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And then in the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign pitting three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit...
The murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images...
At the verdict, Mondello's father Michael yelled, "Thank God! Jesus has risen!" The Hawkins family, seated across the aisle, shrieked in dismay and, pointing at the jurors, shouted, "He did it! He did it!" As night fell on Friday, crowds of angry blacks milled about in Brooklyn, disrupting traffic...
On one side of the impasse was Congressman Thomas Downey of New York, who wanted to pay for expanded day-care services through existing block grants to the states, which are less subject to Congress's political whims. On the other side was Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California, who wanted...
He too married within the profession -- he met his first wife in acting school -- but by 1940 he was divorced and free to court Tandy, which he did with his customary persistence and energy. After Tandy's divorce from Hawkins in 1942, she and Cronyn were married in California, and...