Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week in Detroit, a lawyer in a Hall of Justice courtroom inexplicably drew a gun and pointed it at the judge and a witness. The judge was not carrying the .38 caliber pistol that he usually packs, but three policemen in the courtroom drew their guns and killed the lawyer. A few minutes later, in a luggage shop in downtown Detroit, the owner and his clerk were discovered neatly trussed and executed, apparently in a robbery. A little after that, a prominent black psychiatrist was found dead in the trunk of his car. And still later that evening, police...
Since Jan. 1, there have been 187 homicides in Detroit, 27% ahead of the rate last year in the city that normally revels in records. Last year Detroit (pop. 1.5 million) had 601 homicides, or one for every 2,500 people. By contrast, Chicago, with twice as many people, had 711 murders; while London (pop. 7.4 million) had only...
...Detroit such a center for bloodletting? Police Commissioner John Nichols believes that the widespread possession of handguns is a basic cause. He estimates that there are some 500,000 handguns around, or one for every three citizens of Detroit. Nichols is backed by the studies of Dr. Emanuel Tanay, a professor of psychiatry and law at Wayne State University, who says that "Detroit is almost like an experiment in testing the correlation between the presence of guns and homicide." Tanay notes that over a period of six years, the number of gun permits tripled and the rate of homicides...
...women, one helping a group of divorced mothers to organize a handbook on the problems of divorce, another helping the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston. Other students initiated projects geared to the problems of black and Chicano workers: two people worked to improve minority health care; another two helped Detroit factory workers to organize a credit union. E4A funded one senior who traveled to Washington, D.C., to help in Ralph Nader's investigation of Congress; another student went home to Kenya to try to help local coffee- growers organize a cooperative...
Some of the nation's newspaper editors, perhaps still starry-eyed after their usual late-night diet of Wild West grade "B" movies, saw the takeover as another showdown between the seventh cavalry and Sitting Bull. The Detroit News ran a typical story in their March 25, Sunday edition headlined "Wounded Knee looks like the movies but cast is for real...