Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That explanation did not satisfy Congressman John Conyers, a Democrat from Detroit and one of the 75 on file. "I certainly wasn't one of those who cooperated with the CIA in any way," he said. When he had asked for his own file, Conyers discovered that it consisted entirely of newspaper clippings...
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...conditions only got worse. Even as the White House was preparing the message to Congress, the incidents of violence and stealth that have terrorized so many millions of Americans were continuing across the nation. In one 72-hour period, eleven persons were killed in Atlanta, six by gunfire. In Detroit Beach, Mich., a woman watching her four-year-old grandson at play saw him stabbed to death by a teenage boy who was apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?...
Other strategic innovations can also help. Determined to do something about Detroit's murders, police there formed two special units, one to concentrate on drug-ring murders and one on murders committed during robberies or other felony crimes. The payoff has been a solution rate of more than 80% for both categories. Police in Portland, Ore., for their part, have a special unit to bust fencing operations in hopes that burglaries will drop because the swag is harder to get rid of. The rate did indeed drop 16% in the past two years. In New York City, policemen now operate...
...never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split by their disparate national and religious (both Christian and Moslem) origins. But Arab-American pride is asserting itself, especially in Detroit's community (about 80,000 people) and on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue...