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...dismayed by the rioting. In a typical comment, Carlos Castro, president of Chicago's Puerto Rican United Front, noted that the plunderers were poor and lived in slum housing, though he said of the violence: "You can't justify it." So far, there were no signs of a white backlash, even though many broadcast and newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK; from...
Flurry of Firings. Though the parades reflect growing solidarity among gays, the increasing militancy is undoubtedly offensive to many "straights" and could produce a backlash among them. Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, concedes that there has been a "flurry of firings" of homosexuals in Dade County and that at least one state legislature -Oklahoma's-has passed a resolution endorsing Bryant's position. But in Illinois a similar motion was withdrawn after being sarcastically attacked by a number of legislators. Said Representative Harold D. Byers: "Next we'll be passing...
Education experts, like Senator Edward Brooke (R., Mass.), ranking minority member on the HEW-Labor subcommittee on appropriations, fear that the money crunch will force schools to "mainstream" ill-prepared students into regular classrooms rather than putting them in small special classes. This could prompt a parental backlash. Says Professor Frances Connor, chairman of the special education department of Columbia University's Teachers College: "If you had a child who was just about at the entry level for college, and you felt that his needs were not being met because the handicapped children required a lot of the teacher...
Although several notorious gangsters are being prosecuted, pressure on organized crime has eased considerably in the past few years because of disarray among federal law enforcement agencies, notably the FBI, IRS and Drug Enforcement Administration. They are still suffering from the backlash against the civil rights violations committed by some overzealous agents in the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, the FBI has not yet settled down from the inevitable turmoil that followed the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1972; its parent, the Justice Department, has been disoriented by a revolving door at the top: five chiefs since...
...recently been touted as the next head of news operations for the network. The network canceled the seventh series of bouts-scheduled to be fought in Miami Beach-stopped the tournament, and hired a special investigator to delve into the charges. Rival CBS was caught in the backlash. After promoters set up an embarrassing mismatch for CBS's boxing series, both networks-wary of viewer confidence in the sport-suspended future bouts. ABC hopes to clean house and resume the telecasts, but Don King's tourney and the future of boxing on television may be down...