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...ghetto rioter and the hippie. One is protesting that he does not have, the other is turning away from what he has. Future historians might wonder why they didn't exchange places...
...U.A.W. would be available in their spare time to help repair the ravages. General Motors offered its "skills, facilities and resources" to help rebuild the city. To be sure, some would just as soon see it remain in ruins. "We'll burn this place down again," said one rioter. "We'll burn down this whole stinking town." With money and muscle, Detroit is now staking its future on the proposition that most of its people-black as well as white-would much rather build than burn...
Since he developed the voiceprint system at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1962, Kersta has worked with law enforcement agencies on more than 100 cases involving voice identification. His voiceprints were used to convict a rioter in the Watts area of Los Angeles who, with his back to the camera, admitted to a TV interviewer that he had set fire to five different buildings. Last year voiceprints were admitted as evidence in a jury trial in New York...
...first experience reporting violence. For nearly seven years I have followed the development of the Negro revolution in all corners of America. Now a Negro airborne sergeant kidded me about being safer in Viet Nam than I was during the Harlem riots (when I was knocked out by a rioter's brick), the Birmingham and Jackson demonstrations, and in Watts...
While being in touch would not assure New York or any city of trouble-free weeks ahead, it was a psychologically important part of the battle. Said Martin Luther King last week: "In Watts last year, I asked a rioter what he had gained from his smashing and looting and killing. He told me, 'We made them pay attention to us.' " Really paying attention means, as John Lindsay has shown, trying to do something about housing, sanitation, schools and jobs. Only through responsible and responsive public action to meet the Negroes' needs can white officialdom effectively inspire...