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...death. Left to care for their infant son Jason. Wiesenfeld applied for Social Security benefits for the boy and himself. Though he won an award for Jason. Wiesenfeld was told he was ineligible because such benefits were available only to widows. Wiesenfeld sued in federal district court in Newark, charging that the act denied him equal protection and violated the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment. A three-judge panel agreed, and last week the Supreme Court affirmed that decision...
...prison rebellion at Attica, N.Y., was part of a siege of domestic violence that began with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and continued in a demoralizing blur through the deaths of R.F.K., Martin Luther King, the flames of Newark and Watts, the bashing by (and of) war protesters, the torn victims of radical bombings, and the savage abbreviation of young lives at Kent and Jackson State...
...Americans have reacted relatively calmly, but the pain of the recent rapid rise in joblessness is only beginning to be felt and their frustration and hostility are intensifying. Congressman Peter Rodino reports that the mood of his largely black constituency in Newark "is ugly." The city's jobless rate, always high, has climbed...
...state possesses some of the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast, and one of the most dismal lunar landscapes of swamp, industrial waste, and smelly oil refineries to be found in the U.S. Its nearly 8 million people live in communities as diverse as the grinding black ghettoes of Newark, the elegant $200,000 homes of Short Hills and Princeton, and the Rockwellian small towns of Cumberland County that preserve the life-style of an earlier, simpler America...
...When the all-volunteer Army was established in July 1973, 19% of the Army were black (v. 11% of the population). The figure has since edged up to 22%, but the level is holding. There seems to be little racial tension at Fort Jackson. Frank Lewis, a black from Newark, told me: "Here in the barracks we've got to get along together as a team all the time. If one of us goofs up, we all get in trouble...