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...among the lowest building rates in the nation. But last week, in a counterpoint to the sorrow of the deadliest fire in nearly 50 years, the city also offered a sign of hope. As the choir of gospel singers sang and the mayor beamed, Detroit opened its first new inner-city housing development in 30 years...
...other study, from the Journal of the American Medical Association, documented skyrocketing violence in the inner city. Dr. Leland Ropp and his colleagues in Detroit found that the overall rate of childhood death for all races in their city had risen 50% from 1980 to 1988. Tragically, almost the entire increase was linked to a jump of 250% in the rate of murder, usually by handguns, of black boys ages 10 to 14 and of black teenagers of both sexes, ages...
...keeping 35,000 petition signatures in a bank vault until he delivers them to state election officials. The Perot campaign insists that it is not trampling the grass. "Democracy, after all, is an unruly process," says Perot spokesman James Squires. Big changes are afoot within Perot's inner circle too. Hamilton Jordan, campaign manager and chief of staff for Jimmy Carter, has decided to join the campaign, as has former Reagan adviser Ed Rollins. They're just the kind of political pros Perot has been seeking...
...course, Jeffries has the legal right to espouse whatever ridiculous theories on race he can conjure up. But his message of division and cultural nationalism can only lead his followers--many of them inner-city Blacks still desperate for truly equal political representation--to violence. His power to incite hatred, his anti-Semitism and his anti-gay attitudes should be recognized as hateful non-scholarship...
Ellis says he believed the election of Richard M. Nixon, followed by republican administrations in 20 of the last 24 years helped "cut Cambridge out of the inner circles of government...