Word: addonizio
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Empire Building." In Newark, N.J., Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio has been locked in struggle with the United Community Corporation, the agency that took control of the city's anti-poverty program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...