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...schism between old line Independents--the ethnic and neighborhood conservatives--and liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) politicians was as deep as ever after the election, but the balance between the two groups may have shifted subtly...
Startled by the explosion of black violence, Miami's civic leaders invited nationally known blacks to come try to cool the anger. Among them: former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, Southern Christian Leadership Conference President Joseph Lowery and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Chicago. But when Young tried to speak to a post-riot rally of some 800 blacks, he was shouted down and had to leave with a protective escort. "What the hell are you doing here?" one angry black screamed at Young as he arrived for the meeting in Liberty City. "The only...
...white Miami was shocked by the McDuffie trial verdict and the subsequent rioting, it was only because previous warnings had been ignored. As early as March 1979, Athalie Range, a black civic leader, declared starkly: "Miami is bleeding to death. Hate is spelled in capital letters all over this county." When no action was taken in the shooting of young Heath, Garth C. Reeves, editor of the Miami Times, a black weekly, predicted on May 1: "Something terrible is waiting to happen in Dade County...
...loser of the Texas Rangers, a team that Chiles took over as principal owner last week. To Chiles, his $4 million investment in the team is another example of what he will do to cure the country's ills. Says he: "I bought the club as a general civic duty. We have to improve the quality of life here...
...DuRoss, his daughter Anne Ford Uzielli and her statehouse steady, New York Governor Hugh Carey, the semi-retired automaker appeared at a banquet thrown by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith to receive its first American Heritage Award in recognition of his years of civic service. After being praised by National Urban League President Vernon Jordan for his commitment to the ideal of "an open, integrated society," the prizewinner declared that shoring up U S. industry would do as much as anything to bring about "a more just social order...