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Inside a Riker's Island Prison theater in New York City last week, the players were setting up on stage. The audience entered in rowdy chaos-175 women, mostly black and Puerto Rican, dressed in sleeveless, hemless shifts, and monitored by hefty black female guards in starchy white shirts. A loudspeaker voice cut through the clamor to introduce the program: "'The Family' started behind the walls and it is now functioning outside the wall. And every member is a professional. Today we will see Straight from the Ghetto...
Friday morning I got on the phone to Larry Casanova, a Puerto Rican lawyer in my club whom I recently placed in Mayor Beame's office as a special assistant. Mr. Casanova heard the problem and reacted quickly. He called the landlord and told him he would send a building inspector to Mrs. Negron's apartment if the hot water was not turned on within the day. Two hours after Mr. Casanova's phone call, Mrs. Negron came to the parish to report that she now had hot water...
...have been able to use my influence to bring additional services to my constituents. Last year, I won election to the City Council in a tri-borough district. I really have no long range ambitions and have repeatedly said that I will retire from politics when the Puerto Rican community develops capable political leaders with a deep concern for the people. To date, such leaders have not emerged. Herman Badillo is perhaps the most articulate spokesman in the community, but Badillo had failed repeatedly to get involved with any grass roots problems. Badillo is what I call "a press release...
...sure, all the legal and diplomatic niceties are often observed. The exceptions sometimes occur because the final decision to extradite lies not with the judiciary, but with the executive. Even if the Costa Rican or Bahamian courts had upheld the U.S. application for Vesco, the executive branch of either country could have overruled or simply ignored the judicial extradition finding. The same is true in the U.S. No matter what the courts say, the Secretary of State has the authority to refuse to give up the fugitive...
Throughout the city, his election was greeted with a certain relief. There was no excitement over the election--the real outcome was decided on June 26, when Beame assured his victory by defeating Herman Badilio, a Puerto Rican congressman from the Bronx in the Democratic Party primary runoff. The conflict between a Puerto Rican and a Jew was a bitter one, stirring up charges or racism coming from both camps. By November, most New Yorkers seemed glad that their choice had been made over the summer, when not too many people were watching, and when many voters were away...