Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would assume from the tenor of your article that 53.3% of the voting public of L.A. is racist. The precinct analysis reveals that over 95% of the Negroes in predominantly Negro areas voted Bradley while the Whitey areas voted Yorty by only 65%. Who are the racists? STUART VON Los Angeles...
...campaign and, in fact, had not even met Nixon until the day of the party. The traditional political types were not invited, and the guest list was limited almost entirely to the Duke's old friends. Most of them are musicians who could not carry a precinct...
...artful jailhouse lawyer among the losers and small fry of criminality, James Earl Ray had plenty of opportunities to learn the wisdom of keeping his mouth shut. Playing D. & D. (deaf and dumb) with cops was a lesson taught in the quiet back rooms of precinct houses. And until he achieved "the big time" in Memphis, the killer of Martin Luther King never merited the attention of policemen who relied on brains rather than bullying...
...crime analysts in the Washington police department, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is just an address-if a rather important one-in the city's Third Precinct. In addition to the White House, the Third includes the State Department, the Executive Office Building and several other bastions of the Federal Government. To judge from the police blotter, it is a pretty dangerous neighborhood: according to latest figures, crime there has jumped 26.2% in a single year. There were almost 400 crimes recorded in that period-62 of them involving at least the threat of bodily harm. In fact, crime...
...visibility to the people who count. As in center cities across the nation, crime in capital ghettos has been a problem for years, and it is still the ghetto that suffers worst: the 84% crime increase in Washington's mostly Negro Navy Yard district makes the White House precinct sound positively safe, which...