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...construction or renovation of a certain amount of housing whenever they put up a major office building. The idea is to create new dwellings for the people who will work in the offices. Should the developer balk, he must contribute $6,000 to a housing bond program for each 1,000 sq. ft. of new construction...
...local primaries this month, the voter-registration effort has been the largest and most successful since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. An estimated 40,000 new voters were registered since May, increasing black registration by about 11%. Aiding the effort were Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader. And, of course, Jesse Jackson, who staged a three-day barnstorming car caravan through the Delta country to spark a record black turnout in the primaries...
...Buffalo. "He did what any father would have done, and he shouldn't be charged." Williams, a truck driver and avowed street minister, was arrested for first-degree assault. He spent one night in jail; a sympathetic judge freed him the next day on an unsecured $10,000 bond. "Cop after cop came up to him in the cell and congratulated him," said Paul J. Cambria, a prominent Buffalo attorney who is defending Williams. Said Buffalo Mayor James Griffin: "Dean should be thrown in jail, and if a judge lets him out he should be run out of town...
Booked and released after posting a $500 bond, Winfield was suitably remorseful. "It is quite unfortunate," he said, "that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us." Nor is the case. After thinking it over, Toronto police dropped the charge...
...EXTENT that this newfound solidarity is the common bond of hardship, it cannot be seen as a triumph of the civil rights movement, but rather a failure of American society at large to take equality to heart. The poverty level now stands at 15 percent--the highest since 1965 when President Johnson launched the War on Poverty. Amid the relative prosperity of the early 60s, primarily Blacks were relegated to this lowest income strata. The "equalizing" twist of the 80s is that under Reagan-styled economic Darwinism. Americans are now willing to sacrifice white families as well in order...