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...hopes to see two more men freed soon. Last week, because of stories by Raab, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Samuel Larner was considering reopening the murder convictions of Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter and Grocery Clerk John Artis after a 1966 shoot-out in Paterson, N.J. Raab was instrumental in getting two witnesses to admit that they had lied about seeing Carter and Artis at the murder scene...
Nasty Dog. Finally, in August, the men agreed to sign statements that they had perjured themselves. They told Raab and Public Defense Investigator Fred Hogan that Paterson police, incensed over Carter's earlier public protests against police brutality, had promised them protection if they implicated the two men. After further checking, Raab-who had moved from WNET to the New York Times while following the case-broke the story on Sept. 27. "Once Selwyn gets on a story, he's like a nasty dog yapping at your leg," observes CBS Reporter Milagros Ardin, a former co-worker...
ALTHOUGH SHE IS sympathetic towards most other aspects of the city's life, Norwood takes a simplistic and negative view of Paterson's political machine. She attempts to symbolize Paterson's problems in its current political struggle between the Democratic machine and its "reform" Republican Mayor Kramer. Her narrative illustrates the incompetence and even cynicism which has marked reform politics in the big cities. The election and re-election of Paterson's reform mayor is far from the affirmation of the city's spirit that Norwood wants to portray...
...About Paterson is in many ways a politically naive work: Norwood chooses to treat Kramer's 1969 re-election as a tribute to the city's spirit. "Paterson had every reason to seek an easy way out; but the city did not choose to do so," she writes. "Underneath its hates and fears and confusions, the city's fiber ran strong." But one wants to know more about where the votes came from that kept Kramer in office, and how he managed to get them to the polls...
Crippled as it is, Paterson cannot solve its own problems. Urban renewal, the blind arm of the federal bureaucracy, cannot save it--Kramer's experience with HUD, which Norwood documents, demonstrates the insensitivity of federal aid to cities. But revenue sharing, which put money in the hands of the people who have already failed to manage the city, is not the answer either. We leave Paterson in confusion, clinging, like Sam Patch, to a belief in the spirit of a city that has persevered...