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...part of York lay in smoldering ruins and National Guard tanks patrolled the streets. "But everyone thought it was even." And for nearly the rest of the century the carnage remained an open, unpursued secret: no accounting, no justice. Then in April, two brothers--members of a white street gang--were indicted for a murder from that long-ago week. Police have since arrested six more suspects, last week including a former badge wearer: Mayor Robertson. Suddenly not only was York talking about its secret, so was America...
...affidavit says that during the race riots, Robertson provoked trouble by addressing a rally and yelling "White power!" Then, the affidavit continues, he provided ammunition to a gang known as the Newberry Street Boys and told them, "If I weren't a cop, I would be leading commando raids against n______ in the black neighborhoods." The ammunition that Robertson allegedly handed out was used on the night of July 21, 1969, when a car carrying a black family turned onto Newberry Street by mistake. It had got no more than a block when the driver saw a crowd...
...grand jury says that never happened. It says he went over and began talking to several armed Newberry Street gang members while another officer tended to the people in the car. No arrests were made. For decades, the city simply did not to talk about it--until a local newspaper story on the 30th anniversary ripped open old scars. "Before, people were just afraid or felt threatened," says a local businessman. "But York is a changing, more open and prosperous city today." The businessman, however, asked to remain anonymous...
...never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled son Christian (who served five years in prison for killing his half-sister's lover). Tests showed that the younger girl's father was Robert Blake, 67, former child star (Our Gang), movie actor (In Cold Blood) and TV cop (Baretta). Bakley married Blake last November. On the night of May 4, it was Blake who ran breathlessly into Vitello's, where he was a regular (a spinach and pasta dish is named for him) and where he had just had dinner with...
Welcome to the new battle of Seattle. The $5 billion Mario Bros. gang and the $23 billion Windows heavyweights, neighbors who never before had occasion to compete, are set to clash over the hearts, minds and $15 billion annual global sales of the video-game industry. It's a pretty even contest: Nintendo may have more than a century of arcade experience, but Microsoft has its bruised post-antitrust trial pride at stake--and nobody ever went broke overestimating Gates' ability to break a new market...