Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogside, where 5,000 Catholics live, is a squalid slum of crumbling two-story buildings jammed into a valley that was once an enormous swamp. Its poverty-encrusted homes are forever damp, and a veil of smog coats the area. It is a place where the city's mostly Protestant police "do what they like," say sullen residents. This night they did, using batons and water cannons furiously in the narrow streets, as the Bogsiders fought back ferociously. Bricks ricocheted off buildings or disintegrated shop windows. Petrol bombs bounced and flared in the glass-shard-littered streets. One crowd...
...paying the most ridiculous and exorbitant rents, although families have lived for generations on their land." She reported that she had been in Bogside the night of the battle and drew a delighted explosion of laughter when she wryly noted that "I organized the civilians in that area to make sure they wasted not one solitary stone in anger...
Eastern schools, are readying major departments of black studies for the coming year. Eventually, Harvard hopes to help create a Boston-area consortium of university Afro-American resources...
...Auto-Ceptor system faces a two-to three-year delay before it sees even limited use. Major problem: finding space for the balloons in the already crowded dashboard area. Fitch's sand barrels, on the other hand, are being tested by the Connecticut State Highway Department, and New York and other states are interested in them...
...STRIKE FORCE: In the past, while a single Mafia family or group of families coordinated most of the major crime in an area, law officers would be working, often at cross-purposes, on different parts of the empire. Now the cops are learning to organize as effectively as the robbers. Three years ago, Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's chief racket buster, created "Strike Force," a team of lawyers and investigators from different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation...