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What Kelley would probably admit she possesses, apart from blond cotton- candy hair, a breathless voice and a historic mansion in Washington's fancy Georgetown ghetto, is a drive for nonstop work and a tenacity that borders on obsession. Enemies and friends agree on that...
...like Hungary in 1956. Having called on people to overthrow their repressive leadership, we just sit back and watch them get slaughtered." Other commentators came up with a different analogy: the Red Army halting outside Warsaw in 1944 and doing nothing to stop a Nazi massacre of the Jewish ghetto residents who had risen in revolt...
Though her life in a New York City ghetto was an ugly parody of that storybook vision, a certain 12-year-old girl last week clung fiercely to the ritual. After giving birth in the early hours of the morning in her bedroom, after cradling the 6-lb. 10-oz. boy until dawn, after carrying him into the hallway, stuffing him inside a plastic bag and throwing him down a garbage chute, the little girl did the only thing that made sense in her life. She went to school...
...trying task of policing ghetto America was perhaps best described by the Kerner Commission following the urban riots of the 1960s, most of which were ignited by police violence: "Police responsibilities in the ghetto have grown as other institutions of social control have lost much of their authority: the schools, because so many are segregated, old and inferior; religion, which has become irrelevant to those who lost faith as they lost hope . . . the family, because its bonds are so often snapped. It is the policeman who must fill this institutional vacuum, and is then resented for the presence this effort...
...report continued, "precisely because the policeman in the ghetto is a symbol, it is of critical importance that the police take every possible step to allay grievances that flow from a sense of injustice and increased tension and turmoil...