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Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
...latest flare-up of black-Jewish tensions was sparked on the hot, muggy evening of Aug. 19, when a station wagon driven by a Hasidic Jew ran a red light, collided with another car, then jumped the curb and struck two black children. Gavin Cato, 7, was killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact...
...hostilities were aggravated by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the ubiquitous black demagogue, who whipped up the crowd at Gavin Cato's funeral early last week. "They don't want peace," he said of the Hasidic Jews. "They want quiet." Sharpton and the lawyer representing the Cato family counseled them not to cooperate with authorities in the investigation and demanded a special prosecutor be named...
...Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...