European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller reviews once a Panther by Nelson Pacheco Bendan press. The author says its a nostalgic look Back at the lives loves successes and problems of growing up in an overseas military High school in the Early 1960s. Really its a Limp attempt to transport the wonder years set Ting to a Dodds boar Ding school in France a specifically the Poitiers american High  Book might Appeal to someone who attended such a school but the shallow recollections Wilt keep the attention of few others. Pacheco a retired air Force lieutenant colonel attended the school located in the Loire Valley about 120 Miles Southwest of Paris from 1958 to. 1962. He said his inspiration to write the Book came from his children a experiences in attending overseas schools and How similar those experiences were to his own. He said he also wanted to get his memories Down on paper since that was an Era the world will probably not see again. True. In 1958, America was charging toward revolutionary social changes. Hie cold War was on. The a bomb was real threat of nuclear War reigned and racial tensions continued to build Pacheco fails to note any of those issues except. For a few comments on race relations a a he said his fellow students were racist but not prejudiced a and that terms such As a a Wop and a a spice were used in jest and thus weren t a concern. Here a the flaw throughout the Book its approach is a just the facts  few feelings. He wrote it As an observer not a participant even though he was the main character v you can order it from Bondan press . Box 16085, Arlington a. 22215-1085. The Cost is $10 plus $2 for mailing. A Cindy Killion staff writer the Shadow of the Panther Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in Amerl Ca by Hugh Pearson Addison Wesley. For readers who still believe in the Romance of the �?T60s, yet Are minimally open to reason and facts Pearson a Book on Newton and the Black panthers will come As a bracing experience. The publishers promotional material describes the Book As a Quot revisionist assessment a but that surely misses the Point of Pearson a achievement. Revisionism is an Effort to rearrange the empirical evidence in order to Challenge previously accepted historical interpretations. In the Case of the Black Panther party however there has never been a history worthy of the name. A courageous reporter named Kate Colemen did publish a Magazine article in the mid-1970s suggesting that Newton was a killer a Druggie and an abuser of women. She immediately had to go into hiding. Now an equally courageous Black writer has finally peeled away the remaining layers of myth. Pearson has managed to expose the sordid inner Workings of a gang of charismatic thugs who brilliantly used the appealing liberation St slogans of the 1960s As cover for their criminal behaviour. The author of this Book was 8 years old attending a predominantly White school on the outskirts of fort Wayne ind., when Newton and Bobby Seale organized the Black Panther party in Oakland calif., in 1967. Like Many other Young Middle class Blacks Pearson grew up captivated by the heroic images of the panthers often conveyed by the Liberal Media. Confession one of the first of the sympathetic articles on the panthers was written by me As an apprentice journalist working with the left Wing Pacific news service in California in 1990, Pear son decided to write a Book on the legacy of the by then almost defunct panthers this was shortly after Newton was shot Tod Eathon the mean streets of Oakland s Black ghetto a As he was trying to score some drugs. Pearson says that As he started his research he viewed the downward spiral of Newton from revolutionary hero to cocaine addict and Petty hoodlum a More As a political tragedy than a personal failing believing also that the panthers a had been railroaded out of existence by the american establishment that the party itself was not to blame for its  Pearson is an honest writer who allowed the facts to steer him away from his initial preconceptions. No doubt his suspicions were first aroused when he discovered that despite his impeccable credentials As a a a movement journalist most of the prominent White leftist supporters of the panthers declined to talk to him. By contrast Pearson found a number of exp anthers who had been treated brutally in the movement and were eager to have someone finally listen to their tales of horror. Judiciously using these survivor stories and checking them against newspaper accounts and court records Pearson is Able to puncture the Standard apologia of Panther supporters that the group s violence was a response to a dirty tricks by the local police or the Fri. In the midst of his violent crime spree Newton managed to talk or threaten his Way into a . In the history of consciousness at the University of California Santa Cruz. If not for his unfortunate encounter with a drug dealer Newton too might have reinvented himself As a talk show Host or a College professor. Only in America. Sol Stern new Day the conquering heroes by Peter gent Donald i. Fine. This Book while eventually playing out As a Standard thriller Aims to eviscerate College basketball much As gent s earlier North Dallas forty gutted professional football. Gent a former big ten basketball player and Dallas Cowboy knows the territory and can write about it convincingly. David do Watt Knoxville news Sentinel talk before sleep by Elizabeth Berg random House. Like the unabashedly sentimental film beaches in which a woman keeps Vigil Over  dying Friend or the buddy movie Thelma amp Louise wherein two to. Bust Herf tines share the open Road and a plunge to their death bergs first work of fiction celebrates the strength of women a Friendship in adversity and out of Iti in Berg s Book a loosely based on the death of one of  own friends several years Back and  own cancer diagnosis a four women rally around a fifth Friend whose doctors have Given  Only months to live. A Suzanne Curley new Day paperbacks needed the retirees activities office at in Ciurlik a Turkey is seeking paperbacks for its Community Rao Library. Those interested May mail books to Bob. Sisk Rao director pc 94, Box 2355, Apo a 09824. 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