Word: philadelphia
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...gradually shrinking in population. The other is relatively young and still growing. Yet Philadelphia (pop. 1,788,000) and Houston (pop. 1,442,000), the nation's fourth and fifth largest cities, share a common problem. Their police forces have earned evidently deserved reputations for brutality, especially among minority citizens...
...Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They...
...Ortiz case seems to be all too typical in Philadelphia. Police have also been accused of severely beating a black gas-station owner, a white college student and a British musician. In July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes...
When the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate of Mission, Kans., was struggling to sell to newspapers a witty but amateurishly drawn comic strip transplanted from the Yale campus daily, Philadelphia's Bulletin was among the first big papers to give the new entry a try. Seven years, a Pulitzer Prize and 400 newspaper subscribers later, Doonesbury had become one of the industry's-and the Bulletin's-hottest features. Last month Universal abruptly abandoned its old customer and, after an acrimonious court battle, gave Doonesbury to a higher bidder; archrival Philadelphia Inquirer...
...fear of alienating readers. That preference for old, familiar faces is becoming easier to satisfy as newspapers, prodded by antitrust actions, gradually give up the broad exclusivity they have long insisted upon. Universal, for instance, had to guarantee the Bulletin that no other paper within 100 miles of Philadelphia could run Doonesbury; switching to the more permissive Inquirer opened the strip to 26 other potential newspaper customers in the area...