Word: detroit
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...Journal article noted that cities with Black mayors have led others in restraining police gunplay. Many of these mayors had campaigned on platforms that included ending brutality. Newark's Kenneth Gibson has cut the rate of shooting by 75 percent since he entered office in the late 1970s. In Detroit, the average number of annual deaths caused by police fell in the late 1970s from 32 to 21. For Atlanta under Maynard Jackson, the average went from 11 to four. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, an ex-cop, allows the District Attorney to conduct frequent investigations into how and when...
...declarations, kisses, caresses, and other amorous indulgences which transpired between Malvinia and Mr. Twain, in Malvinia's sumptuously appointed bedchamber." Gates, 44, outdistanced feminism long before it was fashionable to do so, taking her themes from headlines. Them (1969) explored the roots of violence by reconstructing the 1967 Detroit race riots. "War, rape, murder and the more colorful minor crimes," she complained then, "evidently fall within the exclusive province of male action." Now a professor at Princeton, after years of teaching in western Ontario, Gates is currently at work on a mystery novel. A book of her essays...
...Supreme Court has recognized the right of parents to send their children to schools other than the public schools." The Supreme Court may have to make another decision - this time on what requirements states can impose on both public and private schools. - -ByEllie McGrath. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/ Detroit...
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