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...Robert F. Froehlke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration, disclosed that the Army had become seriously involved in surveillance of civilians after the Newark and Detroit riots in 1967. Following recommendations to Lyndon Johnson by Cyrus Vance, a former Deputy Defense Secretary, the Army formed a Civil Disturbance Committee to study the possible use of federal troops in major cities in the event of widespread insurrection. The intelligence operation grew quickly and haphazardly, investigating all sorts of persons-those who might contribute "directly or indirectly" to civil disturbances. After a public outcry, the Army's files on civilians were...
...have breakfast in my own backyard," says Mayor William Hart, 45, who is black. "In that sense we are not the city. But we are just a few bricks removed from it." For many of the blacks, East Orange has been the first step out from the city, from Newark or New York, a reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist...
Once, branches of elegant New York City stores lined Central Avenue; now East Orange has little to offer its residents commercially. It has no shopping center of its own. The people of East Orange do their business either in New York or Newark, or at the shopping malls and plazas that have sprung up in the other suburbs. Central Avenue is not dead, but it is decaying...
Despite its problems, East Orange has quite a bit going for it. It is compact, if overcrowded. Unlike neighboring Newark, it has a history of capable, efficient government. It has a stable white and black middle class. There are some extreme views on both sides of the racial fence, but tensions are far lower than in some other Jersey towns-a fact that the mayor attributes to East Orange's high percentage of homeowners. It is still a town in search of itself. As one white resident put it: "We haven't had soul here in 20 years...
...sergeants indicted for service club infractions. Woolridge menacingly asked St. Martin: "Don't you know you can get hurt?" St. Martin replied: "Let me remind you a major still outranks a sergeant." Not always. St. Martin is now executive officer of the armed forces induction center in Newark, N.J.-hardly the kind of assignment designed to further a career...