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Many of the Chicago-style murders stemmed from a feud between rival bands of hoodlums-one headed by Brothers George, Bernie and Edward McLaughlin of suburban Charlestown, the other by James ("Buddy") McLean and his pals from nearby Somerville. By last week, Bernie and Edward McLaughlin and Buddy McLean were dead, mowed down by unknown assassins; George McLaughlin was in death row at Walpole State Prison on a murder rap; bodies were still falling...
While some 300 Roxbury parents are scraping the bottom of the barrel to bus their children out of ghetto schools, the School Committee coolly sanctions overcrowding in Roxbury--and in white Charlestown. While white neighborhood schools accept Operation Exodus peacefully, the Hicks alliance refuses to heed this lesson...
Leaders of anti-renewal groups from North Harvard. Dorchester, East Boston, South Boston, and Charlestown described the latest battles in their fight with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and heaped vilification on renewal kingpins while the audience clapped approvingly...
...order to foil the BRA, John Harrington, President of SHOC, Self-Help Organization Charlestown, called for a defeat of pro-renewal City Council members, and the enactment of a law that would allow a neighborhood to veto an urban renewal project...
Helping Jack. One of twelve children of a Boston stevedore, Frank Morrissey was raised in Boston's Charlestown area -a section that even today is so poor that Negro mothers refuse to allow their children to be bussed to white schools there. After two years at Boston College, Frank quit to take a job with the state, enrolled for night courses at Suffolk University Law School in Boston...