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Outburst of Pique. Groppi and his Youth Council "commandos," most of them husky, high-spirited Negro lads, failed during the August riots to march on the Graustarkian downtown city hall where Democratic Mayor Henry Maier holds sway. They were checked by Maier's ironfisted curfew. Earlier this month, the Groppians paraded through the Polish-dominated South Side and were met by abuse, firecrackers, beer cans and rage. Last week, while Groppi lay ill with summer flu and exhaustion, 80 of his stalwarts descended on the mayor's office, chanting "Sock it to me, Black Power" and "Mayor Maier...
Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...
...Blared his emergency siren in the presidential palace one day last month, then decreed a 10 p.m. curfew, a rare measure even for Papa Doc; anyone caught on the streets after the witching hour took his life in his hands...
...just five hours, the first of 4,100 Guardsmen were mobilizing. Soon after, Maier proclaimed the curfew. There were a number of serious firefights with snipers; four people died as a result of the riot and 101 were injured. Maier relaxed the curfew each day by degrees, and the violence subsided after four nights. Urban Coalition. Widespread reliance on martial law is hardly an appealing prospect for the long run. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, a member of an informal Cabinet task force that began meeting during the Detroit riot, is convinced that only programs giving slum residents...
...Vernon, N.Y. -- A ban on liquor and a curfew were imposed after two nights of mob disorder...