Word: newarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the air. Windows shattered and burglar alarms were touched off for miles around, and residents of communities almost 100 miles away reported that their homes shook. In the predawn hours last Friday, a thunderous explosion ripped through three towering gasoline tanks at a Texaco storage facility in Newark. The blast killed one man and injured 21 others. After using water and foam to contain the blaze, hundreds of fire fighters watched as the giant vessels slowly began to burn themselves out. By daylight the tanks, filled with some 3.4 million gal. of gas for service stations in New York...
...recent Wall Street Journal article noted that cities with Black mayors have led others in restraining police gunplay. Many of these mayors had campaigned on platforms that included ending brutality. Newark's Kenneth Gibson has cut the rate of shooting by 75 percent since he entered office in the late 1970s. In Detroit, the average number of annual deaths caused by police fell in the late 1970s from 32 to 21. For Atlanta under Maynard Jackson, the average went from 11 to four. Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, an ex-cop, allows the District Attorney to conduct frequent investigations into...
...This conclusion was not just based on liberal notions about affirmative action: New Orleans police have led the country for years in the number of annual complaints to the federal government of impropriety. The city's rate of police killings per violent crime is about 10 times that of Newark. An investigator of brutality in New Orleans says the situation is not improving...
...growing evidence that a transmissible agent may be involved bodes well for the eventual development of a vaccine for AIDS. Right now, however, there is not even a specific therapy. Says Pediatrician James Oleske of Newark, who has been treating eight of the children: "We are doing lots of things, but four have died. I am disheartened and frightened...
Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a longtime social-action official for Reform Judaism, has battled Catholic officialdom on abortion. Yet he says of the nuclear issue, "They let us carry the ball alone for too long. Bring on the bishops!" But Archbishop Peter Gerety, 70, of Newark, warns, "We have to make clear that we are not trying to write legislation or elect politicians." In some cases bishops have veered close to doing both on the abortion issue...