Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though fewer than a score of black guerrillas were engaged in the battle, the slum telegraph swiftly rapped out reports, igniting a full-scale riot. Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were...
...mayor was severely criticized by owners of looted stores for entrusting the ghetto to its own activists for 24 hours. But his decision may well have made the difference between confrontation and conflagration. On the other hand, Stokes might be faulted for not having taken more action to forestall trouble. Cleveland, fortuitously, had received solid warning from the FBI and its own intelligence sources that something was brewing. The only hitch was that the warning was for 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, half a day after the actual zero hour...
...Glenville eruption, said the mayor, was "uniquely different from any other in any other city in the country. The others were a spontaneous reaction to an unresponsive environment. But this was a small group of determined men who planned an attack on the police." Reports that other cities-including Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh-were targeted for riot turned out to be merely rumors...
...Those middle-class spoiled brats, Frank lamented. "They're using up the mayor's political capital. Because he's not taking a harder line than he is against the hippies, White is making enemies in the city. It's a shame he has to waste so much of his time and political capital on these kids, when there's so much to be done in this city...
...guise of Barney Frank and Mayor White, was not taking the hippie challenge lying down. Somehow, one got the feeling after watching everyone chasing everyone else around for an hour, kids screaming, bottles smashing, blue lights flashing, that the police could do this every night forever, if so ordered. Somehow, even if one sympathized with the hippies' right to sleep on the Common, one wondered what was accomplished that night...