmclNatthriwhlt;191'whlt;em I tiarIfproratlt;accphenocfictLorondGood questions from a book undoubtedly headed for the bestseller list.j*rDon Mullen (UPI)pic Iiioilt; wh(at 1IiherThehis»ruir betl♦ASfvlps of Roriipaf Will hu Sn
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Tue, May 20, 1969
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