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...your article on Newark, you state that after the riot last July, "New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school" [March 29]. The statement is incorrect. My own role was simply to encourage direct talks between government officials and citizens of the Newark community. It's an old American tradition, and when tried, it seems to work...
...million college, to be built with state and federal funds, would, of course, have brought jobs to Newark's whites and Negroes alike. But as originally planned early last year, it would also have uprooted some 20,000 Negroes from housing on the 150 acres of Central Ward land that the college wanted. "This," protested one resident, "is a diabolical plot!" After violence succeeded verbal resistance last summer, New Jersey Commissioner of Community Affairs Paul Ylvisaker began'encouraging black militants to mobilize a legal challenge against the school, which initially was planned as a research-oriented institution with...
...Slaughterhouse." The medical school will indeed be built in Central Ward, but now on terms that the residents welcome. Using only 57.9 acres instead of 150, the school has guaranteed that it will take over operation of the Newark City Hospital-known locally, with only some hyperbole, as "the Slaughterhouse"-and invest $2,500,000 in repairs. In addition, a Newark community health council will supervise a comprehensive health-improvement plan for the ghetto and the training and hiring of more Negroes...
...Jungle Cruisers." The overall agreement was unprecedented, because for virtually the first time, local Negroes-even neighborhood militants-were represented directly in the six-week negotiations, telling the city's white leaders exactly what they wanted and needed. Even so, such progress may not be enough to defuse Newark. While last summer's riots were devastating the Negro neighborhoods, they were iust as disastrously poisoning some sections of the white community. In the city's blue-collar Italian wards, scores of whites are arming themselves-with scant discouragement from the police-and forming white vigilante gangs...
Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...