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This close relationship between white and black leaders began as a community-wide reaction to the race riot of 1967, one of the worst in the nation. A total of 33 blacks and ten whites died in the chaos, and the damage to property amounted to $80 million. Civic leaders formed an interracial group called New Detroit and worked hard to improve race relations, especially between black residents and a white-dominated police force. Three years later, Henry Ford led the formation of Detroit Renaissance, a group made up of chief executives of the major corporations in the city. This...
...Harvard will reenter city politics with a vengeance. Now, representatives of the University don't even attend council meetings. But the University, which has many times in the city's history played a powerful role in local politics, could return to the forum. It will be hard; the Cambridge Civic Association, a Harvard voice in the past when it represented mainly the Brattle St. upper-crust now claims large numbers of young, liberal tenants who have the most to fear from Harvard's expansion. But it may not be impossible--it is likely that the University could find...
...Proposition 9, Jarvis' new plan to cut state personal income taxes in half. Two years ago Californians rousingly approved Jarvis' Proposition 13 to cut real estate taxes an average of 57%. This time his tax-cutting plan met strong opposition from civil service unions and other civic organizations, which argued that it would benefit the rich and cut government services to the poor. Result: Californians last week voted down Prop. 9 by 61% to 39%. Does this mean the tax revolt is over? Not likely. Noting that Californians had enjoyed $26 billion in tax reductions over three years...
...change his mind about the budget that Hollings had shepherded through a House-Senate conference committee. In the same week that Carter told the crew of the homecoming nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz that he favored higher pay for servicemen (see cover story), the President also told a group of civic leaders that Congress's proposed budget provided too much money for the military. "He doesn't want a balanced budget," roared Hollings. "He wants a campaign budget...
With Lyons went the old horsetrading era of city politics. There are still powerful neighborhood politicians in the city--Vellucci, for example. But from the Plan E forces grew a strong coalition--the Cambridge Civic Association--that has provided a heavy counterweight. For the last decade, progressives have excercised tentative control over the city council; they currently own five of the seven school committee seats. Their support comes now not just from the Brattle St. Wealthy, but from city tenants and young people interested in rent control and social issues...