Word: bradleys
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...police brutality has eased, but nobody is really sure that this is so. Says James Compton, executive director of the Chicago Urban League, about rioting in the city: "The potential is definitely there. It is just a question of what will touch it off." Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a black, contends that black antagonism toward his city's police has dropped. "We used to have a shooting policy," he says of the department. "Now we are working with the community." But Harry Dolan, director of the former Watts Writer Workshop, disagrees. Says he: "The resentment is building again...
...Games should be changed. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, a basketball gold medalist in the 1964 Olympics, predicted four years ago that politics would dismantle the 1980 Games. He believes, correctly, that the crisis of this XXII Olympiad may offer the opening to do so. The politics and commercialism of the spectacle should be radically reduced. Most athletes in competition neither want nor need the political extravaganzas and financial hype. To help rescue the Olympics from their present distress, in which this nation is unavoidably an accomplice, the U.S. might...