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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official denunciation of Liu Shao-chi-currently under house arrest in Pe-king-seems to indicate that the Maoists believe they have regained full control of the country. Other, lower-ranking "bourgeois revisionist" leaders may yet be vilified and purged, but as part of a mopping-up operation rather than via the almost ritualistic "naming" of a scapegoat by which the Central Committee completed the official destruction...
...relationship between black students and Harvard administrators at this point was more a confrontation of wills than a meeting of minds. Initial Afro demands--a quota system built into the admissions policy, an endowed chair for a black professor, a rapid increase in the number of lower-level black faculty members, a Concentration in Afro-American experience--were immediately rejected...
...working to achieve that goal. When he came to Berkeley in 1964, several hundred high school students of both races were riding buses to attend the city's only high school. Sullivan immediately extended integration downward to junior high; a year later he started bussing Negro children from lower grades into white schools. When he integrated the city's nursery schools for three-and four-year-olds in 1966, he discovered that "the neighborhood school" was not as hallowed a concept as bussing opponents often suggest. Preschool tots normally have to be driven to school by parents; most...
...Fink is something of a square. He does not freak out, sport beads or let his hair hang to his collar. Instead, Fink wears the badge of a deputy inspector in the New York City Police Department. As head cop in the bohemian quarter of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Fink mans a little-known frontier of the law: preventive enforcement. At a time when young nonconformists tend to see cops as oppressors, call them pigs to their faces and even fling excrement at them, Fink stands all but alone as a policeman who has learned how to handle...
...Polish immigrant who had a tailor shop in the Lower East Side, Fink likes to stroll through the neighborhood where he played as a boy. He has trained his men to look the other way when hippies panhandle tourists. In return, their leaders cooperate with police in returning runaway minors to their parents, and help Fink keep track of narcotics in the neighborhood...