Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romney's memory for history may have lapsed, but his sense of political timing was unusually keen. His drive for the G.O.P. presidential nomination had received little attention during the summer until the Detroit riots and his differences with the President put him back in the headlines. Last week's off-the-cuff remarks landed on television screens and front pages across the nation. He followed up with a speech urging U.S. flexibility toward China, in the hope that Peking will reach the point where it will "deserve and desire" United Nations membership...
...evidence that most city police and National Guardsmen are woefully ill-prepared to deal with riots, Congress had no need to look beyond Detroit...
...authenticated-and most shocking-incident involved three young Negroes who were listed on the police blotter as "apparently shot to death in an exchange of gunfire." According to rumors buzzing through the Negro community, they had been murdered in cold blood. After a thoroughgoing investigation of the killings by Detroit News Reporter Joseph Strickland, city officials reluctantly rounded up a covey of witnesses who agreed that the trio had been shot without provocation...
...Next night, after getting reports of sniping in the area, 16 police and National Guardsmen, guns blazing, burst into a ground-floor room in Algiers Manor, and manhandled its occupants-at least seven Negro men and two white girls-into spread-eagled positions against a wall. Then, said witnesses, Detroit police and a Guard unit led by a warrant officer indulged in an orgy of beating and bashing that lasted 45 minutes...
When H. Rap Brown was in diapers and Stokely Carmichael a three-year-old toddler, a group of fledgling Negro flyers shattered tradition in an unsuccessful attempt to integrate the all-white officers' club at Selfridge Field near Detroit. That was in 1944. Last week a veteran of that long-ago sit-in challenged today's hot gospelers of Black Power...