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The Black Biweekly Newsmagazine ENCORE American & Worldwide News A Tanner Publicaion Ida Lewis Editor Best Sellers FICTION 1 - Oliver's Story, Segal (1 last week) 2 - Falconer, Cheever (2) 3 - The Crash of '79, Erdman (4) 4 - Trinity, Uris (3) 5 - How to Save Your Own Life, Jong (5) 6 - The Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum (6) 7 - Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (7) 8 - The Valhalla Exchange, Patterson (8) 9 - Condominium, MacDonald 10 - East Wind, Rain, Nash (10) NONFICTION 1 - Roots, Haley (1) 2 - Passages, Sheehy (2) 3 - Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 4 - Changing, Ullmann (4) 5 - The Gamesman, Maccoby (6) 6 - Haywire, Hayward (5) 7 - The G [[obsured]] Always Greener over [[obsured]] [[the rest is illegible]] [[article mostly obscured]] Pa. Paul Special Jeune A. Gemini N London, Special Proj James A. Le Advertising Derral Bar Norma Le Mark D. Producti Marion Circula John M Circu Wilfr Adm Mil Co Ge [[article]] IN FOCUS The Aftermath of 'Roots' [[image - black and white photograph of an African-American woman]] For eight consecutive nights in January, 80 million Americans shared an extraordinary experience: the viewing of "Roots", the saga of a Black American Family. The institution of slavery was the focus, an African freedman turned American slave its central figure. The human tragedy of slavery that unfolded before the viewing audience had no parallel in previous television dramas. "Roots" was a mind-boggling exposé of man's inhumanity to man, a bewildering and devastating lesson of what happens whe[[text cut off]] devil is dethroned and man takes his place. But what happens now? What impact will "Roots" have on [[text obscured]] alike, who have inherited and suffered through the [[text obscured]] "Roots" raise our consciousness, and if so, what meaning [[text obscured]] experience provoke in us a will to change our attitudes [[text obscured]]ove race relations and living conditions, or will we [[text obscured]] onsibilities by saying, 'Slavery had nothing to do [[text obscured]] and it has no relevance today."? [[text obscured]]tution of slavery is gone, let us hope fo[[text obscured]]utions, in the North and [[text obscured]] [[/article]] [[article]] SR Books From the Seed of Kunta Kinte Roots by Alex Haley Doubleday, 569 pp., $12.50 Reviewed by Larry L. King Five years ago, at a writers' convocation in Chicago, I chanced to sit for dinner near a loquacious black man, who almost immediately launched into a non-stop two-hour narrative of his astonishing and painstaking search to trace his family back to its African origins. I was spellbound by Alex Haley's story (which he has told more than 1,000 times from public platforms, to say nothing of how many other unsuspecting diners he may have ambushed), and, at its conclusion, I naively hoped aloud that the author would let me know when his book would be published. It proved entirely unnecessary for Mr. Haley to send me a postcard. Alex Haley's Roots, indeed, is being touted as the Big Book of this bicentennial year. Some 200,000 hardback copies are in print; the film is in the can for a multi-part network-television special, and one can only imagine how many millions of copies Roots may sell in paperback [[text cut off]] nice to see Haley [[text cut off]] years of [[text cut off]] John Waller. After attempting to run away four times and after suffering punishments including the brutal amputation of half his right foot, the troublesome slave was deeded to another (Dr. William) Waller. In time Kunta Kinte resigned himself to a weary accommodation of the realities — though never to a spiritual acceptance of slavery — and became the buggy driver for Dr. Waller on his house calls to the plantations. In middle age, he married the cook of the master's big house, a woman known only as Bell, and produced a daughter, Kizzy. Kunta Kinte was careful to teach a smattering of African words and something of his heritage to Kizzy, who, in turn, passed the information along to her own children. 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