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Typically, the city has a growing blight of porn shops and very blue movies. Parts of the black ghetto are spreading into decaying white neighborhoods, and unemployment is high among the city's Latinos and blacks. Yet Grand Rapids also boasts cultural accouterments that would be the envy of many a larger city: a fine symphony orchestra, directed by Spanish-born Theo Alcantara, a ballet troupe and a civic theater. Jerry and Betty Ford buy season tickets, but they are used by his half brothers, Jim, an optometrist, and Richard, who works as manager for the Ford Paint...
...full time. They found a tangle of doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal and state bureaucracies. But Skinner quickly became convinced that he had "just scratched the surface." So 15 months ago, he created the Governmental Frauds Unit-first federal effort...
...WATTS GHETTO IS WITHIN 20 miles of Palisades High School, Palisades Calif. But no one at the school expected the eruption that occurred in the summer of '65--in fact, none of that year's graduating seniors knew the ghetto existed. Their lives in the affluent suburbs came nowhere near preparing them for the world into which they emerged, a world increasingly aware of an immoral war, of civil rights issues, of women's issues, of all the social injustices that surrounded that suburban existence...
...sort of pessimistic about racial problems. We're headed in the direction of Northern race relations where the blacks are going to be ghettoized and where you have this enormous difference in the schools between the whites from the suburbs and the blacks from the ghetto...
...Democratic vote, have enabled Democratic candidates to win even while losing much of the white vote; Carter showed how that works in Florida, North Carolina and Michigan. Says William McLaughlin, G.O.P. state chairman in Michigan: "The weakness of the Republican Party is that when we go to the ghetto to talk about what we have done, we have to send a white man. Because we've been unable to crack the black vote, we don't have elected black officials. We're in a chicken-and-egg situation. How do we elect that first black...