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...witnessed campus turmoil down to the high school level. Mexican-Americans have been asserting their rights with increasing militance. Two extremist black organizations, US and the Panthers, have been feuding with each other as well as with whites. The promising community relations program promoted by former Police Chief Thomas Reddin has all but disintegrated recently, stimulating new tensions between police and the ghettos...
Yorty seized on Reddin's resignation after the April vote as evidence that if Bradley won, police morale would be impaired. Reddin, who took a lucrative job as a television newscaster, seemed to support Yorty's stand while interviewing the two candidates on TV just before the runoff. His questioning of Bradley was harsh; to the mayor, Reddin was uncommonly sweet. Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him. "To elect Tom Bradley," he said at one point, "would be an invitation to violence in this city." Burt Lancaster campaigned for Bradley; Yorty called the actor...
Battle Plans. The police are moving in a number of ways to prevent violence. Programs of varying size and efficacy to improve police relations with the ghettos have been started in most cities. Los Angeles' hard-line chief Tom Reddin has left police work for television. Recruiting, particularly of black policemen, has been stepped up. Washington has added 500 men to its 3,600-member force and plans to add another 500. One hundred and forty of the latest 1,000 graduates of the New York Police Academy are black...
Electronic Addiction. At the end of the premiere, Station Manager Doug Finley found Rookie Reddin "so good" that he cried ("Well, maybe not cried, but I certainly lumped up"). Reddin was more straight-shooting. Before the show he had quipped: "I believe each man should start at the top of his chosen profession." Afterwards he said, "You know, it's not as easy as it looks." Despite two weeks of video-taped dry runs, he did not transmit the Cronkite-like "casualness" that he had promised. His normally easy Irish smile switched on when it should have been turned...
...runs two hours on one station), KTLA had fallen into fifth place after a rival station wooed away its top announcer, George Putnam, an archconservative who never fails to put America first. The salary that won George was $300,000 (Walter Cronkite earns something over $200,000). Even if Reddin does not improve over his shaky shakedown, he has an escalator contract guaranteeing him $150,000 a year within five years...