Word: addonizio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brace of revolvers. "We must make our own world, man," he wrote recently, "and we cannot do this unless the white man is dead. Let's get together and kill him." Yet when the fires started up this month in Newark, Jones got together with Mayor Hugh Addonizio and city leaders of both races to search for peaceful political solutions...
More Than Khe Sanh. In Newark, where in last summer's rampage 23 persons lost their lives and the authorities expended 13,319 rounds of ammunition, there were no casualties and only one shot was fired-by a policeman, as a warning into the air. Mayor Hugh Addonizio crisscrossed the riot area in an unmarked prowl car. Some 200 Negro youths wearing the pink, silver and white badges of the United Community Corp., Newark's antipoverty organization, also patrolled the ghetto-and to better effect. The kids made an impressive contribution to cool; so did a courageous "Walk...
Most all of the nation's big-city mayors were unreservedly enthusiastic about the report-particularly at the prospect of snagging more federal funds. "I have practically spent our city bankrupt trying to meet the problems in our community," said Newark's Mayor Hugh Addonizio on NBC's Meet the Press...
...most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative assistant to Mayor Addonizio. "Casuals who had never raised a voice in community affairs all of a sudden were spokesmen on television." TV newsmen disobeyed instructions to stay behind police lines. On one occasion, a policeman chasing a looter tripped over a television cable. "We're lucky his gun didn...
...Your biased story makes the poor white store owners who overcharge and gyp ghetto residents, the police, Mayor Addonizio and Governor Hughes appear pious and perfect examples of the "good guys" who cannot understand why this "terrible act of criminal insurrection" has taken place. The Negroes served as perfect examples of the "bad guys" who don't know how to behave and should contentedly nibble on the crumbs provided by the "highly successful" poverty program and other community-action programs-many of which have not even been started. No one group is all good or all bad. My suggestion...