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...could afford to pay the interest and our share of state charges, and that could be about it," Sullivan warns. No police, most likely, and no firemen. Very little public education, and almost no city government...
...after that, the ethnics took over. From 1900-1930, Velucci insists, the Irish "had complete control of city hall, lock, stock and barrel. They had control of the school department, they had the mayor and the city council. There were Irish teachers being appointed, and cops and firemen and city laborers. Tip O'Neill's father was sewer commissioner, a friend of his ran the water department." Hard on the heels of the Irish, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French reached the far shore of the Charles. "Between them, they took all the power away from the silk-stocking...
...causes of America's worst race riots of the 1960s are yellowing now in public libraries and official files. The Kerner Commission's warning that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal" has faded, too, from public consciousness. But as firemen in riot-ravaged Miami quenched the last embers of blazes that had reduced scores of business buildings to charred shells, as street crews hosed off the blood of 14 people beaten or shot to death, and 3,800 National Guardsmen withdrew from patrolling a 40-block by 60-block area...
Even ambulances were showered with rocks as they tried to pick up victims. One ambulance driver suffered an eye injury when a rock shattered his window. More fires started-about 50 in all-and firemen couldn't get to many of them. "Utter chaos," said one fire department dispatcher. Just before midnight, Governor Bob Graham alerted the National Guard, and 1,000 troopers with M-16 rifles streamed into the embattled city...
...small explosions. A moment later, residents of Elizabeth and neighboring Staten Island, N.Y., were jolted by a third blast, which sent a fireball hundreds of feet into the air. Some 30 people were injured, and the blaze that followed burned for more than ten hours before exhausted firemen were able to bring it under control. "I thought it was the end of the world," said Ralph Spinelli of Staten Island, who stood on his porch and watched 55-gal. drums fly into the air and burst like bombs. "I think it's a miracle that no one was killed...