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...also brought injuries to 14 of both races. Police in Erie, Pa., broke up a sidewalk crap game among Negro youths-and the result was two days of stonings and stickwork. Officials in Cincinnati, Tampa and Buffalo, where ghetto dwellers rampaged earlier this summer, nervously sought ways to avert fresh flare-ups. Racial disturbances also occurred in Plainfield, N.J., Laurel, Md., Kansas City, Mo., and Miami...
...confer with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon. He was barely able to conceal his anger over the suggestion that U.S. forces were not being used at full efficiency. It seemed he was taking a bum rap so the President and McNamara could hold down the budget deficit and avert a bigger tax increase...
...avoided. But if the Russians begin to feel cornered-to regard themselves as being pushed around too much by superior American power-the trend to moderation may be reversed, with increasing peril to world safety. Similar American restraint in areas of current or potential conflict can help avert a tragic showdown...
...move as ordered because other police squads were pushing them from the rear and sides. The mass of marchers unavoidably spilled into the police lines, and when they did, they were beaten again. After half an hour, the demonstrators' monitors started to disperse the moiling crowds and avert what might soon have become a far uglier scene than its pacific entrepreneurs ever envisaged...
Something was in fact being done to avert racial violence in the slums this summer...