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...license plate on the abandoned Oldsmobile, for example, led to an apartment in East Orange, N. J. There a six-hour search turned up a cache of weapons and explosives, a manual on making bombs and hand-drawn floor plans of six New York City police stations. In a Bronx apartment, state and federal investigators found a similar arsenal and diagrams, plus a newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided, but had been rented in the name of Nina Lewis, an alias police believe...
Police were also pursuing possible connections between last week's robbery and earlier crimes. Could the residue of the Weather Underground have been involved in bloody Brink's ambushes in The Bronx last June and in Brooklyn in December? Could they have had a hand in the killing of a New York City policeman in Queens last April? Or a role in Joanne Chesimard's 1979 escape from prison...
...includes White's collected essays and letters--proves once more White's claim to the title of master craftsman. Much of the material is dated or insignificant; the pieces that work, though, work so well. Two sketches, one the account of the birth of a baby deer in the Bronx Zoo, the other a description of city pigeons, are exemplary of White's best work. Nature, especially the small manifestations of nature--breezes not gales--and the precarious manifestations of nature, have traditionally been best expressed by writers of this...
Baby Love inhabits a world few white folks ever see, a Dickensian hell of cheap thrills, senseless deaths and almost unrelieved hopelessness. He lives in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant section, one of the oldest black settlements in the U.S. Unlike the burned and ravaged South Bronx, ten miles to the north, Bedford Stuyvesant does not resemble a war zone; most of its owner-occupied row houses, brownstones and churches are more or less intact. But high unemployment and a 60% dropout rate among black high school students make it a very dangerous place. One Bed-Stuy precinct, the 77th...
Meanwhile, the chairman of CANI, contacted in New York, could not explain how Riesman's name came to be used. "I am apologizing to Mr. Riesman, but not for the committee's stand," said the group's head. Miro Todorovich, a physics professor at Bronx Community College, who added that he planned to write a clarifying letter to the Globe...