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...BEDFORD, Mass, Aug 3-The former whaling capital of the world, now holding the highest unemployment rate in the country, has been quiet for two days following a week of militant revolt by blacks and Puerto Ricans. But the truce is unacknowledged, and perhaps non-existent...
Ghetto residents held demonstra-the arrests, and officials re-imposed a 9 p. m. citywide cunfew. Over the weekend, police arrested 28 people for alleged cunfew violations, including Jimmy Magnett, a member of Senator Edward Brooke's ad hoe committee to handle the New Bedford uprising...
...turmoil in New Bedford began in mid-July, after the arrest of a black man in the West End on a minor traffic violation. The conflict escalated two days later with the killing of one black youth, 17-year-old Lester Lima, and the wounding of three others by a band of whites who shot at them from a moving...
...black" population of New Bedford, unlike that of most major cities,is divided between American blacks and blacks from the Portugese colony of Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa. But Cape Verdeans, who constitute 80 per cent of the black population, have traditionally regarded themselves as Portugese, not blacks...
...white unemployment rates in New Bedford, which has sprouted no new industry since the decline of the whaling trade, reaches 30 per cent, the highest in the country. Extensive government funding in the past several years has failed to make a dent in these statistics...