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Bilingualism: No to Spanish. In 1973, in recognition of its large Hispanic population, Bade County, Fla., officially became bilingual, with Spanish as the second language. Voters this week passed a law that would make it illegal to spend county funds for the use of any language other than English, effectively nullifying the 1973 resolution. Emmy Schaffer, a survivor of a World War II German concentration camp, spearheaded the initiative by organizing a band of housewives with the slogan: "In America, English first." The movement gained momentum among whites after the summer's Miami riots and huge influx of Cuban...
Nowhere, however, do the tensions and torments equal those in southern Florida, especially Bade County and its central city, Miami. More than half the Cuban refugees have been encamped there, joined by the vast majority of 30,000 black Haitians fleeing extreme poverty and the political repression of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier. Thus Dade County confronts a challenge distinctive in American history: absorbing about 100,000 new residents, roughly equal to the population of Roanoke, Va., who for the most part are poor, unskilled, and unversed in the language of their new country, and doing it in just four...
...greatest problem is that the sheer numbers of new refugees have simply overwhelmed community facilities. Says Metro Bade County Commissioner William Oliver: "We're at the crisis level now." Examples...
...Commission on Civil Disorders cited blacks' outrage over police brutality as a prime cause of rioting in ghetto neighborhoods. If any reminders were needed that the problem persists, the past few months' headlines have provided several. The rioting that rocked Miami in May erupted after four white Bade County officers were acquitted of various charges in the beating death of a black businessman. What one Justice Department official calls "the undeclared war between police and minorities" is a contributing factor in outbreaks of violence within the past year in such cities as Wichita, Kans., and Birmingham...
...Philadelphia bade farewell to Frank Rizzo, the outspoken ex-cop who once appealed to Philadelphians to "vote white." Rizzo failed last year to persuade voters to amend the city charter so that he could win a third term, and he stayed grumpily aloof from the election, pronouncing a pox on all his would-be successors. Said he: "Between the three of them, if you scrambled their brains, you wouldn't get a half...