Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Yorty. Each disorder and each irresponsible threat of upheaval lends credibility to his kind of campaign. Last week's election could cause ripples far beyond Los Angeles. Other cities share the tensions and fears that Yorty capitalized on. Mayoral elections this year and next in New York, Cleveland, Newark, Detroit and Atlanta could turn on substantially the same emotions. With Sam Yorty's example so clear before them, other candidates may well be tempted to exploit the racial issue with all the fervor of a Sam Yorty...
...National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence reported last week that the ambush triggering the Cleveland riot of July 1968 was a deliberate intensification of racial conflict in America. The upheaval, which began with an ambush by blacks on police, was markedly different from other major outbreaks. Violence was directed toward people, not property, and there were more white casualties than Negro. Three whites and four Negroes were killed, twelve whites and three blacks wounded in the ghetto gunfight. The report blamed the violence on "a small and well-equipped army of black extremists." Fred ("Ahmed") Evans, leader...
...blacks hold or seek high office. Newark Negroes, sensing an opportunity to gain control of the city government in next May's elections, have reason for restraint; they wish to do nothing to help Anthony Imperiale, who bases his candidacy on white fear of the Negroes. Blacks in Cleveland are likely to reunite behind Negro Mayor Carl Stokes, who is up for re-election this fall. The mayoral campaign of Negro City Councilman Tom Bradley in Los Angeles has helped to rally that city's Negro community-and to raise black hopes for a more sympathetic city hall...
...should occur. St. Louis plainclothesmen are ready to single out and arrest troublemakers. Houston Chief Herman Short is prepared to "meet force with overwhelming force." Los Angeles police have seven helicopters and an elaborate battle plan involving National Guard and Army Reserve units to cope with violence. Cleveland police are ready to move decisively if the recent conviction and death sentence of Fred ("Ahmed") Evans-a black nationalist who led the fatal ambush of three policemen and a civilian last summer-should touch off rioting there...
...Cleveland is seriously considering a $1.2 billion Lake Erie jetport built on 1,050 acres of landfill and protected by breakwaters, dikes and cofferdams. Although it would lie a mile offshore, a ten-lane causeway with provision for public transit would link it with the city's center, and feeder airlines would connect with cities as far away as Toronto...