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...suspected leftists were rounded up and herded into detention camps. Political parties and any gathering of more than five persons were banned; newspapers, magazines and broadcasts were placed under censorship; and membership in Communist organizations was made punishable by death after trial by courts-martial. A midnight-to-dawn curfew was established on the night of the coup, then dropped-after revelers who ignored it were shot. Constitutional rule will eventually be restored, said Sangad, but only "when the nation is ready...
...near riot, robberies, pillaging and rape, Detroit's black mayor, Coleman Young, belatedly rushed back from vacation and vowed last week, "We will not tolerate lawlessness in the streets. We will stand for it no longer." Detroit's police needed no further encouragement. Minutes after the curfew went into effect, plainclothesmen and uniformed cops were out in force, and anything that moved was fair game. At one point, a two-man team sighted three black youths on a dark street corner. "What are you doing out now?" demanded one cop as his partner covered the trio with...
Mere Rhetoric. Still, the malaise that grips the decaying motor capital is unlikely to yield to short-term measures like a curfew-and even less to mere rhetoric and good intentions. As John Cardinal Dearden, the Archbishop of Detroit, put it last week, "We are called upon to rebuild the structure...
...ignored. Though the city was not actually in flames, Mayor Young stoically cut short his vacation. Having laid off 1,000 policemen in July because of a fiscal squeeze, he rehired 675 of them and immediately assigned 200 to gang-busting patrols. The city council also ordered the curfew, which curtailed the gangs' activities, at least for the moment. Aside from ordering a tightening of procedures, however, there was not much that Young could do about Detroit's overburdened and overly lenient juvenile-court system, whose facilities are so inadequate that robbers and rapists under...
...also under a cloud because of a federal investigation of alleged payoffs from narcotics operators to some of its high-ranking officers. Some of the police still regard the mayor as a cop hater and Police Chief Philip Tannian as an inept lackey. But they have enforced the curfew and regained control of the streets-at least temporarily...