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Last week, the Polish government commemorated the 30th anniversary of the resistance with a 25-minute wreath-laying ceremony at a massive black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. Said Marek Edelman, 53, the only leader of the uprising who still lives in Poland: "We proved that a few people, hungry and poorly equipped, could resist, and that the Germans were not a superhuman force...
Police say that the surge in ownership of guns-most of them unregistered-started after blacks burned and sacked large parts of the city's ghetto areas in the 1967 riots. "It seemed like everybody went out and bought a gun," one officer recalls. Now that so many guns are handy, the argument over the kitchen table at 2 a.m., which might once have ended in a punch in the nose, has a good chance of ending with a bullet in the gut. The police log offers these samples: an argument in the Red Dog Bar, a disagreement...
...Wall. "Triumphantly exciting," says the Herald. "Emotionally charged," says the Monitor. "It's amateur night in the Warsaw ghetto," says the Globe, "in this starkly inept dramatization of John Hersey's novel, which memorialized the suffering of the Jews during World War II." 'Sist schwer ein yid zein. 8:15 at the National Jewish Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
Some blacks who live in high stress ghetto areas learn to tolerate and to adjust passively to the media images, Pierce said...
Citing evidence that black males die two years earlier than they did ten years ago, Pierce said, "it is more stressful to live in the ghetto than to live in a spaceship." The astronaut, unlike the ghetto dweller, can dream of the time when he will get out of his confinement, Pierce explained...