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...Councilor Charles A. Watson, who proposed the hearings, then charged that two of the men arrested by Cosgrove were on the city payroll. City Manager John J. Curry answered by saying the two unnamed gamblers had worked for the city, one in the Public Works Department, the other as a temporary employee, but they no longer hold their jobs...
...Councilor Charles A. Watson, who proposed the hearings, said last week that Ready and Cosgrave had made "conflicting statements." Cosgrove, according to Watson, denied Ready's claim that he had asked for transfer...
...angry group of whites marched on city hall, demanding that the beer hall be moved out of the city to Negro quarters. But they got a brusque reply from American-born City Councilor Hyman Miller, an ex-mayor of Johannesburg. Snapped Miller angrily: "You can't put down racial tensions that way. The blame lies with us whites. We've failed to build up a contented Negro community. There's too much want among them. They want homes, decent lives and a stake in their land. They want opportunity and cultural uplift. Give them these things...
...Premier Guy Mollet, like most of his Socialists, was acutely uncomfortable with his program of repression. Without publicity, the government has been trying to establish unofficial contact with rebel leaders. Last March, French Union Councilor Georges Gorse, a former Socialist deputy married to an Egyptian, traveled to Cairo, ostensibly to discuss trade but actually to meet the members of the National Liberation Front in their Cairo headquarters. More recently, French representatives unofficially got in touch with the rebels' military leader, Mohammed Ben Bella, on one of his trips to Madrid. So far there has been no progress, since...
...Councilor's motion to seize University property for parking space is expected to come up for reconsideration in an altered form, with "confiscation" of land substituted for "taking by eminent domain...