Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.C.L.A. study of the 1965 Watts riots found that it was not just the poorest Negroes who were riot-prone. "A significant number of Negroes, successful or unsuccessful, are emotionally prepared for violence as a strategy or solution to end the problem of segregation, exploitation and subordination," said the report. For those who are "better off," it added, resentment may be vented by joining a riot...
...Suddenly the police dispatcher's voice crackled over the radio and Girardin instinctively tensed. "Watch out for stolen car," the dispatcher advised. Girardin's well-wrinkled face was wreathed in a smile. "We are just about back to normal," he said. "All we need now is a report of a domestic quarrel...
...McCarthy, "then we can decide what we want to do next." In three nights of rioting, New York's cops fired only 50 to 75 rounds, in return had 150 to 200 directed at them. One reason for such economy is that Police Commissioner Howard Leary requires a report on every bullet used...
...last year), research staffs and offices of their own. In Illinois, where lawmakers use corridors as offices, a new $18 million legislative office building will soon be built. But improvements come slowly. State governments are more often characterized by "stagnation and inertia," says the C.E.D. report, than by drive and initiative. Unless they are "renovated in far-reaching ways," it concludes, "their policy and functional roles will wither away...
...will return soon after the elections, and will probably present his report sometime in November. Copies will go to the Defense Department and to Senate subcommittees concerned with the Vietnam problem...