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THIS is an election year for New York City, and those words are the summons to the barricades, the social contract and tacit manifesto of the Democratic challenger for the mayoralty of the five boroughs of the fabled, troubled city. His name is Mario Angelo Procaccino, and he is a defiant little man who claims to speak for the angry little people?by far the voting majority ?who live and suffer life in New York. For four years, Procaccino and those he seeks to lead have endured what they feel is a special form of outrage, over and above...
...condition, like humidity or mass, that can be safely measured from a distance. To call someone "poor," in the modern way of thinking, is to speak pejoratively of his condition, while the substitution of "disadvantaged" or "underprivileged," indicates that poverty wasn't his fault. Indeed, writes Linguist Mario Pei in a new book called Words in Sheep's Clothing (Hawthorn; $6.95), by using "underprivileged," we are "made to feel that it is all our fault." The modern reluctance to judge makes it more offensive than ever before to call a man a liar; thus there is a "credibility...
What happens to New York's liberal Mayor John Lindsay in November, says Jordan, will be a weathervane for blacks. If he loses to Democrat Mario Procaccino, a hard-line candidate, black hopes for political participation will sag. Blacks in Newark plan to run a candidate for mayor next year against big odds. The election of right-wing white Anthony Imperiale would be a traumatic setback. Blacks are fielding Richard Austin for mayor this year in Detroit, where almost 40% of the registered voters are black. In Atlanta, nine blacks are running for alderman and at least three will...
...Justice Department is sending special anti-Mob "strike forces" into major cities, more money is being spent by police forces, and more men are being thrown into the battle. Hollywood makes movies about it (The Brotherhood), and readers have put it on the top of the bestseller list (Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that it was. It is a vast, sprawling underground domain impossible to trace fully; but there is no longer any doubt that its most important part, its very nucleus...
...some influential fans rooting for her. Her attorney, Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi, plans to press legal action. Her case has also caught the attention of New York Congressman Samuel Stratton, who said that Piton's abrogation of Mrs. Gera's contract "strikes me as a clear-cut violation of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex." The New York State Human Rights Division will hold a hearing on the dispute next month...