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...middle-class whites continue their exodus to the suburbs, they are more and more accompanied by lower-income whites and nonwhites who are also fleeing the cities-and bringing all their problems with them. But the black move to suburbia is much slower. Though the number of blacks living in the suburbs is expected to grow from 2.8 million in 1960 to 6.8 million in 1985, the white suburban population will grow from 52 million to 106 million. Already the suburbs lead the cities in population, 66 million to 59 million...
...report's recommendations: construction of some 6,000,000 housing units for lower-income families moved from the inner city; experimental Government-subsidized insurance for home owners against loss in property values caused by integration; establishment of an urban-development bank to aid cities and suburbs, much as the World Bank finances growth in underdeveloped nations overseas...
...judge on Hitler's dreaded wartime People's Court, Hans-Joachim Rehse signed 231 death sentences. Last year a West German lower court sentenced Rehse, now 66, to five years in prison as an accessory to "legal murder." Plainly convinced that the sentence was far too light, the Federal Court in Karlsruhe ordered a retrial on the grounds that he was either wholly responsible or wholly innocent and should be sentenced accordingly. Last week a Berlin criminal court touched off a nationwide uproar by acquitting Rehse...
Another problem is the Common Market's agricultural subsidies, which are rigged to keep farm prices uniform in all six member countries. Because the subsidies are computed in dollars, a shift in exchange rates would automatically raise or lower the income of farmers in EEC countries. If the Germans increased the value of the mark by 5%, for example, German farmers would lose at least $250 million a year because the prices of their products would have to be cut by 5%. The subsidy deals are scheduled for renegotiation by 1970. That timetable could be changed but, whatever...
...What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent." He is particularly ferocious toward the press: "The headline of the Daily News today reads BRUNETTE STABBED TO DEATH. Underneath in lower-case letters: '6,000 Killed in Iranian Earthquake.' I wonder what color hair they...