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Urgent action is needed if [racial disadvantage] is not to become an endemic, ineradicable disease threatening the very survival of our society. -Lord Scarman's report on the 1981 riots in Brixton, England...
...alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen other working-class communities around Britain...
...choose to stay in France and payments-perhaps as much as $4,700 each-to those who choose repatriation. Britain's Conservative government, whose anti-immigration policies have been denounced as "oppressive" by its Labor Party opponents, is trying to head off a repeat of the 1981 Brixton riots. Police have abandoned some of the antagonistic practices of the past and have moved to establish better community relations, and modest amounts of money have been earmarked for the most blighted urban areas. The mayor of West Berlin has appointed a commissioner for German-Turkish relations. In The Netherlands...
Calculated outrage like this burns out fast, and Bowie was in danger of doing just that. Pale under all his stage makeup and already well into the high life, he was held together only by the weight of his old dreams. Born in Brixton, one of London's toughest neighborhoods, Bowie originally dreamed of being a painter. He describes his father Hayward Jones as "a gambler and drinker and layabout for most of his life. I have one brother and one sister that I know about." His mother Margaret Mary Burns was a movie usher when she met Hayward...
Four months pregnant and blooming, Diana, Princess of Wales, ventured last week into London's seedy Brixton area. Predominantly black, and the scene of last spring's fiery riots, Brixton was staging a fair to raise funds for a local, racially mixed school. Dressed in a turquoise coatdress and squired by beaming Expectant Father Prince Charles, Diana was greeted with an impromptu baby shower. Among the gifts: a Teddy bear, a toy corgi (her mother-in-law's favorite breed of dog), a 12-lb. loaf of West Indian bread baked in the shape of a duck...