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...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...
...Council Committee on Urban Renewal, which Atkins chairs, had jurisdiction over the program, and Atkins objected strenuously to its controversial sections...
SEVERAL rationales exist for Atkins' actions. He has won a "consensus" on the Model Cites program, which is a very democratic accomplishment. The implementation of the program will be easier. The Council has demonstrated its power. Perhaps, the program wouldn't have passed the Council even if Atkins had supported it, but that's impossible to say because Atkins was its most energetic opponent...
Doubtlessly Atkins has grown stronger politically. Little criticism of his actions has come from other blacks, yet Atkins played the leading role in curbing liberal Mayor White, an endearing fact to lower-class white Bostonians. Reactionary City Council President William Foley of South Boston praised Atkins' work on Model Cities as the best of any renewal committee chairman that he could remember...
Atkins is still one of the most progressive members of the City Council. He does suport a greater Boston community role in government, though with his peculiar requirements for consensus. But he is no "spokesman" for black aspirations, which, as Baldwin reasoned and Brooke proves, is probably very healthy for his career...