Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PUBLIC BROADCASTING LABORATORY (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). "Is a Job the Answer?" investigates industry's attempts to solve the problems of the hard-core unemployment in Detroit. Repeat...
African Dashikis and guerrilla-style fatigues set the sartorial tone and tough radicalism dominated the rhetoric last week when 350 delegates to the First National Black Economic Conference met in Detroit. First they ejected white news men. Then they rejected capitalism for a socialist state for Negroes. Within this brave new world, young Negroes would spurn such "dead end" and "status quo" jobs as driving trucks, delivering mail or repairing television sets...
...cold night wind chilled the 125 white demonstrators, mostly youngsters whose parents had driven them in from such affluent suburbs as Grosse Pointe and Bloomfield Hills. The rain snuffed out the lighted candles they carried as they marched toward the offices of the Detroit News. At the building, only police were present to hear Sheila Ann Murphy, the 21 -year-old leader of the marchers, read a statement accusing the News of becoming "a diabolical menace because of its racially inflammatory editorials, features and distorted reportings." The Rev. Joseph McHale, a Catholic priest, ignited a trash can full of copies...
...technique blends pragmatism with good Samaritanism. Just about anything goes, including drugs. "Sometimes you have to sock it to 'em," says Dr. Bruce Danto, director of the Detroit Psychiatric Institute's Suicide Prevention Center, a pioneer in a dramatic form of crisis intervention. "You don't have five years for the patient to come up with his own insights. You have to realize that you can't solve all the problems of the world. You just try to patch some...
American automakers are worried about Japanese inroads, not only in the U.S. market, but in such places as Australia, South Africa and South America. As a result, Detroit has been putting pressure on Washington to force open the Japanese market in two ways. U.S. automen want Japan to lower such nontariff barriers as commodity sales taxes and road-use taxes based on car size. More important, they insist that Tokyo should ease its severe restrictions against foreign investment in Japanese manufacturing firms. General Motors Chairman James Roche recently called Japan "the most notorious" of the world's industrial countries...